Posted on May 23, 2013 In class this term, we explored a variety of ways to write based on interviews. Here, Miriam profiles a co-worker at the Clavijero Cultural Center in Morelia, the practicum site where she worked as part of her degree program. Lizbeth returns to...
Everyone in the workshop conducted a variety of interviews, some with family members. They often discovered hidden dimensions of lives they thought they knew. Sometimes those individual stories connected to larger social histories, as in Dhilery’s story of her Uncle...
Posted in Uncategorized Writing from the “Telling Lives” workshop by Maribel Barcena Lopez Posted on May 10, 2013 Maribel Barcena Lopez by Talía De Niz Pérez Negrón Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Maribel is an American girl with a golden Mexican heart...
Posted on May 5, 2013 In class, we often use poetry as inspiration. One week, we read Brian Doyle’s wonderful prose poem “What Matters,” which led to students’ epiphanies about the marvels of their daily lives. (For Doyle’s original, see...
Introduction to Writing from “Telling Lives: Reading, Writing, and Recording Life Stories” Before I arrived to teach a creative nonfiction class at La Universidad Latina de América in Morelia, friends on both sides of the border suggested that I’d have trouble using...
