Kenneth Prestininzi served as director of the playwriting program at the Latin American Writers Workshop, where Fornés taught in 1997 and 1998. Here, Prestininzi draws upon their own experiences of witnessing and experiencing the provocation of Fornés’s teaching modality while immersed in the communal intensity of a residential writing retreat in Mexico. As it shifts between the present and past tense, Prestininzi’s contribution emerges as both an exercise in experimental memoir and also as a work of archival excavation. This dual temporal register vividly captures both the context and the experience of María Irene Fornés’s galvanizing pedagogy, particularly its capacity to stir what Prestinzinzi describes as the “unpredictability of our imaginations.”