Life is a mass of details and distractions. Personal essays and memoirs are selections and arrangements of those details. Writing from memory involves leaving out the irrelevant or distracting and focusing on the essential. Explore what form is, then build it with blocks of carefully selected details. Read two short essays and write short pieces to generate new work.
Gloria Trevi, the groundbreaking Mexican pop singer-songwriter, electrified Freeman Coliseum on Saturday, bringing feminist lyrics, scintillating dance moves and an array of…