Victor Manuel Vivanco Reyes

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).

Show Notes:

Today’s featured story and poems were centered on student and alumnus, Victor.  You can support students like Victor by spreading the word about our podcast, purchasing student writing anthologies and other merch in our online store, and making a donation to help our work continue – you can donate via our website’s secure donation portal here: https://undergroundwriting.org/donate

*** Want to send a letter of support or encouragement for Victor? You can e-mail it to us here: podcast@undergroundwriting.org We’ll forward it to his family.

Some items mentioned in today’s episode:

Detention Center in the Seattle area: https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/northwest-ice-processing-center-nwipc

Langston Hughes’ poem, “I, Too”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-too

Paul Valery’s poem, “The Angel Handed Me a Book”: https://friko-diamonddesigns.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-angel-handed-me-book.html

Czeslaw Milosz’ poem, “A Gift”: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/gift-0/

Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry book, Deaf Republic: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic

Announcements:

1.  If you recently began listening to our podcast—or if you’ve been with us for a number of years—we want to remind you to check out the first 3 episodes of this reboot season to get an overview of where we’ve been and where we’re going.  Check out season 5, episodes 1, 2, & 3.

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Safe journey, and take good care.

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