Literary Nomads
Education Podcasts
Join me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read. For teachers, students, and lovers of reading, we will discover new paths to understanding!
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
Join me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read. For teachers, students, and lovers of reading, we will discover new paths to understanding!
Twitter:
@WaywordsStudio
Language:
English
Contact:
2483468166
Website:
https://waywordsstudio.com/
Email:
steve.chisnell@gmail.com
Episodes
Le Guin – What I Carry With Me
9/19/2025
Now that we've wrestled in and with Omelas for a bit, what questions remain for us to take forward on our journey? We're walking away from Omelas, but let's have an idea where we're going.
Duration:00:39:50
Le Guin Part 5: Q&A
9/12/2025
Listeners offer their questions from narrator trust to activism to teaching controversy. I rant--or respond--back.
Duration:00:55:08
Le Guin Part 4: The Ones Who Stay – N. K. Jemisin
9/5/2025
Can we pull this utopia dilemma together? Or will we add even more levels of complication?
Duration:01:10:07
Le Guin Part 3: The Reader’s Labyrinth
8/30/2025
Sure, the Omelas dilemma is tough, but at least we have our narrator as ally, right? Right? Perhaps the real horror in Omelas has less to do with the child at its center.
Duration:00:41:32
Le Guin 2: Architectures of Happiness
8/23/2025
Is this story really about that suffering child? Or is it more about how we wall its suffering out, then invite it back in?
Duration:00:45:12
Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain
8/15/2025
At last we settle in to think about Le Guin's Omelas story and set aside some common approaches to it. The first of several parts.
Duration:00:50:28
Gardens of Imagination – Narrative Utopias
8/8/2025
Let's niche down into a small sub-genre of fantasy and explore our desire for it, the classic utopia!
Duration:00:35:33
In Defense of Fantasy
8/1/2025
Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!
Duration:00:47:49
Stephen King Meets Shel Silverstein: Formalism and Trope in Story
7/25/2025
What do a children's story and horror film have in common? Maybe our Suffering Child question, with very different approaches to it.
Duration:00:54:11
Negotiating for Space: Compromise and Flag-Planting
7/18/2025
This is getting challenging. What are we to do with the Suffering Child question? And on which form of suffering do I plant my flag of resistance? Dostoevsky and Langston Hughes both offer clues.
Duration:00:36:01
Reading: “Rebellion” from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
7/11/2025
Still another famous writer has posed the Le Guin question, and he did it in one of Russia's most famous novels, The Brothers Karamazov. Here it is.
Duration:00:38:14
Otium and The Moral Philosopher – William James
7/4/2025
Le Guin leans on an essay by William James, but what does that have to do with all our garden talk? It's about our blind spots and our privilege.
Duration:00:33:53
Marvell’s Garden and Ours – Otium
6/27/2025
Speaking of links back to Andrew Marvell's poetry--weren't we?--we expose some of our misapprehensions about nature, leisure, and work. And we read Marvell's poem "The Garden" while we think green thoughts about it.
Duration:00:38:51
Vaster Than Empires – Le Guin
6/20/2025
What does it mean to embrace "Other"? And how might we understand carpe diem if we truly had "world enough and time?" Le Guin shows us in her famous science fiction short story.
Duration:00:48:59
Signpost – Pretty Gardens in Paint
6/13/2025
Where we've been and where we're going, and we take a pause in a museum gallery, too!
Duration:00:52:36
Trailer: Journey 6
5/30/2025
Looking ahead at Season 6: Ursula K. Le Guin's story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," and all the wrestling we do with dilemmas of ethics.
Duration:00:04:30
What I Get Wrong
5/23/2025
We finish a carpe diem journey and I reflect back on what I've learned, what I believe, and where we are going next.
Duration:00:45:55
Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety
5/16/2025
It's time for the end of our carpe diem journey, and we celebrate with a congratulatory essay! Hey, why so glum?
Duration:00:36:35
Bellow Seizes Our Day
5/9/2025
Sure we can philosophize, but what happens when we put carpe diem to the test in the modern world of capital?
Duration:00:53:13
Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme
5/2/2025
What is required of us to find the power and meaning in art? in poetry? Is it related to carpe diem? And does it give us any guidance in how to approach meaningful lives?
Duration:00:37:23