Kite 6: A. Muia, 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

A. Muia, UW Teaching Writer, shares student writing from the workshops at Skagit County Juvenile Detention.

1. Where I’m From by E

2. I Am From by J

3. I Belong Here by A

4. Visitation Hours by B

5. One Medicine I’ve Taken by M

6. I Feel Like a Loaded Gun by J

7. A Painting by Vincent Van Gogh by C

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.

Van Gogh, 1890

I Have to Swallow the Time

This piece comes from our site at Skagit County’s Juvenile Detention. UW Teaching Writer Suzanne brought in a poem from a Chinese factory worker. Matt and Alvin discuss protest, despair, hope, and transformation.

Links of Interest:

What No One Ever Tells You
Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry
In the Words of China's Workers

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.