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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
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

Dear America chapbook

The Change - Book Pipeline

Marilyn Montufar

Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Claudia Castro Luna

Letters to a Young Inmate

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.

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
Matt shares student writing from the e-workshops at the Skagit County Community Justice Center site.


Finding Hope (excerpt) - Garrett

Helping - C.

Seven Aphorisms - Michael

I Need You to Unlock Heaven's Door - Kyle

Being locked up - Leland

Fulfillment of Last Laugh - Joshua

My Answer - Brian


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.

To say that the Coronavirus has changed things is an understatement. The world is in a state of forced improvisation. Things have been quite different for us, too, during the quarantine. In this episode, Matt provides a summary overview of the situation for Underground Writing, program updates and adaptations, and shares new student writing created in response to the current COVID-19 era.

LINKS OF INTEREST:
The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio

David Budbill

Lucille Clifton

Underground Writing News & Photos

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.