I Belong Here

I Belong Here

Underground Writing

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It’s a deal with the threat of more consequences.

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.

Links of Interest:

What No One Ever Tells You
What No One Ever Tells You, Book Launch
Mahmoud Darwish
"Seismic shift" in juvenile justice in Washington
Laurie Parker and our Teaching Writers
ArtsWA
AWP 2019 Conference in Portland, Oregon

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.

What No One Ever Tells You

What No One Ever Tells You

Underground Writing

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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.

Links of Interest:

What No One Ever Tells You
Skagit County Juvenile Detention  
YMCA Oasis Daylight Center  
Nathan McGehee, Artist & Designer
Washington State Arts Commission