The day after the What No One Ever Tells You book launch, Matt and Alvin enjoy/labor over a piece from the YMCA Oasis Daylight Center that afters the poem REVERB by poet Robert Rottet. Matt shares updates from UW’s collaboration with the Washington State Arts Commission and HIDDEN TRUTH, the upcoming showcase from the Migrant Leaders Club.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.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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Matt shares a poem from the Skagit Juvenile Detention site, aftering a poem by Mahmoud Darwish. He and Alvin discuss confronting one’s own outcome and cause-effect. Matt shares about UW’s newest teaching writer Laurie Parker and UW’s Anthology What No One Ever Tells You being launched at the Mount Vernon City Library on February 21. 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.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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Matt and Alvin wrestle with a piece from the YMCA Oasis Daylight Center. They discuss hope, despair, rebellion, and protest. Matt shares updates about the anthology What No One Ever Tells You, the incredible On Being podcast on NPR, FilmVerse now underway in its second year, the support of Red Door Thrift Shop and Christ Episcopal Church, the Washington Arts Council, and the upcoming AWP Conference in Portland. 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.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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Today’s piece of writing is the Foreword to What No One Ever Tells You, Underground Writing’s first anthology of student writing. Playwright and UW friend, Quiara Alegría Hudes, wrote the piece we’ve titled, “Did You Ever Feel Invisible?”

Matt and Alvin talk about the anthology, give a brief update on UW’s Teaching Writers, and present music by the Marimba Band at LaVenture Middle School, led by Amy McFeely.

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
ArtsWA (Washington State Arts Commission)
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Marimba
LaVenture Middle School
Walt Hampton, Composer  

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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“The Salish Sea” is a poem that “afters” works by Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes. Matt and Alvin discuss the poem—which comes from our Skagit County Community Justice Center site—the Salish Sea, and other related topics.

Matt updates listeners about the release of UW’s first anthology, What No One Ever Tells You—just in time for the start of 2019!

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
The Salish Sea
Walt Whitman  
Langston Hughes

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 episode features writing from our Juvenile Detention and YMCA Oasis Daylight Center sites. Matt Malyon and producer Alvin Shim discuss how the writings engage with and expand the title of What No One Ever Tells You, our first anthology of student writing. The book will be released in December 2018 and is supported in part by a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission.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.

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If you listened to this week’s catch-up podcast the day that it was published, you were probably confused. We had an error on our end uploading the correct file, which has now been fixed. Matt provides some detail on the mix-up.We thank you for your patience, for listening, and for keeping in touch with Underground Writing.

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Matt reads from a piece by a juvenile detention student, after Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem. He and Alvin celebrate the courage of voices from the underground. Matt shares about UW’s new non-profit status, thanks board members, and gives an update from our friend Quiara Alegría Hudes’ show Miss You Like Hell. 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 YouWhat's a "kite"?Jimmy Santiago BacaMiss You Like Hell | New York TripUnderground 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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UW Director Matt Malyon chats with Producer Alvin Shim about “I Am Waiting,” a piece of student writing from our site at the Skagit County Community Justice Center. They share stories of waiting in incarceration, bearing the lack of options that the justice system offers, and the individual posture of waiting vs. action. Matt reads from a letter of advocacy regarding youth offenders being tried as adults.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 - Underground Writing’s first anthology, available December 2018The Seattle Times, "Seismic Shift . . ."NPR - The Teenage BrainUnderground 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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Jennifer Bradbury joins Matt and Alvin for this special Catch-Up Podcast. In addition to being a UW Teaching Writer and the creator of the week-long intensive this summer at Juvenile Detention, Jen is the author of five books and more to come. She teaches English at Burlington-Edison High School and lives in Burlington, Washington with her family.

We recorded in her classroom during free period, discussing Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds and the juvenile detention students that responded to it. Jen catches us up on a bit of the publishing process and Matt shares about UW’s fall newsletter, available now.

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.