The Underground Writing Podcast

This piece comes from our site at Skagit County’s Juvenile Detention. UW Teaching Writer Suzanne brought in a poem from a Chinese factory worker. Matt and Alvin discuss protest, despair, hope, and transformation. Links of Interest: What No One Ever Tells YouIron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker PoetryIn the Words of China's WorkersUnderground 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. A NOTE PASSED FROM AN INMATE TO AN INMATE IN ANOTHER CELL OR TO A GUARD B. UNDERGROUND WRITING’S AUDIO ZINE FEATURING STUDENT WRITING1. Dear Self by Jay 2. Broken by Rocky3. Lost Boy Rich by Richard4. Border of Paradise by Rocky5. There Have Been So Many Times by Ray6. This City is a Map of Pain by Jay7. Goodbye to My Addiction From a Psychotic Poet by Nick8. Reconciliation by Skylar9. A Letter for Hope by Nick10. Brain Spill by SkylarUnderground 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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Matt and Alvin meet with Migrant Leaders Club students to discuss the piece OUR STORY from the collaborative anthology WHEN THE DUST RISES. 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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Matt and Alvin read a piece from the Skagit County Community Justice Center that chronicles a whole life: yearning, passion, destruction, hope, and hesitation. This piece afters a poem of the same title by Anna Kamienska (1920-1986).

This episode is the first using our own equipment, purchased with support by Red Door Thrift Shop of Anacortes, Washington.

LINKS OF INTEREST:

Anna KamieńskaAnna Kamieńska - Notebooks 1Anna Kamieńska - Notebooks 2Anna Kamieńska - Notebooks 3Red Door Thrift ShopWhen the Dust RisesChapbooksBlack Heron PressEmancipated Stories

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.

We’re back! Matt and Alvin witness a short piece from the Community Justice Center of Skagit County. 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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Chris Hoke, UW Teaching Writer, shares recent student writing from the workshops at the Skagit County Community Justice Center. Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.LINKS OF INTEREST:Rainer Maria RilkeRaymond CarverWriters in the School (Seattle)SUMMER RECOMMENDED READING:MemoirAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City - Nick FlynnThe Ticking is the Bomb - Nick FlynnShort Stories and NovellasBirds of America - Lorrie MooreSeparate Flights - Andre Dubus NovelThe Fishermen - Chigozie ObiomaNon-Fiction & EssaysBlindspot - Teju ColePoetry as Survival - Gregory OrrPoetryThe Complete English Works - George HerbertThe Lice - W.S. MerwinPoems from Ish River Country: Collected Poems & Translations - Robert SundUncommon Prayer - Kimberly JohnsonUnderground 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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What has grown into a generative collaboration began when we first met in June 2015 with Janice Blackmore, founder and advisor for the Mount Vernon Migrant Leaders Club. Underground Writing was a few weeks out from its official launch and we were meeting with Janice to talk about the club becoming our second site. Given the fact that one of the primary goals of the club is having students tell their stories, the idea of facilitated writing workshops interested her immediately. The dialogue continued over a number of months and we officially launched our site with the club in early October 2015.Janice joins Matt and Alvin in the studio to remember MLC’s earlier days and give us an update on the future. Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.LINKS OF INTEREST: Migrant Leaders Club Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Northern Washington through literary engagement and personal restoration.

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This piece comes from the Migrant Leaders Club of the Mount Vernon School District. Matt and Alvin find common ground on themes of isolation, loneliness, hatred, and division.

Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.

LINKS OF INTEREST:

What No One Ever Tells You
Migrant Leaders Club of Mount Vernon School District
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Emancipated Stories
Zoe Mullery and Brothers in Pen - Our Podcast
Zoe Mullery and Brothers in Pen - Program
FilmVerse

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. A NOTE PASSED FROM AN INMATE TO AN INMATE IN ANOTHER CELL OR TO A GUARD B. UNDERGROUND WRITING’S AUDIO ZINE FEATURING STUDENT WRITING

This episode features six pieces of writing from Brothers in Pen, the creative writing class at San Quentin State Prison.

• Kenny Brydon, short story, "A Course in Reconciliation"

• Emile DeWeaver, memoir, "Crumbling Brick Dreams" from Brothers in Pen: The Ninth Annual Public Reading

• Rahsaan Thomas, short story, "Recycled"

• Udukobraye Pela, short story, "My Momma's Baby" from Pens Up, Don't Shoot

• Michael Zell, short story, "Wisdom Exhortation" from Brothers in Pen: The Ninth Annual Public Reading

• Kevin Sawyer, short story, "The Bus Driver," from Brothers in Pen: The Eleventh Annual Public Reading (not yet published)

Links of Interest:

Brothers in Pen
William James Association

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Chris Hoke is a Gang Pastor and Prisoner Reentry Organizer as the Founder and Director of Underground Ministries. He joins Matt and Alvin in the studio to discuss what he’s encountered in his almost four years as a Teaching Writer at Underground Writing. Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying details of the students we work with.LINKS OF INTEREST:What No One Ever Tells YouChris HokeRainer Maria RilkeJellyfishMigrant Leaders ClubAldo Leopold Martin Espada Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Northern Washington through literary engagement and personal restoration.

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