Waywords Studio Full Slate

By Steve Chisnell

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May 23, 2025What I Get Wrong
23 May 2025
Episode 5.17 – What I Get Wrong
We close out the journey with a needed reflection, a look at what I’ve been doing, how it fits our collective needs, and what we might see for changes ahead. I reflect on the integration of skills in language, the role of thinking skills, and why reading and interpretation cannot be about objective deliverables.
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Reading Ahead, Journey 6:
Ursula K. Le Guin: “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow”: https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/LeGuin_VasterThanEmpires.pdf
Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”: https://archive.org/download/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-k-leguin/The%20Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas%20-%20Ursula%20K%20LeGuin.pdf
Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/
CHAPTERS
00:00 Announcement
00:56 Reflecting on the Wrong
08:13 Opening Theme
08:45 Nuts & Bolts
14:52 More Bolts Than Nuts
17:13 Interpretation and Intimidation
26:42 Getting It Right?
32:53 The Wrong Of It
39:47 A Bit of Daring
44:38 Outro and Credits
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Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-17-what-i-get-wrong
Have a Question? Literary Nomads Mailbag: https://forms.gle/MmhqcGgeLcjCaVK97
What are your thoughts on our discussion? Email me: [email protected]
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Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas.
Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.
Website: https://waywordsstudio.com
Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/
Instagram: @WaywordsStudio
Facebook: Waywords.Studio
YouTube: Waywords Studio
LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio
CREDITS:
Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
USING THIS WORK:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.
MLA CITATION:
Chisnell, Steve. “What I Get Wrong,’” Literary Nomads. Waywords Studio, 17 May 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/.
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May 16, 2025Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety
16 May 2025
Episode 5.16 – Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety
It’s time for the end of our carpe diem journey, and we celebrate with a congratulatory essay! Hey, why so glum?
We look at what has caused all this anxiety over the ostracized essay, rant against how traditional schooling has abused it, and offer some introductory ideas on how the best essays are essential to the literary tradition. And we all get to write one now, too!
Key Terms:
Conduit metaphor – A linguistic concept, that if we can structure, control, and limit the connotative diction in our writing, that our communication might travel from speaker to audience with minimal misunderstanding.
Essai – Verb, after the pioneering creator Michel de Montaigne; to try, to attempt, to explore, especially the exploring of one’s own thinking
Steve’s Poetic Response to Marvell: “To His Bold Master”: https://waywordsstudio.com/verse/to-his-bold-master/
Longform Essay YouTubers Recommended:
Deep Cuts – for lovers of music: ww w.youtube.com/c/deepcuts
In Praise of Shadows for horror history: w ww.youtube.com/@InPraiseofShadows
Defunctland for history of extinct theme park: w ww.youtube.com/@Defunctland
Jacob Geller, for video games, history, politics, empathy: w ww.youtube.com/@JacobGeller
Solar Sands, “of waking up”: ww w.youtube.com/@SolarSands
Jenny Nicholson, for popular culture: ww w.youtube.com/@JennyNicholson
PhilosophyTube with Abigail Thorn, giving away a philosophy degree: ww w.youtube.com/@PhilosophyTube
Traditional Essays Recommended:
Zadie Smith, Intimations
Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Martin Amis, The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump
Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/
CHAPTERS
00:00 Irony So Common It’s Cringe
05:59 Opening Theme
06:31 Why Write Back?
10:58 But Why Oh Why an Essay? The Conduit of Fear
23:33 Writing for Uncertainty
27:23 But What Do I Write About?
31:47 Yeah, But Who Is Reading This Thing?
35:19 Outro and Credits
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Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-16-writing-back-w-getting-over-our-essay-anxiety
Have a Question? Literary Nomads Mailbag: https://forms.gle/MmhqcGgeLcjCaVK97
What are your thoughts on our discussion? Email me: [email protected]
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Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas.
Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.
Website: https://waywordsstudio.com
Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/
Instagram: @WaywordsStudio
Facebook: Waywords.Studio
YouTube: Waywords Studio
LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio
CREDITS:
Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
USING THIS WORK:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.
MLA CITATION:
Chisnell, Steve. “Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety,’” Waywords Studio, 16 May 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/.
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May 09, 2025Bellow Seizes Our Day
9 May 2025
Episode 5.15 – Bellow Seizes Our Day
Sure we can philosophize, but what happens when we put carpe diem to the test in the modern world of capital?
We work through Saul Bellow’s approach to carpe diem, how his ironies may not all be what we expect them to be, what separates Seize the Day from other modernist American literature, and how he spins our ethical discussion on carpe diem with still more complexity. Our analysis will focus on the final mystifying scene of the novel. Oh, and we also talk about my first efforts in business!
Key Terms:
Trickster figure – Generally a trouble-making, cunning, or humorous character who upsets social norms. Trickster figures are often complex or paradoxical, and they are almost always transformational. Think of Loki in mythology, Bart Simpson, the Chesire Cat in Alice’s Wonderland, Bugs Bunny, Batman’s Joker, or Q in Star Trek.
The American Dream – “A kind of romantic expectation, a belief in the possibility of achieving some kind of glowing future through hard work and sincere devotion” (Walter Brylowski).
Our Reading & Interpretation Process Complete:
Notice – What text stands out in the reading?
Significance – What possible meanings are in that text?
Pattern – What pattern forms amongst these possible meanings?
Coherence – Does the pattern hold together in the total work?
The closing paragraph of Seize the Day which we focus our time on:
“The flowers and lights fused ecstatically in Wilhelm’s blind, wet eyes; the heavy sea-like music came up to his ears. It poured into him where he had hidden himself in the center of a crowd by the great happy oblivion of tears. He heard it and sank deeper than sorrow, through torn sobs and cries toward the consummation of his heart’s ultimate need.”
Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/
CHAPTERS
00:00 The Dream
05:56 Opening Theme
06:28 A Glowing Future
11:53 Bellow’s ‘Seize the Day’ in Brief
15:56 Capitalism and Alienation
22:50 Seizing and Seducing
36:53 Ethics of a Machine
43:17 Answering the Question
52:04 Outro and Credits
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Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-15-bellow-seizes-our-day
Have a Question? Literary Nomads Mailbag: https://forms.gle/MmhqcGgeLcjCaVK97
What are your thoughts on our discussion? Email me: [email protected]
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Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas.
Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.
Website: https://waywordsstudio.com
Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/
Instagram: @WaywordsStudio
Facebook: Waywords.Studio
YouTube: Waywords Studio
LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio
CREDITS:
Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
USING THIS WORK:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.
MLA CITATION:
Chisnell, Steve. “Bellow Seizes Our Day,’” Waywords Studio, 9 May 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/.
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May 02, 2025Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme
2 May 2025
Episode 5.14 – Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme
Finding carpe diem in art and literature; abandoning “seize the day” and ending in uncertainty.
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?
In a continuation of our carpe diem talk last episode, we return to Roman Krznaric, to Rainer Maria Rilke’s sonnet “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” and consider immanence, a kind of meaningfulness which “seize the day” might never discover.
Key Terms:
immanence – something, perhaps abstract or spiritual, which is contained entirely within an object (naturally, divinely, permanently)
Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/
CHAPTERS
00:00 The Mysteries of Art
05:47 Opening Theme
06:19 Merking “Seized”
13:58 Rilke: Broken Art & Potent Readings
24:07 Ethics Tests – A Reflection
30:03 So What Do We Carpe?
36:23 Outro and Credits
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Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-14-rilke-and-carpe-dont-rhyme
Have a Question? Literary Nomads Mailbag: https://forms.gle/MmhqcGgeLcjCaVK97
What are your thoughts on our discussion? Email me: [email protected]
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Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas.
Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.
Website: https://waywordsstudio.com
Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/
Instagram: @WaywordsStudio
Facebook: Waywords.Studio
YouTube: Waywords Studio
LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio
CREDITS:
Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
USING THIS WORK:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.
MLA CITATION:
Chisnell, Steve. “Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme,’” Waywords Studio, 2 May 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/.
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38min
April 25, 2025Carpe All Over the Place
25 April 2025
Episode 5.13 – Carpe All Over the Place
How far away are we from the original meaning of carpe diem? And does it matter?
Looking back across our wanderings so far, it seems that our literature and culture has gotten fairly sloppy (or cavalier?) in its popular imagination of philosophy, perhaps dangerously so. We investigate those understandings, capturing several modern approaches to carpe diem and contrasting them dramatically to where Epicurus and friends began.
Along the way, we visit Thoreau, Rilke, and contemporary thinker/philosopher Roman Krznaric.
Key Terms:
Eudaimonia (a deep well-being)
Ataraxia (peace of mind)
Aponia (freedom from pain)
Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/
CHAPTERS
00:00 Thoreau vs Pop Culture
05:45 Opening Theme
06:17 Recap: Seize the Day, We Barely Knew You
12:03 Poly-Carpes
19:13 An Epicurean Ideal?
28:47 Krznaric’s Carpe
31:46 Outro and Credits
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Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-13-carpe-all-over-the-place
Have a Question? Literary Nomads Mailbag: https://forms.gle/MmhqcGgeLcjCaVK97
What are your thoughts on our discussion? Email me: [email protected]
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Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas.
Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.
Website: https://waywordsstudio.com
Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/
Instagram: @WaywordsStudio
Facebook: Waywords.Studio
YouTube: Waywords Studio
LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio
CREDITS:
Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
USING THIS WORK:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.
MLA CITATION:
Chisnell, Steve. “Carpe All Over the Place,’” Waywords Studio, 25 April 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/.
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April 18, 2025Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”
18 April 2025
Episode 5.12 – Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”
Can some fan-fiction teach us more about carpe diem than a classic Roman poet?
Let’s get over ourselves a bit and give this fan-produced Star Trek episode a chance. How we decide literary quality, how we work with allusion, and how we interpret contemporary texts are all fair game in this episode that finds some surprising depth in the screenwriting in a science fiction literary niche.
Watch the New Voyages episode, “World Enough and Time” (2008): https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4TC5wl0IzE
Our Steps In Literary Interpretation:
Notice
Significance
Pattern
(tba)
Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/
CHAPTERS
00:00 Trekkie Love
03:35 Theme
04:08 Un-Trashing Mass Culture
10:02 New Voyages Backgrounder
14:18 Alluding to “World Enough and Time”
17:42 Star Trek Answers Marvell (All Spoilers!)
27:52 Did We Get an Answer?
34:42 Outro & Credits
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Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-12-star-trek-world-enough-and-time
Have a Question? Literary Nomads Mailbag: https://forms.gle/MmhqcGgeLcjCaVK97
What are your thoughts on our discussion? Email me: [email protected]
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Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas.
Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.
Website: https://waywordsstudio.com
Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/
Instagram: @WaywordsStudio
Facebook: Waywords.Studio
YouTube: Waywords Studio
LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio
CREDITS:
Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
USING THIS WORK:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.
MLA CITATION:
Chisnell, Steve. “Star Trek: ‘World Enough and Time’,’” Waywords Studio, 18 April 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/.
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April 11, 2025 Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11
11 April 2025
Episode 5.11 – Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11
Can an ancient Roman poet offer insight into carpe diem? Perhaps, but then again . . .
Along the way, we talk about Catullus, Horace and his Odes, the translation of “seize the day” vs. “pluck” or “harvest,” a close analysis of Ode 1.11’s imagery and possible subtext, parallels between Horace and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” “Seize the Day” and popular imagination, Roman poetic meter and choriambs, a possible Epicurean revision through harvest metaphors, and the sorting of domestic pigs. The Mailbag segment reminds listeners how much material from Waywords is Creative Commons copyright.
https://waywordsstudio.com
Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/
CHAPTERS
00:00 My Poem Asks a Question
06:02 Opening Theme
06:35 Odes, Book 1, Poem 11
12:37 Mistranslation’s Tradition
20:34 Reconciliations
23:32 Idealism and Harvests
28:18 Mailbag: Can I Get a Copy of Your Poem?
30:45 Closing Theme
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Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-not-horacing-around/
Have a Question? Literary Nomads Mailbag: https://forms.gle/MmhqcGgeLcjCaVK97
What are your thoughts on our discussion? Email me: [email protected]
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Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas.
Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.
Website: https://waywordsstudio.com
Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/
Instagram: @WaywordsStudio
Facebook: Waywords.Studio
YouTube: Waywords Studio
LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio
CREDITS:
Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
USING THIS WORK:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.
MLA CITATION:
Chisnell, Steve. “Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11,’” Waywords Studio, 11 April 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/.
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32min
April 04, 2025Writing Back: Answering Marvell
4 April 2025
Episode 5.10 – Writing Back: Answering Marvell
Writing back to authors and their works is essential to the literary culture; it also helps us answer our essential questions. Let’s do some of that, then!
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Chapters
00:00 ERROR #5210b
05:10 Intro Theme
05:42 Matching Sabers
09:00 The Sport of Kings
13:02 What’s On Your Mind? Marvell Re-Ironied
19:19 The School of Reply
23:07 “To His Bold Master”
25:20 What To Do With It
28:33 Outro and Credits
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Poems Cited:
Finch, Annie – “Coy Mistress” – https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46082/coy-mistress
Hope, A D – “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell” – https://allpoetry.com/His-Coy-Mistress-To-Mr.-Marvell
Send me your poetry replies! Email me: [email protected]
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Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/marvell/
Have a Question? Literary Nomads Mailbag: https://forms.gle/MmhqcGgeLcjCaVK97
Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-10-writing-back-answering-marvell
What are your thoughts on our discussion? Email me: [email protected]
===
Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas.
Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.
Website: https://waywordsstudio.com
Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/
Instagram: @WaywordsStudio
Facebook: Waywords.Studio
YouTube: Waywords Studio
LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio
CREDITS:
Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)
Transitions by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
USING THIS WORK:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.
MLA CITATION:
Chisnell, Steve. “Writing Back: Answering Marvell.” Waywords Studio, 4 April 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/writing-back-answering-marvell.
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30min
March 28, 2025 Kipling’s “If” and Irony-Hunting

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47min
March 21, 2025 Dorian Gray and Difficult Conversations

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50min

FAQs about Waywords Studio Full Slate:

How many episodes does Waywords Studio Full Slate have?

The podcast currently has 89 episodes available.