Dreams

The student writing, “Dreams,” comes from the Migrant Leaders Club site, and explores the gap that interrupts our aspirations, hopes, and goals.

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Matt gives updates on the week-long intensive coming up at juvenile detention. 

The podcast published before this one is our first Community Spotlight episode featuring Randi at Oasis Daylight Shelter.

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
• Migrant Leaders Club of Mount Vernon School District, UW teaching site
• Juvenile Court of Skagit County, UW teaching site
• Juan Felipe Herrera, 2015 US Poet Laureate
• Langston Hughes
• Music by Peter La Grand

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