Kite 5: Yesica Solano / Part 1

This episode of KITE 5 is part 1 with our first intern, Yesica Solano.

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. Stranger

2. Letter to My Mom

3. No Woman’s Land

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.