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- JourneyingWe read "Journeying," from the juvenile detention site. This is a piece in response to exploring The Odyssey, Homer's epic poem. Matt and Alvin talk about the transformation that might be produced after an intense series of adventures, struggles, and danger. UW UPDATES:Underground Writing's 2018 newsletter is published, written by Teaching Writer A. Muia.Week-long intensive at juvenile detention is complete. New site at Mount Vernon's Community Justice Center to begin September 19, 2018. Hear more about this site on episode 6, titled, "The Book Was Fat and Big."
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21 min - DreamsThe student writing “Dreams” comes from the Migrant Leaders Club site, exploring the gap that interrupts our aspirations, hopes, and goals. Matt gives updates on the week-long intensive coming up at juvenile detention and the Community Spotlight episode featuring Randi at Oasis Daylight Shelter.
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17 min - Community Spotlight: Randi Breuer at Oasis Daylight CenterThis is the first Community Spotlight episode of the podcast. We speak with Randi Breuer, the lead at the Oasis Daylight Center and site host for Underground Writing. Randi speaks about how the center operates, what the strategy is in serving at-risk youth in the community, and the role of creative writing in personal restoration.
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11 min - I, Too, Sing AmericaStudent Writing from the YMCA Oasis Daylight Center, after Langston Hughes' I Too. Matt and Alvin talk about the courageous nature of declarative works that these pieces have in common. Matt discusses how Hughes took the lead from Walt Whitman's work, cataloguing the nation. What is a voice? What is a country? UW updates: -Upcoming week-long intensive at the juvenile detention site, based on the book Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, led by teaching writer Jennifer Bradbury. -Community Highlight podcast coming up, profiling YMCA Oasis Daylight Center site host Randi Breuer.
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20 min - I, Too, Sing America *Extended Cut*
Student Writing from the YMCA Oasis Daylight Center, after Langston Hughes' I Too. Matt and Alvin talk about the courageous nature of declarative works that these pieces have in common. Matt discusses how Hughes took the lead from Walt Whitman's work, cataloguing the nation. What is a voice? What is a country?
UW updates:
- Upcoming week-long intensive at the juvenile detention site, based on the book Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, led by teaching writer Jennifer Bradbury.
- Community Highlight podcast coming up, profiling YMCA Oasis Daylight Center site host Randi Breuer.
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28 min - The Book Was Fat And Big
Student writing this week, "The Book Was Fat And Big" comes from the juvenile detention site. Matt and Alvin discuss how this piece of dream-vision literature joins the ranks of Paul Valéry, Coleridge, and John of Patmos. UW writing workshops often introduce poems and invite students' response to "after" them.
Matt gives an update on a future teaching site: the Skagit County Community Justice Center. They discuss logistical tasks and the Justice Center in the context of Mount Vernon's former jail.
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 UW anthology
The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
Paul Valéry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book of Revelation
Skagit County Community Justice Center
Peter La Grand music
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16 min - The Book Was Fat And Big *Extended Cut*
Student writing this week, "The Book Was Fat And Big" comes from the juvenile detention site. Matt and Alvin discuss how this piece of dream-vision literature joins the ranks of Paul Valéry, Coleridge, and John of Patmos. UW writing workshops often introduce poems and invite students' response to "after" them.
Matt gives an update on a future teaching site: the Skagit County Community Justice Center. They discuss logistical tasks and the Justice Center in the context of Mount Vernon's former jail.
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 UW anthology
The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
Paul Valéry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book of Revelation
Skagit County Community Justice Center
Peter La Grand music
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24 min - Dear AmericaMatt reads a piece from an Underground Writing class at juvenile detention. The piece, titled 'Dear America' was written the day after the presidential election in November 2016. Matt and Alvin talk discuss the ongoing internal battles that our nation and world undergo, the histories of oppression and hatred that divide us, and the anthems that propel us forward. They also remember visiting the Ellis Island Museum with the students from the Migrant Leaders Club. Matt gives us an update about the week-long intensive that just wrapped up at the Oasis site and relays some news on some of Underground Writing's teachers. 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 UW anthologyPort Townsend Writer's Conference James BaldwinUnderground Writing Newsletter: June/July 2018 Another "Dear America" poem
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10 min - Dear America *Extended Cut*Matt reads a piece from an Underground Writing class at juvenile detention. The piece, titled 'Dear America' was written the day after the presidential election in November 2016. Matt and Alvin talk discuss the ongoing internal battles that our nation and world undergo, the histories of oppression and hatred that divide us, and the anthems that propel us forward. Matt gives us an update about the week-long intensive that just wrapped up at the Oasis site and relays some news on some of Underground Writing's teachers. 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 UW anthologyPort Townsend Writer's Conference James BaldwinUnderground Writing Newsletter: June/July 2018 Another "Dear America" poem
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14 min - Society Weighs Me Down *Extended Cut*Our student writing this week is titled "Society Weighs Me Down." Matt and Alvin talk about the individual and the larger community, and how one affects the other in deliberate ways or not. Matt gives an update on the process of publishing the UW anthology and thoroughly recommends the book of poetry by Tyehimba Jess titled Olio. 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 UW anthologyOlio, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner by Tyehimba JessCommonplace Podcast by Rachel Zuckermusic by The Eisenhauers
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About The Underground Writing Podcast
From the publisher's feed
The Underground Writing Podcast is an audio channel focusing on student writing. Flowing in and through this river, as it were, are interviews, guests, and organizational updates,…
as well as two smaller tributaries: Linebreak (a single piece of writing) and Kite (our student writing audio zine).
We are a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-need communities in Washington through literacy and personal transformation. We facilitate generative readings of literature spanning the tradition—from ancient texts to those written in our workshops. Honoring the transforming power of the word, we believe that attentive reading leads to attentive writing, and that attentive writing has the power to assist in the restoration of communities, the imagination, and individual lives.
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