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April 27, 2015April 29, 2015  by Marilyn Bousquin

The Art of Writing Memoir: “A Sound from the Heart”

This past weekend, while writing a segment in my memoir about my son in the context of my larger family history, I felt a stirring in my chest, i.e., in my heart chakra. As I wrote, the stirring became a swirl that expanded through my chest cavity. When this energetic swirl began to buzz, I […]

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April 13, 2015April 14, 2015  by Marilyn Bousquin

[Audio] Marilyn Reads Her Memoir Essay “The Bruise”

One of my many highlights from this year’s AWP conference, which I attended last week in Minneapolis, was Under the Gum Tree magazine’s reading on Friday evening. I was honored to read my memoir essay “The Bruise,” which appears in River Teeth: A Journal of  Nonfiction Narrative. It occurred to me during the reading that, because […]

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