"All Of These Lines Across My Face"

We’ll mention this on upcoming podcasts, but here’s a look at our latest newsletter.

This edition features illustrator Wendy Macnaughton and the work of Brandi Carlile at our Skagit Community Justice Center site. Written by Chris Hoke, UW Teaching Writer.

“I do this weird kind of graphic journalism,” our guest Teaching Writer, Wendy MacNaughton, says to the women around the tables, all wearing oversized red inmate scrubs.

The ladies pass around copies of Wendy’s whimsical line and watercolor portraits she’s made famous in her New York Times Meanwhile column, and the back page of The California Sunday Magazine.

But none of the women in the jail facing charges really read the New York Times.

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Kite 3: Chris Hoke, Teaching Writer

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

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 Rilke
Raymond Carver
Writers in the School (Seattle)

SUMMER RECOMMENDED READING:

Memoir
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City - Nick Flynn
The Ticking is the Bomb - Nick Flynn

Short Stories and Novellas
Birds of America - Lorrie Moore
Separate Flights - Andre Dubus

Novel
The Fishermen - Chigozie Obioma

Non-Fiction & Essays
Blindspot - Teju Cole
Poetry as Survival - Gregory Orr

Poetry
The Complete English Works - George Herbert
The Lice - W.S. Merwin
Poems from Ish River Country: Collected Poems & Translations - Robert Sund
Uncommon Prayer - Kimberly Johnson

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.