"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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Odes and the River of Tradition

Matt and Alvin explore odes and the ongoing conversation of Pablo Neruda, the Skagit Recovery Community Site, and the Oasis Daylight Center site.

UW Updates:

Matt updates listeners on UW’s first workshop at the Community Justice Center, now a weekly site serving men and women on alternating weeks.

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:

What No One Ever Tells You
Pablo Neruda
Odes
John Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
Skagit County Community Justice Center