Linebreak | Dear America

LINEBREAK is a single piece of student writing, offered as a pause during your daily life.  We hope it will be generative of further creativity, perspective, and thought.

SHOW NOTES:

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Today is Election Day 2024.  Listeners, if you have not already done so, we urge you to get out and vote as soon as possible!  If you don’t know where to vote, check out Vote.org.  You can access their voting location help here: https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ 

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, and 3.

Our first anthology of student writing, What No One Ever Tells You.

The Dear America chapbook.

Learn more about the Letters to a Young Inmate initiative: www.letterstoayounginmate.org

Underground Writing’s photo-based NEWS page.  (Hover over the images to access text, more information, and links to connected topics.)

Our website – Programs / News / Contact / Donations:  www.undergroundwriting.org

You can send inquiries, or pitches for advertising, here: podcast@undergroundwriting.org

We’re repeating ourselves, but it’s good to say again . . . Listeners!—You can also help us by writing a review on Apple Podcasts or other outlets.  And something new—we may even read some of them on the air.  Podcast reviews help other like-minded folks find out about our show, as well as our broader work.  Any help you can lend to this effort would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for listening, Friends. 

Safe journey . . . and take good care.

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Reboot | Ode to My Journal

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).

On this first episode of Season 5, we talk about the reboot of The Underground Writing Podcast. Highlights include a catchup / overview coming out of the Covid era, a few updates regarding programs and collaborations, and a reading of "Ode to My Journal," a poem by Anthony, one of our students at our writing workshop site in Skagit County Juvenile Detention.

Show Notes:

Today’s featured writing is “Ode to My Journal” by Anthony, a student at our writing workshop site in Skagit County Juvenile Detention. You can support Anthony, and students like him, 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

Our website: www.undergroundwriting.org

You can send inquiries, or pitches for advertising, here: podcast@undergroundwriting.org

Learn more about the Letters to a Young Inmate initiative via our website here: www.letterstoayounginmate.org

The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison is a wonderful resource, Edited by Caits Meissner (a member of our Advisory Board). You can learn more about this book online here: https://pen.org/program/the-sentences-that-create-us/

More about our re/vision program can be accessed via our website here: www.undergroundwriting.org/revision

Podcast Review, a Los Angeles Review of Books channel, published an article in April 2024 about top writing podcasts, and included us in the list for a third time. We’re beyond grateful to be included amongst such company. You can read Alice Florence Orr’s article online here: https://podcastreview.org/list/best-writing-podcasts/

We’re repeating ourselves, but it’s good to say again . . . Listeners!—You can also help us by writing a review on Apple Podcasts or other outlets. And something new—we may even read some of them on the air. Podcast reviews help other like-minded folks find out about our show, as well as our broader work. Any help you can lend to this effort would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for listening, Friends. 

Safe journey, and take good care.