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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.
Criticism & Reviews
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.
“Zen Flesh Zen Bones” by Paul Reps & Nyogen Senzaki
A marvelous collection of koan and anecdotes, each worthy of days or weeks of meditation, reflection, though largely without commentary. Think of it as a workbook or thinkbook in Zen. Invaluable.
Reading and Living in Uncertainty
What do we mean by uncertainty in reading? And why do we have to look for it?
“A Woman and Poems” by Kanchan Pudasaini (ed.) –
This local Nepalese publication is a decades old tribute of verse written to then First Lady Hillary Clinton. Unusual in its premise and manner of praise . . .
Dare I? A Poet Limericks
Is there any reason at all in these anxious days to write a limerick? Of what value is it? Where resistance from it?
Unwoven Audiobook Available!
At last, the professional audiobook version is complete, with original music by Randon Myles and read by the author! Get it now from wherever you find your listens.
“A Contract with God Trilogy” by Will Eisner
The first in this series virtually invented the graphic novel genre. More, though, over the three books and 20+ years, Eisner sets a high bar for its form and ambition, as well.
What I Carry With Me
What questions do we carry with us as we leave Marvell’s famous poem?
“Amahl and the Night Visitors” by Gian Carlo Menotti
A fine, family tradition of light opera, here a parable of the Christian Nativity. But, as some have claimed, one of the best librettos in opera? Nonsense.
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 4
Who is the speaker in this poem? Who the audience? Who the Marvell?
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