The Underground Writing Podcast
Arts:Literature
It’s been something—this year of 2020: the pandemic, the quarantine, the killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, the wildfires currently occurring up and down the west coast, the looming November election . . . It’s been a year of great challenges, and a year of hope for true and lasting change. How will this year—and how will we—be remembered? In this episode, Matt and Alvin read pieces circling the theme of remembrance, written before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, they share a summary overview of the situation for Underground Writing, as well as program updates, forthcoming projects, and great news about a just-announced grant.
LINKS OF INTEREST:
'Last Will and Testament' – Sherman Alexie
'No Many of Them, It's True' – Gregory Orr (part of the “The World Has Need of You” collection)
'Orpheus and Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence' – Gregory Orr
'Poetry as Survival' – Gregory Orr
'Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes' - Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Steven Mitchell)
Hope in These Times: e-deliverable writing worksheet
Underground Writing’s active writing workshops:
The Change list of suggested books
Letters to a Young Inmate is in the home stretch, launching later 2020
Academy of American Poets
Community of American Magazines and Presses
National Book Foundation
COVID 19 pandemic
PNW wildfire smoke
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.
What No One Ever Tells You
I Am a Fieldworker and I Am Tired
I Am a Fieldworker and I Am Tired *Extended Cut*
Odes and the River of Tradition
Odes and the River of Tradition *Extended Cut*
Journeying
Dreams
Community Spotlight: Randi Breuer at Oasis Daylight Center
I, Too, Sing America
I, Too, Sing America *Extended Cut*
The Book Was Fat And Big
The Book Was Fat And Big *Extended Cut*
Dear America
Dear America *Extended Cut*
Society Weighs Me Down *Extended Cut*
Society Weighs Me Down
Trying to Catch Up to You *Extended Cut*
Trying to Catch Up to You
I Belong Here Because
At the Beginning or The Best Drug
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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anne of Green Gables
Grimms’ Fairy Tales
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame