This piece comes from our site at Skagit County’s Juvenile Detention. UW Teaching Writer Suzanne brought in a poem from a Chinese factory worker. Matt and Alvin discuss protest, despair, hope, and transformation.
Links of Interest:
What No One Ever Tells You
Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry
In the Words of China's Workers
Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.
KITE:
A. A NOTE PASSED FROM AN INMATE TO AN INMATE IN ANOTHER CELL OR TO A GUARD
B. UNDERGROUND WRITING’S AUDIO ZINE FEATURING STUDENT WRITING
Dear Self by J.
Broken by Rocky
Lost Boy Rich by Richard
Border of Paradise by Rocky
There Have Been So Many Times by Ray
This City is a Map of Pain by J.
Goodbye to My Addiction From a Psychotic Poet by Nick
Reconciliation by Skylar
A Letter for Hope by Nick
Brain Spill by Skylar
Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.
