Underground Writing

The Underground Writing Podcast

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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 worksho...

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Society Weighs Me Down *Extended Cut* 03.07.2018 32:30

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....

Society Weighs Me Down 02.07.2018 13:12

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trying to Catch Up to You *Extended Cut* 19.06.2018 20:47

This week, we read a piece titled "Trying to Catch Up to You," from one of our earlier sites. Matt and Alvin discuss the vulnerability and courage required to share an all-too-common grief that many of our students carry. It was raining at the UW headquarters; please ignore that rattling sound at the beginning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trying to Catch Up to You 19.06.2018 8:24

This week, we read a piece titled "Trying to Catch Up to You," from one of our earlier sites. Matt and Alvin discuss the vulnerability and courage required to share an all-too-common grief that many of our students carry. It was raining at the UW headquarters; please ignore that rattling sound at the beginning. Note: We are a creative writing program serving at-risk populations. We do not broadca...

I Belong Here Because 04.06.2018 10:49

Student Writing from Migrant Leaders Club of Mount Vernon Public Schools. Discussion of recent FilmVerse event with Voices of the Children, the Lincoln Theatre, and Underground Writing. Music by Luis Lopez and the Migrant Leaders Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the Beginning or The Best Drug 21.05.2018 6:33

This is our first bi-weekly update podcast! Director Matt Malyon and Producer Alvin Shim met briefly in the UW admin headquarters to touch base on the many program goings-on. It's a short six-and-a-half minute podcast that features a piece of writing by a UW student and a quick update about our recent trip to New York with the Migrant Leaders Club to see Miss You Like Hell , written by Quiara Aleg...