Memoirs

WritersCorps: A Look Under the Hood

By Judith Tannenbaum

Beto’s is the first check-in. He reports on his poetry classes at San Francisco’s ISA High School, and then pauses. “Yesterday, a girl stopped by the library to see me at lunch time. She showed me one of her poems, and while I was reading it — my eyes on the page — she looked down at the table and listed everything that’s messed up in the world and her life. She told me she’s not sure she wants to keep living.”

For the Love of Cars

By Chrissy Anderson-Zavala

Kenny loves cars. Muscle cars, new cars, old cars, classic cars, the cars on the street, the cars of his imagination, space cars, robot cars, cars with their own planet of cars, mean cars, nice cars, big cars, tiny cars, skinny cars, but most of all, Kenny loves race cars.