With a fruitful mixture of experiences – from performing at festivals such as Lowlands, to teaching secondary art education – you can trust Yentl van Stokkum to caringly feed you with compelling stories. A careful composer of theatre texts, radio plays, poems and essays, Yentl investigates the delicate line between an array of binaries, such as the self and the other, incantation and poem or admiration and love. As one of the driving bodies behind the poetry Instagram account Poëzieiseendaad providing sensuous peeks into Dutch poems, Yentl’s luminous devotion to poetry is clear. Her poetry collection Ik zeg Emily (2021) is a wondrous testament to this passion in its alluring approach to the essential human emotions of adoration and admiration.