Literary Nomads for Teachers

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Literary Nomads

Steve Chisnell

60 episodes

3 days ago

Join us 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. Explore familiar and unfamiliar reads, discovering ways to read, ways to know, and ways to make meaning. For teachers, students, and lovers of literature, Waywords can be listened to on its own but also comes with a host of bonus materials on its website for those who wish to go further.
I can’t promise what we’ll find along our paths each time, only that we will meet it together.

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Literary Nomads for Teachers

Literary Nomads

56 minutes 3 seconds

1 month ago

Literary Nomads for Teachers

10 Oct 2025

Episode 0.3 - Literary Nomads for Teachers

What is this podcast? I recommend you start here, with this introduction to Literary Nomads and get a taste of what the larger series offers!

And, to be sure I've sold you, we'll offer some fresh approaches to the most-taught poem in the US, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." Listen and find out how we're doing a different kind of reading and learning from everybody else. And you know why? "That's just the way it is."

Bruce Hornsby's "The Road Not Taken": www. youtube.com/watch?v=C555rExz4ds

CHAPTERS

00:00 Hornsby Meets Frost Meets Us
04:13 Opening Theme
04:47 Frost a la Mode
13:05 Reading - Frost: "The Road Not Taken"
14:20 The Basics, Wrong and Less Wrong
22:46 Unresolved Tension
32:12 Aporia
39:41 Darker Cynicism
45:19 Over My Abjections
51:13 Critical Shifts
54:47 Closing Credits

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New to Literary Nomads? You may also want to check out episode 5.00 to find out what we're all about: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/an-introduction-and-irony/

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Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/general/transcript/0-2-literary-nomads-for-students

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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/

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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. “Literary Nomads for Teachers,” Literary Nomads. Waywords Studio, 10 Oct 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords-podcast/