Dear America

We continue exploring the DEAR AMERICA prompt from our site at the Skagit County Community Justice Center: ideas of balance and counter-balance, frustration and allure.

Matt shares updates from a satellite program on the east coast, The Change: a book pipeline to—among other sites—the library at Green Hill School in Chehalis, WA, and a teaser for our next Community Spotlight episode.

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
Skagit County Community Justice Center
Washington States Arts Commission (ArtsWA)
One Year Writing in the Margins
The Change - Book Pipeline

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Northern Washington through literary engagement and personal restoration.

To the Drug Addict That Is Supposed to Testify Against Me

Matt and Alvin wrestle with the implications of a poem of blessing from the Skagit County Community Justice Center site, and meditate on its beauty and selflessness. They also discuss the recent Hidden Truth event, performed by the Migrant Leaders Club and directed by Underground Writing’s Teaching Writer, Jennifer Morison Hendrix.

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
Writers in the Schools
Seattle Arts & Lectures (WITS)
Washington State Arts Commission
Poets House
The Hidden Truth (news article)
AWP 2019 Conference
Suzanne Paola Antonetta
The Kenyon Review
The Georgia Review

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Northern Washington through literary engagement and personal restoration.