Waywords Studio
Wanderings on Literature and Language
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“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
Martin Heidegger, “Poetry, Language, Thought”
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
The Waywords podcast and blog explore the workings of global literatures, language, and mythology through a social-epistemic rhetoric.
Fiction
Original prose includes short fiction, work from the ImageMaker cosmogony, the Sam & Nadi English learners series, and audio drama.
Teaching
Programs to support students in lifelong literacy training, Advanced Placement® Literature, IB® Theory of Knowledge, philosophy, and English language learning.
Daemon Maps – Repair Guy
Did they, in some coffee klatch somewhere, meet before marking this pathway to savings, to make a small quiet bet against themselves? Their kitchens were not my kitchens, their maps were not my reality, and they’d be damned if some commenters bombed their social media accounts.
Mulcher
Prose poetry pushes against most every concept of verse and form, nearly an anti-form. So how is it poetry?
Kitten – A Sonnet
The Shakespearean sonnet by its formal nature elevates its subject (not necessarily who–or what–is addressed).
Neighbor While Gardening – A Pantoum
The pantoum tends to move over the same ground repeatedly. The second form is the free verse version. (And no, this is not about any of my personal neighbors!)
Education – A Cinquain
A “Mirror Cinquain,” and the meter, too, is reversed across the two stanzas. The second form is the free verse version.
Pen and Heart
A villanelle and then not one. What is ever the same, anyway?
Daemon Maps – An Introduction
We’ll call our exploration one of Daemon Maps, where any superior or superior inspiration guiding or discoverable by us (be it intentional, by D(d)esign, or by Law of Physics) is not necessarily ultimate, but graspable within our single local lifetimes.
Reach
A poem of ecology, memory, grief, and reconciliations, adapted from the recent album, Creative Reading Vol 2.
Halcyon Days
Two versions of the same poem on the Winter Solstice calm nostalgia. Which is better?
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