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“Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.”
Angela Carter
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.
Bambi in Boyland Pt 2: Wannabe Forest Prince
One might argue that Bambi is a fictional character and 50 Cent is real. Given. Yet we must not forget that it is Curtis Jackson who is as real as Bambi author Felix Salten. 50 Cent is Jackson’s fiction as Bambi is Salten’s.
“Ally is a Verb” by Rose LeMay
3-Word Review: Fundamental Acclimating Necessary Frictional Posture: Written primarily about Canada's indigenous community, how widely might LeMay's lessons be applied?
“Hope In the Dark” by Rebecca Solnit
3-Word Review: Challenging Dated Local-grounded Frictional Posture: Originally written in 2004, what new challenges face Solnit's arguments?
“Advocate” by Eddie Ahn
3-Word Review: Straightforward Expository Memoir Frictional Posture: What promises of the memoir genre are frustrated/fulfilled here?
Temporary Delay Announcement
Hey, everyone! Thanks for your patience during this unexpected episode delay! A few tech challenges while I upgraded my studio this summer put me a few weeks behind. But this little announcement proves that I’m back up and running, so we’ll continue our...
Bibliography for a Lost Poet
A hybrid text. Narrative, poetry, or something else.
Bambi in Boyland Pt 1. Commerce Drive-In Theater, 1968
“I guess I’ve always felt that an abundant show of strength is too often a narcissistic mask for our insecurities. Behind every Forest Prince is a lonely and helpless fawn. That night in 1968 I didn’t need Bambi to tell me that I was afraid of fire, …”
“The Trials of Brother Jero” by Wole Soyinka
3-Word Review: Cheeky Notorious Language-Driven Frictional Posture: A surface comedy of errors, how much of Jero's commentary is false?
“How the End Begins” by Cynthia Cruz
3-Word Review: Inter-linked Thematically-rhythmed Melancholic Frictional Posture: What disordering "serpent" licks at the edges of the speakers' experiences?
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