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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.
“The Refugees” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nguyen’s short stories are, each individually, a situation of struggle in identity across generations, gender, economies, traditions, and circumstance; absorbing and revealing.
“Gilgamesh” trans. by Sophus Helle
. . . elliptical, paradoxical, mysterious, adventurous, at once a strange rollicking adventure to kill giants and subdue women but also a careful meditation on mortality and love and power.
The Hideous Heart – Poe’s Aesthetic of Accountability
There really isn’t that much to say about Poe, is there? He’s just creepy. But wait. What if we could explain the supposed madness in all these stories?
Waypoint – “The Imp of Perversity”
Another Halloween treat from Poe, a reading of this lesser-known tale. And follow the podcast for some ways to think about it and “The Tell-Tale Heart”!
Waypoint – “The Tell-Tale Heart”
This story, a quintessential Poe classic, is perfect not only for its conception of the psychology of horror, but for our larger discussion in Le Guin’s Journey 6.
“An Unnecessary Woman” by Rabih Alameddine
Alameddine’s unusual book creates its own rules for reading, bringing us close indoors in a small apartment in Lebanon where an elderly woman lives the quiet final days of alone-ness and translates novels no one will read.
Literary Nomads for Teachers
What is this podcast? I recommend you start here, with this introduction to Literary Nomads and get a taste of what the larger series offers!
Literary Nomads for Students
What is this podcast? I recommend you start here, with this introduction to Literary Nomads and get a taste of what the larger series offers!
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