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The Underground Writing Podcast

The Underground Writing Podcast

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The Underground Writing Podcast is an audio channel focusing on student writing. Flowing in and through this river, as it were, are interviews, guests, and organizational updates, as well as two smaller tributaries: Linebreak (a single piece of writing) and Kite (our student writing audio zine).


We are a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-need communities in Washington through literacy and personal transformation. We facilitate generative readings of literature spanning the tradition—from ancient texts to those written in our workshops. Honoring the transforming power of the word, we believe that attentive reading leads to attentive writing, and that attentive writing has the power to assist in the restoration of communities, the imagination, and individual lives.

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Episodes
  • Journeying '18 Revisited
    Aug 11 2026

    Today’s student writing was a poem by Lucian, who was a student at our writing workshop site inside Skagit County Juvenile Detention. Lucian’s poem, “Journeying,” appears in our 1st anthology, What No One Ever Tells You (available on our website: www.undergroundwriting.org).


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    Some items mentioned in—or aligned with—today’s episode:


    The Odyssey – Homer (Translations)


    -Emily Wilson: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393356250


    -Robert Fitzgerald: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250375445/theodyssey/


    -Robert Fagles: https://www.penguinrandomhouseretail.com/book/?isbn=9780140268867


    -Richard Lattimore: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-odyssey-of-homer-richmond-lattimore?variant=32114984058914


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    Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey: https://www.odysseymovie.com/


    Ezra Klein – Great (and brief) podcast episode discussing the film from a political angle:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christopher-nolans-trojan-horse/id1548604447?i=1000779524498


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    You can support students like Lucian by spreading the word about our podcast, purchasing student writing anthologies in our website store, and making a donation to help sustain our ongoing work via our website’s secure donation portal.


    Our website: www.undergroundwriting.org


    You can e-mail us at: podcast@undergroundwriting.org


    We truly appreciate your interest in our work, and would be grateful if you’d spread the word, keep listening and stay in touch.


    Thanks for listening, Friends.


    Safe journey . . . and take good care.


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    27 mins
  • What's Written in the Heart
    Jul 22 2026

    Today’s student writing is, “What’s Written in the Heart,” a poem by Destery, a student at our workshop site at the YMCA Oasis Daylight Center. Destery’s poem appears in our 1st anthology, What No One Ever Tells You (available on our website: www.undergroundwriting.org).


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    Some items mentioned in—or aligned with—today’s episode:


    -Bob Dylan: https://www.bobdylan.com/


    -Czeslaw Milosz: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz


    -Walt Whitman: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/walt-whitman


    -Osip Mandelstam: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam


    -Amtrak // Empire Builder: https://www.amtrak.com/empire-builder-train


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    You can support students like Destery by spreading the word about our podcast, purchasing student writing anthologies in our website store, and making a donation to help sustain our ongoing work via our website’s secure donation portal.


    Our website: www.undergroundwriting.org


    You can e-mail us at: podcast@undergroundwriting.org


    The Underground Writing podcast is recorded and produced by Underground Writing. You can access it via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast outlets, as well as on our website where we include links of interest connected to items mentioned in each episode.


    We’re repeating ourselves, but it’s good to say again—You, friend, can also help us by writing a review on Apple Podcasts or other outlets. We may even read some of them on the air. Podcast reviews help other like-minded folks find out about our show, as well as our broader work. Any help you can lend to this effort would be greatly appreciated.


    Our website: www.undergroundwriting.org


    You can send inquiries, or pitches for advertising, here: podcast@undergroundwriting.org


    Thanks for listening, Friends.


    Safe journey, and take good care.


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    22 mins
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