The Underground Writing Podcast

• Hadestown
  
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton
  
• Myth of Icarus
  
• Club Icarus by Matthew W. Miller
  

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.

Note: As you know, friends, our program is focused on providing creative writing workshops that promote writing, reading, self-discovery, and voice amplification in a variety of community settings.  Because of the current health threats presented by the coronavirus to our students and the Underground Writing family of workers and volunteers, we are suspending all workshop activity for the time being.  In doing so, we are following county, state, and national mandates for precautionary measures.  A variety of Underground Writing projects and administrative functions will continue via independent tasks and meetings conducted via e-mail and video conference.  We will keep you updated as the days and weeks progress.  Thank you for your interest and impact on our students and the Underground Writing community.  Keep listening.  Keep healthy and safe.

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Susanne Antonetta, UW Teaching Writer and editor of the Bellingham Review, shares student writing from the workshops at Skagit County Community Justice Center.

1. I Have to Swallow the Time by C
   
2. Ode to My Socks by Robin
   
3. I Have Been Known by Alison
   
4. I Have Been Known by Hannah
   
5. I Have Been Known by anonymous
   
6. Dear ICE by Adriana
   
7. Dear System by Robert
   
8. I Have Been Known by Marcus
   
9. I Have Been Known by Patrick
   

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.

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We’re back for the first podcast of 2020. Matt and Alvin revisit the numbers from 2019 and give you a heads up of what’s planned for 2020, so mark your calendars.

Thanks to the Rick Epting Foundation for the Arts and ArtsWA for supporting our efforts.

Talk About Me, by Yesica Solano is available now

Upcoming Events:

Dear America chapbook
To be published in early 2020

Finding Home: A Foster Youth Story, produced by UW Teaching Writer Laurie Parker
Thursday, March 12, 2020 at the Lincoln Theatre

Migrant Leaders Club reading
Saturday, April 18, 2020 at Lopez Book Shop on Lopez Island

Hidden Truth, by the Migrant Leaders Club, produced by UW Teaching Writer Jennifer Morison Hendrix
Thursday, April 23, 2020 at the Lincoln Theatre

Letters to a Young Inmate initiative
May 2020

FilmVerse screening
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at the Lincoln Theatre

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When people ask, "What's Underground Writing?" the quick answer is that we're a creative writing program for at-risk communities. One of the follow up questions we sometimes receive: "How does it all work financially?" We think this is a great year-end question! Matt and Alvin discuss these aspects of the organization, and invite listeners to partner with Underground Writing so as to continue and help sustain its transformative impact.

Partner with Underground Writing

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.

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“His Cup” is a piece of student writing from the Skagit Recovery Community Site. Matt gives context on this site and he and Alvin discuss grief and mourning, as we carry the items of our deceased loved ones.

LINKS OF INTEREST:

Brigid Collins Family Support Center

Habibi, retail pop-up shop in Mount Vernon, Washington—in collaboration with Skagit River Poetry Foundation and Voices of the Children

Talk About Me, upcoming chapbook from local poet and UW’s intern Yesica Solano. Hear some pieces and a short interview on KITE 5 with Yesica Solano, parts 1 and 2

What No One Ever Tells You

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.

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KITE:

A. Muia, UW Teaching Writer, shares student writing from the workshops at Skagit County Juvenile Detention.

1. Where I’m From by E
   
2. I Am From by J
   
3. I Belong Here by A
   
4. Visitation Hours by B
   
5. One Medicine I’ve Taken by M
   
6. I Feel Like a Loaded Gun by J
   
7. A Painting by Vincent Van Gogh by C
   

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.

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Habibi is Arabic for beloved, darling. It's also the holiday pop-up market in downtown Mount Vernon sponsored by Voices of the Children, Skagit River Poetry Foundation, and Underground Writing. This short episode has the directors of those local organizations and Habibi's Featured Artist Asil Jabr around the table at the pop-up retail space. 

Features: 

Asil Jabr and Aaron Wagner: Voices of the Children // 

Molly McNulty: Skagit River Poetry Foundation // 

Matt Malyon: Underground Writing

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Julie Ryan and UW Director Matt attended graduate school together in Vancouver, B.C. Earlier this year, Julie reached out to Matt from her English classroom in Dunedin, New Zealand in response to The Underground Writing Podcast episode about our 2018 week-long intensive at juvenile detention. She has since started a creative writing group at St. Hilda's Collegiate School and is with us in the studio to discuss literary education and cultural shifts.

kia ora, Maori greeting

St. Hilda’s Collegiate School in Dunedin, New Zealand

International Literacy Association: 2019 Conference in New Orleans

Equity in Education

Renée Watson, author of Piecing Me Together and Some Places More Than Others

David Kirkland, Executive Director of NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools

Hamish Brewer, author of RELENTLESS: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm

Jennifer Bradbury, Teaching Writer, on the Underground Writing Podcast

Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds

Tomas Tranströmer, poet

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.

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