The Underground Writing Podcast

“Club Icarus” is a poem by Matthew W. Miller that was brought in to UW writing workshops at the Skagit County Community Justice Center.
Elizabeth Riley, local high school teacher and grad student, joins Matt and Alvin in the studio to explore the myth of Icarus.

LINKS OF INTEREST:

• Hadestown
  
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton
  
• Myth of Icarus
  
• Club Icarus by Matthew W. Miller
  

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.

Note: As you know, friends, our program is focused on providing creative writing workshops that promote writing, reading, self-discovery, and voice amplification in a variety of community settings. Because of the current health threats presented by the coronavirus to our students and the Underground Writing family of workers and volunteers, we are suspending all workshop activity for the time being. In doing so, we are following county, state, and national mandates for precautionary measures. A variety of Underground Writing projects and administrative functions will continue via independent tasks and meetings conducted via e-mail and video conference. We will keep you updated as the days and weeks progress. Thank you for your interest and impact on our students and the Underground Writing community. Keep listening. Keep healthy and safe.

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We’re back for the first podcast of 2020. Matt and Alvin revisit the numbers from 2019 and give you a heads up of what’s planned for 2020, so mark your calendars.

Thanks to the Rick Epting Foundation for the Arts and ArtsWA for supporting our efforts.

Talk About Me, by Yesica Solano is available now

Upcoming Events:

Dear America chapbook
To be published in early 2020

Finding Home: A Foster Youth Story, produced by UW Teaching Writer Laurie Parker
Thursday, March 12, 2020 at the Lincoln Theatre

Migrant Leaders Club reading
Saturday, April 18, 2020 at Lopez Book Shop on Lopez Island

Hidden Truth, by the Migrant Leaders Club, produced by UW Teaching Writer Jennifer Morison Hendrix
Thursday, April 23, 2020 at the Lincoln Theatre

Letters to a Young Inmate initiative
May 2020

FilmVerse screening
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at the Lincoln Theatre

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Habibi is Arabic for beloved, darling. It's also the holiday pop-up market in downtown Mount Vernon sponsored by Voices of the Children, Skagit River Poetry Foundation, and Underground Writing. This short episode has the directors of those local organizations and Habibi's Featured Artist Asil Jabr around the table at the pop-up retail space.

Features:

Asil Jabr and Aaron Wagner: Voices of the Children //

Molly McNulty: Skagit River Poetry Foundation //

Matt Malyon: Underground Writing

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