Leaf by Leaf / Line by Line

The workshop- makers

• Pauline Füg

  Pauline Füg (*1983) from Fürth is an author, poetry slammer and psychologist. She has received several awards for her work, including the Kulturpreis Bayern (2011), the Kulturförderpreis der Stadt Würzburg (2015), the Literaturstipendium des Freistaats Bayern (2020) and the Anerkennungspreis des PEN/ Akademie für gesprochenes Wort (2021). In 2022, she was named an artist of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region, followed by the City of Nuremberg Culture Prize in 2023. Füg passes on her experience in writing workshops and creative coaching sessions and is committed to promoting young literary talent. She also regularly organizes literary events. In her interdisciplinary work, she combines poetry and spoken word texts with electronic beats in the project “großraumdichten” and works with sound artist Burkard Schmidl on installations that explore the variation of lines of poetry. Her second volume of poetry, “nach der illusion” was published by Lektora Verlag in fall 2021.

• Rachit Sharma

  Rachit is a poet and the founder of Dillipoetry, a literary platform known for its thematic & experimental poetry walks, workshops & programmes. He is also the creative head at Youth Alliance, where he designs and facilitates transformational leadership journeys of (un) learning, healing, and enquiry for young social leaders from across the country. Rachit has spent a decade working in the social development sector, working across diverse social issues. His poetry and other writings have been published by 20+ literary platforms and anthologies. Rachit has performed at the BBC Contains Strong Language, the largest poetry festival in the UK, The French Institute India, Alliance française, etc. He also appeared & performed on BBC Radio 3’s popular show, The Verb. 

• Dillipoetry

  Dillipoetry is a literary platform dedicated to de-pedestalizing poetry—making it accessible, experiential, and embodied. Over the past two years, Dillipoetry has curated and hosted more than 60 poetry walks and workshops on themes such as the climate emergency, queer ecology and intimacies, poetry of resistance, romanticism, identity, and our relationship with the natural world.
  
  In this time, Dillipoetry has cultivated an intimate community of over a hundred poets across the city, creating spaces of beauty, reflection, and dialogue—spaces where poetry becomes a way of witnessing, questioning, and reimagining the world.
  
  At the heart of our work lies a recurring inquiry: What does it mean to be human in this time, age, and politics? Through poetry, we seek not only to articulate this question but to live it—together.