Literary Nomads
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!
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Episodes (151)
Otium and The Moral Philosopher – William James
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Marvell’s Garden and Ours – Otium
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Vaster Than Empires – Le Guin
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Signpost – Pretty Gardens in Paint
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Trailer: Journey 6
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What I Get Wrong
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Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety
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Bellow Seizes Our Day
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Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme
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Carpe All Over the Place
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Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”
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Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11
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Writing Back: Answering Marvell
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Kipling’s “If” and Irony-Hunting
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Dorian Gray and Difficult Conversations
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Reading and Living in Uncertainty
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What I Carry With Me
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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 4
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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 3
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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2
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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1
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Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability
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An Introduction and Irony
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Unwoven Interview #3: Poet Kelly Porter
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Unwoven Interview #2: Teacher Sarah Rusinowski
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Unwoven Interview #1: Dr. Jessica Manuel
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Trailer: Literary Nomads
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Waypoint – The Shadow
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Waypoint – The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
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Waypoint – “The Doll” by Daphne du Maurier
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Pearson’s Archetypes
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Waypoint: Theophile Gautier’s “Clarimonde”
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Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits – Episode 4
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The Original
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Adichie – “Tomorrow is Too Far” – Episode 3
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False Consciousness – Authoring Good and Evil
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Anonymous – “Fowles in the Frith” – Episode 2
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Intentional Fowls and Fallacies
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WayPoint: Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”
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Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” – Episode 1
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Irony and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
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Reading of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
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The Waywords Podcast Trailer
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