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Latest Episodes

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1
February 07, 2025

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
January 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 accountabili

An Introduction and Irony
January 24, 2025

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
January 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.

Unwoven Interview #2: Teacher Sarah Rusinowski
January 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.

Unwoven Interview #1: Dr. Jessica Manuel
January 04, 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.

Trailer: Literary Nomads
December 28, 2024

The Waywords Podcast is reborn as Literary Nomads: Wider explorations, broader embraces of reading, and (im)practical thinking!

Waypoint – The Shadow
December 20, 2024

A Winter Solstice story of 1907, when four women begin to tell stories around the fire. . . .

Waypoint – The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
December 20, 2023

A Winter Solstice tale by an old Irish storyteller, maybe even believable . . .

Waypoint – “The Doll” by Daphne du Maurier
December 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.