Community Spotlight: Randi Breuer at Oasis Daylight Center

This is the first Community Spotlight episode of the podcast. We speak with Randi Breuer, Center Coordinator at the YMCA Oasis Daylight Center and site host for Underground Writing. Randi speaks about how the center operates, what the strategy is in serving at-risk youth in the community, and the role of creative writing in personal restoration. 

LINKS OF INTEREST:

• Oasis Daylight Center of Skagit Valley
• What No One Ever Tells You
• music by The Eisenhauers: Good Old Days from the album The Road We Once Knew

I, Too, Sing America

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