Waywords Studio
Wanderings on Literature and Language
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“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 podcast 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 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, and English language learning.
Day 3: (re)Writing the Masters
In the film, much of this layered social critique by Wilde is instead laid at the feet of a cat. . . .
Day 2: Price or Poe?
On their own, as a film, the changes made almost betray the claustrophobic prose of Poe’s story.
Susan Howe: “My Emily Dickinson”
A re-examination of Dickinson’s work through the mind and tongue of a poet, a necessary set of eyes to find meaning when “objective analysis” is impotent.
Day 1: Which Mary Shelley?
This is it, then. Branagh may believe he is channeling Shelley, but his own dithyrambic ego prevents us from seeing her.
Day 0: Films to Books and . . .
If I had to guess, it’s that many missed a key idea of translation to a different medium: transformation. Creating story for a poem, podcast, movie, painting, symphony, short story, campfire talk, or novel are each significantly different acts,
Susan Howe: “Concordance”
Howe’s found poetry and auto-historical reflection work to form patterns which, in her own words, form “cthonic echo signals.” A collection not to be read so much as intoned.
Daemon Maps: Suspicion of Metaphor
“All I need to know is if that low pressure system might create a tornado; stop telling me about the number of grandmothers per hectare!”
Noelle Stevenson: “Nimona”
Simply drawn, richly storied, Nimona has enough nuance and surprise, uncertainty and nonsense, to keep anyone entertained and satisfied!
My Arms Aloft – A Tanka
Two speakers exchange tanka. What is coded?
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