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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.

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Original prose includes verse, short fiction, work from the ImageMaker cosmogony, the Sam & Nadi English learners series, published collections like Unwoven, and audio drama.

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Programs to support students in lifelong literacy training, Advanced Placement® Literature, IB® Theory of Knowledge, philosophy, composition and critical reading, and English language learning.

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“Selected Poems” by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Selected Poems” by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Hard-lived and ironically-distanced nostalgia, bleak pleas against violence and horror, Yevtushenko’s early collection (his first to be translated to English) makes for fascinating immersion.

To His Bold Master

To His Bold Master

A prequel response to the Andrew Marvell poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” our silent young lady nowhere in evidence. . . .

“Huda F Are You?” by Huda Fahmy

“Huda F Are You?” by Huda Fahmy

First of a larger series and a web comic, Fahmy’s adventures of a young Muslim girl making her way through school are laughable, relatable, and still grounded enough in prejudice and self-advocacy to be important for young readers.

“Rifqa” by Mohammed El-Kurd

“Rifqa” by Mohammed El-Kurd

This is not easy reading, but poetry’s role is not comfort but truth-telling, the articulation of what we often can not accept in prose. Rifqa is late and powerful, but its title, homage to grandmother and symbol of long resistance, speaks to how long we have turned away.

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