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 wri...
Sep 30, 2019•10 min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 17, 2019•39 min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 19, 2019•16 min
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 NovellasB...
Jun 10, 2019•11 min
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 conti...
Jun 03, 2019•33 min
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 an...
May 21, 2019•19 min
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, "M...
May 13, 2019•14 min
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 C...
May 06, 2019•46 min
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 writingThis episode features twelve pieces of writing from the Skagit County Community Justice Center, read by Matt Malyon. I’m Cold and the Temperature Doesn’t Change. Pancho. After the First Lightning, Where Does the Rain Go? Zachary.206. Zachary.I Will Ask Your Permission. Victor. After Sherman Alexie’s After the First Lightning. I Will Ask For Your Ear. Scrip...
May 03, 2019•8 min
Zoe Mullery has been the creative writing teacher of Brothers in Pen at San Quentin Prison since 1999. This writing group has produced eight anthologies of:”fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, or some hybrid.” She joins Matt and Alvin in the studio to discuss truth/facts, the purpose of humans in community, generosity and story, and the gift of listening inward in a world of posturing and ego.The class exists because of the big vision and the big heart of the William James Association (WJA) an...
Apr 22, 2019•52 min
We continue exploring the DEAR AMERICA prompt from our site at the Skagit County Community Justice Center: ideas of balance and counter-balance, frustration and allure. Matt shares updates from a satellite program on the east coast, The Change: a book pipeline to—among other sites—the library at Green Hill School in Chehalis, WA, and a teaser for our next Community Spotlight episode. Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying det...
Apr 08, 2019•20 min
Matt and Alvin wrestle with the implications of a poem of blessing from the Skagit County Community Justice Center site, and meditate on its beauty and selflessness. They also discuss the recent Hidden Truth event, performed by the Migrant Leaders Club and directed by Underground Writing’s Teaching Writer, Jennifer Morison Hendrix. 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:...
Mar 25, 2019•22 min
Matt and Alvin read a piece of vivid memory from juvenile detention, aftering poems by Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva. Matt shares updates about UW Teaching Writers, Chris Hoke and Suzanne Paola Antonetta. 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 Washington State Arts Commission Osip Mandelstam Marina Tsvetaeva Christian Wiman Ilya Kaminsk...
Mar 11, 2019•15 min
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 ...
Feb 25, 2019•27 min
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 Writin...
Feb 11, 2019•21 min
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 broadc...
Jan 28, 2019•23 min
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 broadcas...
Jan 14, 2019•15 min
“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....
Dec 31, 2018•15 min
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 ...
Dec 17, 2018•17 min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 05, 2018•55 sec
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 You...
Dec 03, 2018•15 min
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 nam...
Nov 20, 2018•25 min
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 detail...
Oct 22, 2018•11 min
Student writing from the Migrant Leaders Club site. Matt and Alvin remember the performance of this piece from their trip to New York earlier this year, read on stage after the musical Miss You Like Hell, written by Quiara Alegría Hudes. UW updates:Matt shares about a recent meeting with the Migrant Leaders Club of the Mount Vernon School District. As the school year starts up again, Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying det...
Oct 08, 2018•16 min
Student writing from the Migrant Leaders Club site. Matt and Alvin remember the performance of this piece from their trip to New York earlier this year, read on stage after the musical Miss You Like Hell, written by Quiara Alegría Hudes. UW updates:Matt shares about a recent meeting with the Migrant Leaders Club of the Mount Vernon School District. As the school year starts up again, Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadcast names or identifying det...
Oct 08, 2018•24 min
Matt and Alvin explore odes and the ongoing conversation of Pablo Neruda, the Skagit Recovery Community Site, and the Oasis Daylight Center site. UW Updates:Matt updates listeners on UW’s first workshop at the Community Justice Center, now a weekly site serving men and women on alternating weeks. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
Sep 24, 2018•17 min
Matt and Alvin explore odes and the ongoing conversation of Pablo Neruda, the Skagit Recovery Community Site, and the Oasis Daylight Center site.UW Updates:Matt updates listeners on UW’s first workshop at the Community Justice Center, now a weekly site serving men and women on alternating weeks.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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
Sep 24, 2018•23 min
We 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 mo...
Sep 11, 2018•20 min
The 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 28, 2018•16 min
This 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 21, 2018•11 min
