I, Too, Sing America *Extended Cut*

Student Writing from the YMCA Oasis Daylight Center, after Langston Hughes' I Too. Matt and Alvin talk about the courageous nature of declarative works that these pieces have in common. Matt discusses how Hughes took the lead from Walt Whitman's work, cataloguing the nation. What is a voice? What is a country?

UW updates:

Upcoming week-long intensive at the juvenile detention site, based on the book Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, led by Teaching Writer, Jennifer Bradbury.

Community Spotlight podcast coming up, profiling YMCA Oasis Daylight Center site host, Randi Breuer.

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
• Langston Hughes
• Walt Whitman
• YMCA Oasis Daylight Center
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• UW Teaching Writer Jennifer Bradbury
• Atheneum
• The Eisenhauers music

The Book Was Fat And Big *Extended Cut*

Student writing this week, "The Book Was Fat And Big" comes from the juvenile detention site. Matt and Alvin discuss how this piece of dream-vision literature joins the ranks of Paul Valéry, Coleridge, and John of Patmos. UW writing workshops often introduce poems and invite students' responses to "after" them. 

Matt gives an update on a future site: the Skagit County Community Justice Center. They discuss logistical tasks and the Justice Center in the context of Mount Vernon's former jail.

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, the UW anthology
• The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
• Paul Valéry
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
• Book of Revelation 
• Skagit County Community Justice Center 
• Peter La Grand music