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“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waywords produces a web of programs and media designed to improve our thinking in democratic action, in critical literacy, in global understanding. We provoke, inspire, and wrestle with the ambiguities and richness of human thinking, from times modern to ancient.
While offering serious educational support for those who want it, Waywords entertains and engages with surprising takes on a wide range of global topics, from Western social trends to modern mythological thinking.
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The Waywords podcasts and blog explore the workings of global literatures, language, and mythology through a social-epistemic rhetoric. Book reviews explore a wide range of genre, era, and region.
Fiction & Verse
Original prose includes verse, short fiction, work from the ImageMaker cosmogony, the Sam & Nadi English learners series, published collections like Unwoven, and audio drama.
Teaching & Learning
Programs to support students in lifelong literacy training, Advanced Placement® Literature, IB® Theory of Knowledge, philosophy, composition and critical reading, and English language learning.
Literary Nomads for Students
What is this podcast? I recommend you start here, with this introduction to Literary Nomads and get a taste of what the larger series offers!
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Literary Nomads for Readers
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Vanquished
Ottava rima, an eight line verse of iambic pentameter (ABABABCC) in traditional form, has been used alternatively for heroic poems (“Don Juan”) or to mock or parody heroism. I tried to split the difference here, in form and content.
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Le Guin – What I Carry With Me
Now that we’ve wrestled in and with Omelas for a bit, what questions remain for us to take forward on our journey? We’re walking away from Omelas, but let’s have an idea where we’re going.
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” by Mohsin Hamid
Hamid’s layered narrative, in an implied second person point of view, traps Western readers in revealing ambiguity, in genuine and healthy discomfort.
Le Guin Part 5: Q&A
Listeners offer their questions from narrator trust to activism to teaching controversy. I rant–or respond–back.
Letter to Those Who Follow Me
In the breath are hints of dormancy, a marking. Here is a kind of epistle poem, an address or letter of direction or desire.
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