Lael Ewy
Volunteer Language CommentatorLael Ewy is a co-founder and editor of EastWesterly Review, a journal of literary satire at www.postmodernvillage.com, and a writer whose work has appeared in such venues as Denver Quarterly and New Orleans Review and has been anthologized in Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh.
He provided commentary for the Wichita City Paper and articles for Naked City.
He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a Bachelor of General Studies from Wichita State. Lael supports his writing and reading habits as a lecturer in English at WSU and as a peer educator at WSU's Center for Community Support and Research.
He runs an unaccredited Volvo hospice and is the current caretaker of a family heirloom, a 1965 Ford Mustang.
For fun he wrestles philosophy and literary theory.
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As a writer and a teacher of writing, I worry constantly about the death of writing, and I worry that emoji are leading the charge.The smartphone has… -
The word “tech” has become ubiquitous.It’s a descriptor: high tech, tech geeks, tech jobs—all these refer to that which revolves around microchips and the… -
“AI” is a term that crops up with increasing frequency as automated systems perform functions once squarely in the realm of human thought and control.An… -
The word “regulation” takes on different meanings depending on where you stand.Libertarians tend to bemoan it. Environmentalists are likely on board.They… -
I started worrying about the word “idiot” while discussing whether or not our smartphones are making us stupid.The word “idiot” shares its roots with… -
When you think about a word like “organic,” we think about how it’s seeded throughout the language.Chemists might contend that “organic” refers to… -
It seems like it will never arrive. But once it does, spring seems like the the only possible way to be.We use the word spring for that time of year when… -
“Inflection point” is a term originating in mathematics that describes the point on a curve at which the direction of the curve changes.Business seems to… -
Considering how much time we spend with screens, we don’t spend much of that talking about the word “screen” and all the ways we use it.The screen on your… -
It’s not so much that there’s more insulting language these days but that it isn’t very good.Calling a Millennial lazy or entitled, for example, simply…
