Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas

In Jewish tradition, stories and symbols, such as golems and dybbuks, reflect history and culture. Join poet Susan Comninos in an Immersion that explores folklore, family stories, and cultural memory to inspire your writing. You’ll craft poems that blend personal history with timeless myth, honoring your creative inheritance while using contemporary voices. Engage in a circle of Jewish creativity, connecting the past and present through writing.

Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas

In Jewish tradition, stories and symbols, such as golems and dybbuks, reflect history and culture. Join poet Susan Comninos in an Immersion that explores folklore, family stories, and cultural memory to inspire your writing. You’ll craft poems that blend personal history with timeless myth, honoring your creative inheritance while using contemporary voices. Engage in a circle of Jewish creativity, connecting the past and present through writing.

Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas

In Jewish tradition, stories and symbols, such as golems and dybbuks, reflect history and culture. Join poet Susan Comninos in an Immersion that explores folklore, family stories, and cultural memory to inspire your writing. You’ll craft poems that blend personal history with timeless myth, honoring your creative inheritance while using contemporary voices. Engage in a circle of Jewish creativity, connecting the past and present through writing.

Seeding Family-based Poems with Golems, Dybukks and Shpilkas

In Jewish tradition, stories and symbols, such as golems and dybbuks, reflect history and culture. Join poet Susan Comninos in an Immersion that explores folklore, family stories, and cultural memory to inspire your writing. You’ll craft poems that blend personal history with timeless myth, honoring your creative inheritance while using contemporary voices. Engage in a circle of Jewish creativity, connecting the past and present through writing.

The Creative Fire of Folklore

Three people sit around a campfire near the shore at dusk, with the sea and trees in the background.

Use your family or community’s sayings in poems that explore how the past informs the present. Come prepared to have fun, while trying your hand at techniques for folding both folklore and imagery into poetry that’s at once individual and universal.

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