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
Reading and Living in Uncertainty
3/14/2025
What do we mean by uncertainty in reading? And why do we have to look for it?
Duration:00:39:51
What I Carry With Me
3/7/2025
What questions do we carry with us as we leave Marvell's famous poem?
Duration:00:29:10
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 4
2/28/2025
Who is the speaker in this poem? Who the audience? Who the Marvell?
Duration:00:54:15
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 3
2/21/2025
We trace Marvell's poetry back to its perhaps distressing roots.
Duration:00:42:46
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2
2/14/2025
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.
Duration:00:35:22
Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability
1/31/2025
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).
Duration:00:31:56
An Introduction and Irony
1/24/2025
What is Literary Nomads, anyway? And what does that have to do with Radiohead, Godzilla, professorial assault, and irony?
Duration:00:26:46
Unwoven Interview #3: Poet Kelly Porter
1/17/2025
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.
Duration:00:52:24
Unwoven Interview #2: Teacher Sarah Rusinowski
1/10/2025
The second of three full interviews from the book launch of my poetry book Unwoven. Here, teacher Sarah Rusinowski considers classroom applications for the book.
Duration:00:29:13
Unwoven Interview #1: Dr. Jessica Manuel
1/4/2025
The first of three full interviews from the book launch of my poetry book Unwoven. Here, Dr. Jessica Manuel digs at some of the themes and motivations for the book.
Duration:00:55:40
Trailer: Literary Nomads
12/28/2024
The Waywords Podcast is reborn as Literary Nomads: Wider explorations, broader embraces of reading, and (im)practical thinking!
Duration:00:01:33
Waypoint – The Shadow
12/20/2024
A Winter Solstice story of 1907, when four women begin to tell stories around the fire. . . .
Duration:00:30:16
Waypoint – The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
12/20/2023
A Winter Solstice tale by an old Irish storyteller, maybe even believable . . .
Duration:00:21:21
Waypoint – “The Doll” by Daphne du Maurier
12/21/2022
A Winter Solstice tale of a peculiar kind of terror, this story was recently discovered (2011) among a collection of du Maurier's works completed around the age of 21. This story has mature themes.
Duration:00:38:03
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2
10/16/2022
We accuse Marvell of verbal assault and find that he was hardly alone.
Duration:00:35:23
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1
10/7/2022
What do we do with--how do we read--can we make us of--a classic and famous metaphysical poem which is also misogynistic?
Duration:00:33:09
Waywords Podcast Update – Sept 30
9/30/2022
The Waywords Podcast is back with new episodes beginning next week!
Duration:00:01:06
Irony and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
7/12/2022
An introduction or review to the concept of irony in literature, helpful to those who want to better understand the "twist" ending to the story.
Duration:00:11:35
Reading of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
6/20/2022
A reading of the short story in anticipation of our first full episode on the Kate Chopin short. story. “There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully.”
Duration:00:08:27
Pearson’s Archetypes
1/15/2022
Carol Pearson's work following Carl Jung offers us a way to transform our understanding of our own lives, and also how we read the narratives we have so long been taught. I review her strategies for using the archetypes and review her online assessment tool, the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator.
Duration:00:24:57