I Have to Swallow the Time

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.

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Kite 4: Community Justice Center

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

  1. Dear Self by J.

  2. Broken by Rocky

  3. Lost Boy Rich by Richard

  4. Border of Paradise by Rocky

  5. There Have Been So Many Times by Ray

  6. This City is a Map of Pain by J.

  7. Goodbye to My Addiction From a Psychotic Poet by Nick

  8. Reconciliation by Skylar

  9. A Letter for Hope by Nick

  10. Brain Spill by Skylar

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