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Literary Nomads
And suddenly, finally, the podcast is back! A bit re-tooled and with a new name, our Wanderings on Literature and Language continue.
Don’t miss the warm-up interviews from the Unwoven book launch airing now, but then, January 24, the regular episodes begin!
Folder Freebies
300 Pages of Poetry Education Supplements
Since Unwoven released, I’ve been adding supplements on the teaching or learning of poetic structure. Right now, the first part of these is free from Waywords.
Once I complete the official Teachers Guide, though, the price will return to about $10. Download them now before the ticking clock of my publishing efforts runs out!
Get the Education Supplements!
Access Drive archives and bonus materials:
Steve’s Recommendations
What to find if
You Want Something You May Have Missed in Black Literature
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Robin Coste Lewis
2017
Olio
Tyehimba Jess
2016
Four Hundred Souls: 1619-2019
Keisha N. Blain, Ibram X Kendi
2021
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
1966
Prince of Cats
Ron Wimberly
2012
Poetry/history on the black female body
Poetry/History of early black music & Scott Joplin
Multi-authored black history, year by year
Language, otherness, re-framing
Graphic novel, Shakespeare, Tybalt’s story
Some Classic Recommendations (Get these read!):
- (F) James Baldwin: Go Tell It On The Mountain - Faith, youth, direction
- (NF) Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider - Essays and speeches on feminism/activism
- (F) Octavia Butler: Kindred - Displacement, slave history, allyship
- (F) Toni Morrison: Sula - Friendship, secrets, sacrifices
- (YA) Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give – Race, resistance, media, family
- (F) Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God - Independence, struggle, heart
What to find if
You Want Terror Over Monsters & Gore

The Girl in a Swing
Richard Adams
1980 (used only)
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
2000

Dust
Charles Pellegrino
1998 (used only)
The Face of Another
Kobo Abe
1964
The Monk
Matthew Lewis
1796
Supernatural relationship terror
Linguistic geometric terror
Biological apocalypse terror
Self-identity social terror
Gothic demonic terror
Other Titles:
- William Peter Blatty: The Exorcist - scathing critique of Catholicism terror
- Stephen King: Misery - writerly terror
- Toni Morrison: Beloved – motherly terror
- Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes - dark vanity terror
- Dan Simmons: The Terror – historical terror