In Defense of NaNoWriMo
Excited about my epic new undertaking, I sat down and wrote the title at the top of the page...
Literature
Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá
My first semester teaching, I had a student who made me feel like I was looking at a mirror. She was a young woman, a language broker, a first-generation Mexican-American with family who lives in the same state in Mexico where my Abuela was born. She longed for Mexico the way I long for Mexico.
What to Read When You Just Can’t Read
As a writer I love to read but sometimes I just can’t. There are the usual time
constraints and an attention span that’s been compromised by my phone. But
mental health
A Second Look
“And you should love me, because I deserve to be loved.”
That one line in the 2018 film A Wrinkle In Time bothered me enough to write a
whole article [https://curator-magazine.ghost.
Only One Heart
> “There is only one heart in my body, have mercy / on me”
(“One Heart,” Walking on Martha’s Vineyard)
Franz Wright, the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, grew up shrouded in a legacy of