Kite 10

KITE  ['kīt, noun]  1. A note requesting or providing information, passed from one inmate to another in a separate cell, to someone on the outside, or to a guard; 2. Underground Writing’s audio zine featuring a selection of student writing.

SHOW NOTES:

Today’s featured writings were written by our adult students at the Skagit County Community Justice Center (our county jail).  These pieces were written during the Covid era.  You can support these students, as well as all our students, by spreading the word about our podcast, purchasing student writing anthologies in our website store, and making a donation to help our ongoing work via our website’s secure donation portal.

For more information about where things are at with regard to our podcast reboot, as well as our organization overall, please listen to the previous two reboot special episodes: S5E1, The Underground Writing Podcast (September 26, 2024) and S5E2, Linebreak (October 3, 2024).

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Safe journey, and take good care.

Kite 9

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.

1. My Cell -Victor

2. I Won’t Front -J.S.

3. I Am Not What You Think I Am -Luciean

4. Nascar Dialogue -Josh

5. Survival -M.

6. 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.