(Re) encuentros
The first cycle of the lab, (Re)Encuentros, was a poetry project in which young writers addressed “ancestors” — real or imagined — to tell them about their present lives. By imagining the lives of grandparents and great-grandparents, participants used poetry to weave together past and present, blending intimate details with broader questions about belonging, migration, language, and identity.
Across all its projects, Voces en movimiento focuses less on perfection and more on connection. Through prompts on memory, family, and everyday life, participants link their own stories to wider community and intergenerational histories. Editorial intervention is intentionally minimal: we accompany the process with care, making only small edits while honoring each author’s voice and intention. You may notice “errors” in these texts; we invite you to read them as traces of a living learning process—and to celebrate the courage, creativity, and perseverance behind every piece.
About the Authors of (Re)encuentros
The authors of this first collective creation in Spanish are students from an intermediate Spanish course. This group was marked by its cultural diversity, mutual respect, and active participation in discussions on Latin American culture, social realities, and many other topics.
What we share here is the result of those conversations and of the students’ family stories. The work is truly collective: students collaborated closely throughout the process.
The nineteen young people in this group come from different majors and academic paths, yet they met in the same classroom—brought together by different motivations—and brought this first project to life, which they decided to call Re(encuentros) (Re-encounters).
Resumen:
En la necesidad de encontrarse con sí misma, una mañana, la narradora abre la puerta y se encuentra cara a cara con recuerdos intergeneracionales y transnacionales que le dan pistas sobre los orígenes de su familia.
Al dar un paso fuera de su vivienda, una luz que la ciega al principio la ilumina y la lleva al pasado en un recorrido que empieza con sus bisabuelos y termina en el futuro.
¿Es un sueño?, ¿es la realidad? No puede determinarlo, pero las experiencias recogidas en este recorrido la ayudan a definir con mayor claridad su presente.