Instructional Video2:02
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bella Mahaya Carter - Teachers Make a Difference - Jack Grapes

Higher Ed
Bella Mahaya Carter is the author of Where Do You Hang Your Hammock?: Finding Peace of Mind While You Write, Publish, and Promote Your Book. She is a creative writing teacher, empowerment coach, and speaker, and author of an...
Instructional Video1:42
Poetry Foundation

Jack Underwood reads "The Sky" by Natalie Shapero

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Jack Underwood (he/him/his) reads Natalie Shapero's poem, “The Sky
Instructional Video2:32
Poetry Foundation

Blythe Baird reads "The Purchase" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Blythe Baird (she/her/hers) reads Aimee Nezhukumatathil's poem, “The Purchase
Instructional Video2:11
Poetry Foundation

Ashley M. Jones reads "This Is Why People Burning Down Fast Food Joints and Whatnot"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Ashley M. Jones (she/her/hers) reads Jacqueline Allen Trimble's poem, “"This Is Why People Burning Down Fast Food Joints and Whatnot
Instructional Video1:37
Poetry Foundation

Lindsay Ellis reads "The Danger of Writing Defiant Verse"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Lindsay Ellis reads "The Danger of Writing Defiant Verse" by Dorothy Parker.
Instructional Video1:24
Poetry Foundation

John Hodgman reads "If You Find That Living is a Little Bit Sad" by Wendy Xu

Pre-K - Higher Ed
John Hodgman (he/him/his) reads Wendy' Xu's poem, "If You Find That Living is a Little Bit Sad
Instructional Video4:30
Poetry Foundation

Sholeh Wolpé reads "The Prince"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Sholeh Wolpé reads her poem "The Prince
Instructional Video3:07
Poetry Foundation

K-Ming Chang reads "I Watch Her Eat the Apple"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
K-Ming Chang reads "I Watch Her Eat the Apple", a poem by Natalie Diaz.
Instructional Video4:07
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Edwina Trentham - 'In Flight'

Higher Ed
Edwina Trentham is a Professor of English at Asnuntuck Community College, where she is also the Editor of Freshwater, a national poetry journal, which celebrated its Tenth Anniversary in May 2009. She has published poetry in a variety of...
Instructional Video1:20
Brainwaves Video Anthology

David Cappella - Teachers Make a Difference - The Physical Therapist

Higher Ed
A poet and teacher, David Cappella is a professor emeritus in the English department at Central Connecticut State University. He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of The Moves and of A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day. In...
Instructional Video2:15
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Charles Bernstein - 'Devils Dictionary'

Higher Ed
Charles Bernstein taught poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performance. He retired from Penn on June 30, 2019. Bernstein has published five collections of essays — Pitch of Poetry...
Instructional Video1:17
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bob Greenberg - 'Hope is the thing with feathers' by Emily Dickinson

Higher Ed
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. Hope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson - 1830-1886 “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And...
Instructional Video0:56
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

The Wedding | POEM

Pre-K - 5th
Michael Rosen performs The Wedding from ‘You Wait Till I’m Older Than You’ (Puffin Books).
Instructional Video5:10
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Spelling - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Pre-K - 5th
Spelling - This poem comes from 'When Did You Last Wash Your Feet?'
Instructional Video1:20
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Laurel S. Peterson "Silent but for the Birds"

Higher Ed
Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks: That’s the Way the Music Sounds, from Finishing Line Press (2009) and...
Instructional Video2:34
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Pegi Deitz Shea - Teachers Make a Difference - Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Higher Ed
Pegi Deitz Shea is an award-winning author and poet for all ages. She is a writing instructor at The Mark Twain House & Museum, School Literary Presenter at Children's Books and the First Poet Laureate at Town of Vernon, CT. She studied...
Instructional Video1:20
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Did You Know? In 60 Seconds: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Learn more about Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl."
Instructional Video3:13
Chinese Buddy

Spring Slumber (春眠) - 1200 Year-Old Chinese Poem into Song

9th - 12th
Spring Slumber (春眠) is a poem by the very famous poet 白居易 (bái jū yì) who lived from 772-846 AD during the Tang Dynasty.
Instructional Video1:33
Poetry Foundation

Ben Purkert reads "The Only Museum"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Ben Purkert reads his poem "The Only Museum
Instructional Video6:29
Poetry Foundation

Sarah Kay reads "Titanic"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Sarah Kay reads Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie's poem, "On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart"
Instructional Video2:46
Poetry Foundation

Sabrina Orah Mark reads "The Experiments Lasted Through the Winter"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Sabrina Orah Mark reads her poem The Experiments Lasted Through the Winter.
Instructional Video3:33
Poetry Foundation

Ruth Awad reads “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Ruth Awad reads her poem “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion
Instructional Video3:25
Poetry Foundation

Rachel Eliza Griffiths reads "Seeing the Body"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Rachel Eliza Griffiths (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "Seeing the Body
Instructional Video2:18
Poetry Foundation

K-Ming Chang reads "Symmetry"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
K-Ming Chang reads her poem "Symmetry