Monica Guerra has attended the first edition of the International Multilingual Creative Writing Conference in New York between the 13th and the 15th of November 2024 where she conducted the panel “Land and Identity” and the reading from her latest bilingual book “A ogni latitudine / At every latitude” (Il Vicolo, 2024) for the New York Poetry Festival.
The International Multilingual Creative Writing Conference is a platform to celebrate the rich diversity of human experience across cultures and a unique opportunity to foster intercultural collaboration with artists, editors, media outlets, and publishers. As a discipline, creative writing programs are now present across the Americas, Europe and other regions of the world. Universities, NGOs, private groups, and individual practitioners contributed to this growth. However, a multilingual approach is critical to unlocking the potential of intercultural cross-pollination and collaboration between practitioners with diverse cultural backgrounds. The City College of New York— Division of Interdisciplinary Studies (CCNY CWE), The Americas Poetry Festival of New York (TAPFNY), Instituto Cervantes New York, and the University of La Rioja join forces to organize this conference.
The conference included great media partners like The Academy of American Poets, The Latino Book Review, and Hostos Review. A brainchild of City College of New York, poet and professor Carlos Aguasaco, the conference expands the horizons reached by the ten Multilingual Poetry Festivals he has co-organized with poets Yrene Santos, and Carlos Velásquez Torres.
