The Underground Writing Podcast
Underground Writing
Recent Episodes
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
Jen Bradbury, UW Teaching Writer, shares student writing from What No One Ever Tells You.
- My Cell -Victor
- I Won’t Front -J.S.
- I Am Not What You Think I Am -Luciean
- Nascar Dialogue -Josh
- Survival -M.
- We Sit Here Together -Students and Teaching Writers, in a circle, one line each
Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-need communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.
Yesica joins Matt and Alvin in the park on a sunny day. She shares new work and updates us on her journey. Matt gives updates on workshops, events, and amplifying voices.
LINKS OF INTEREST:
Podcast Review: Underground Writing
The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien
Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-need communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.
We’re still here. Matt and Alvin read excerpts from DEAR AMERICA, the newest collection of student writing, packaged as our latest chapbook. They check in on the state of… everything, having made it into the new year. Matt gives updates on writing workshops and amplifying voices.
LINKS OF INTEREST:
DEAR AMERICA CHAPBOOK
THE CHANGE - BOOK PIPELINE
MARILYN MONTUFAR
CLAUDIA CASTRO LUNA
LETTERS TO A YOUNG INMATE
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.
It’s been something—this year of 2020: the pandemic, the quarantine, the killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, the wildfires currently occurring up and down the west coast, the looming November election . . . It’s been a year of great challenges, and a year of hope for true and lasting change. How will this year—and how will we—be remembered? In this episode, Matt and Alvin read pieces circling the theme of remembrance, written before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, they share a summary overview of the situation for Underground Writing, as well as program updates, forthcoming projects, and great news about a just-announced grant.
LINKS OF INTEREST:
'Last Will and Testament' – Sherman Alexie
'No Many of Them, It's True' – Gregory Orr (part of the “The World Has Need of You” collection)
'Orpheus and Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence' – Gregory Orr
'Poetry as Survival' – Gregory Orr
'Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes' - Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Steven Mitchell)
Hope in These Times: e-deliverable writing worksheet
Underground Writing’s active writing workshops:
- Mount Vernon Migrant Leaders Club in the Mount Vernon School District
- Skagit County Community Justice Center
- Skagit County Juvenile Detention
- Skagit Valley Recovery Site (hosted by Brigid Collins)
- YMCA Oasis Daylight Center
The Change list of suggested books
- Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds
- I'm Still Here: Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
- The Vintage Hughes - Langston Hughes
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
Letters to a Young Inmate is in the home stretch, launching later 2020
Academy of American Poets
Community of American Magazines and Presses
National Book Foundation
COVID 19 pandemic
PNW wildfire smoke
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.