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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.
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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.
“A Poetics of Plot for the 21st Century” by Brian Richardson
3-Word Review: Prosaic Thoughtful Endeavoring Frictional Posture: Pre-selecting 5 of your favorite titles from the past 20 years, how well do they fall into Richardson's categories as you read them? . . . . . . . . . . .
“The Perseverance” by Raymond Antrobus
3-Word Review: Gulf-crossing Re-sensitizing Broadening Frictional Posture: Thinking of mind, body, and culture, where is language located?
Packing Lists Pt. 2 – Stalwart Women
Who carries the weight of our leisure? Some readings from the past by thoughtful and resilient women! Take in some early writing of place and circumstance, journals and reflections which reflect the jarring collisions between our travel expectations and...
Packing Lists Pt. 1: Dreams and Dirt
Did your horse throw ya, buddy? We investigate what we hope to achieve by literary travel . . . and why our packing cannot prepare us for it! While the global tourism industry spends billions to shape our eager expectations, what is it that we're...
Grand Tours Pt 2: Bat on the Narrow Road
What's the difference between being a passive tourist and a wayfarer? Follow the 17th-century footsteps of Matsuo Basho to interrogate the gap between curated tourist destinations and the open-ended, ego-stripping realities of true travel. By...
Grand Tours Pt 1: The Postcard Illusion
Are we consuming an authentic place, or are we willingly participating in a beautifully staged performance designed around our own expectations? In this opening episode of Journey 7, we begin our exploration of literary tourism. When we travel to the...
Nostalgia for the 20th Century
A dramatic monologue form, characters who pronounce alone, and in so doing, reveal their own ironic flaws at a critical—or maybe in this case, critically awkward—moment.
Literary Tourism Trailer
Welcome to the summer trailhead! Join Journey 7 of Literary Nomads as we explore the secrets of literary tourism and travel writing. Discover how authors like L.M. Montgomery constructed the identity of Prince Edward Island, unpack the cultural legacy of...
Nomadic Departures
We are left on the precipice of a severe, unavoidable aporia: when the Empire can absorb and commercialize our very language of protest, the only true ethical act of agency is to stop performing the script, reject the easy answer, and step directly out...
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