Literary Nomads
Wanderings on Literature and Language
Titles & Resources
Kate Chopin
“The Story of an Hour”
Medieval Poetry
“Fowles in the Frith”
Chimamanda Adichie
“Tomorrow is Too Far”
Vincent Van Gogh
Immersive Van Gogh
Andrew Marvell
“To His Coy Mistress”
Ursula K. LeGuin
(soon)
Bushongo cosmology
(to follow)
Jean-Paul Sartre
(to follow)
ND Stevenson
(to follow)
Earlier Episodes
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 3
We trace Marvell’s poetry back to its perhaps distressing roots.
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2
What did Marvell know and how did he use it? We look at the sexism in the poem and discover how this provocation is hardly unique in the carpe diem tradition.
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1
What do we do with–how do we read–can we make us of–a classic and famous metaphysical poem which is also misogynistic?
Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability
We consider who is accountable for the text: author, character, or reader, and how writers build a narrative distance in texts to allow irony and meaning to operate (and shirking a bit of accountability).
An Introduction and Irony
What is Literary Nomads, anyway? And what does that have to do with Radiohead, Godzilla, professorial assault, and irony?
Unwoven Interview #3: Poet Kelly Porter
The final of three full interviews from the book launch of my poetry book Unwoven. Here, poet Kelly Porter and I discuss how consciously writers might think about structure.
Previous Reads
Wander and read with us!
- Chopin, Kate - “The Story of an Hour”
- Anonymous - “Fowles in the Frith”
- Adichie, Chimamanda - “Tomorrow is Too Far”
- Van Gogh, Vincent - Immersive Exhibitions
- Marvell, Andrew - “To His Coy Mistress”
