Instructional Video3:53
Poetry Foundation

Emily Graslie reads “First Encounter Beach”

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Emily Graslie reads Alison Hawthorne Deming's poem, "First Encounter Beach
Instructional Video1:23
Poetry Foundation

Eduardo C. Corral reads "Kinds of Blue #76 (Evening Snow)"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Eduardo C. Corral reads Don McKay's poem, "Kinds of Blue #76 (Evening Snow)
Instructional Video2:16
Poetry Foundation

Carly Joy Miller reads "Ceremonial Psalm"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Carly Joy Miller reads her poem "Ceremonial Psalm
Instructional Video4:01
Poetry Foundation

Rachel Wiley reads "Red Sugar" by Jan Beatty

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Rachel Wiley (she/her/hers) reads Jan Beatty's poem, “Red Sugar
Instructional Video1:37
Poetry Foundation

Ilyus Evander reads "In the Dream Where I Wake Up in My Physics Class Naked" by torrin a. greathouse

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Ilyus Evander (they/them) reads torrin a. greathouse's poem, “In the Dream Where I Wake Up in My Physics Class Naked
Instructional Video1:36
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Herman Beavers - 'Frederick Douglass' by Robert Hayden

Higher Ed
Herman Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses on Southern Modernism, 20th...
Instructional Video4:03
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Orange Juice | POEM

Pre-K - 5th
Orange Juice | POEM Someone was stealing our orange juice! But who? We get orange juice delivered to our door with the milk, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. We get one pint of milk one carton of orange juice. So, one Monday morning I...
Instructional Video8:31
Institute of Art and Ideas

Language and Philosophy

Higher Ed
The power of words is a wonder, and language perhaps our greatest skill. Yet the gap between the sound of a bell and its description is huge. Are the limits to language so profound that the big questions of science and philosophy are...
Instructional Video1:28
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Block City | CLASSIC | Robert Louis Stevenson

Pre-K - 5th
Block City | CLASSIC | Robert Louis Stevenson Poem performed by Michael Rosen. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go...
Instructional Video3:21
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Victoria Huggins Peurifoy - “Daddy What Did They Do To You?"

Higher Ed
Victoria Huggins Peurifoy is a retired federal employee. She is a poet, spoken-word artist, author, ghostwriter, photographer, facilitator, student, mother of four, and a grandmother of eight. A native of West Philadelphia, she currently...
Instructional Video1:26
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Richard Deming - 'Why I Left Vienna'

Higher Ed
Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber...
Instructional Video2:24
Brainwaves Video Anthology

James Finnegan - 'Nowhere Wind'

Higher Ed
During his senior year in college as a business major, a course in creative writing changed James Finnegan’s life. Until that time, he had thought of poetry as a relatively antique art form. But an excellent teacher exposed him to the...
Instructional Video1:59
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Charlie Rossiter - Teachers Make a Difference

Higher Ed
Charles Rossiter, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient and five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, has led workshops and taught at literary festivals, community organizations, libraries, prisons and schools from 10th grade to...
Instructional Video2:05
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Tony Fusco - “The Twilight of America"

Higher Ed
Tony Fusco, is a West Haven resident and was named Poet Laureate for the City of West Haven in April of 2019. and is also Co- President and Past-President of the CT Poetry Society. He has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from...
Instructional Video1:56
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Shane Strange "Ian Curtis Tours America"

Higher Ed
Shane Strange’s writing has appeared in various print and online journals in Australia and internationally. He is the author of two chapbooks Notes to the Reader and Dark Corner. His first collection of poetry All Suspicions Have Been...
Instructional Video2:22
National Theatre

Translations: A Poem by Gearóid Mac Lochlainn

9th - 12th
Liadán Dunlea and Fra Fee perform 'Translations' / 'Aistriúcháin', a poem by Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, at Southbank Centre's National Poetry Library.
Instructional Video2:39
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Sheena Graham - "This World is Mine"

Higher Ed
Sheena Graham was educated in the Public School System of Ansonia, Connecticut. She received her B.S. in Music Education from Western Connecticut State University, and 30+from St. Joseph's and Southern CT State Universities. She became...
Instructional Video2:49
Poetry Foundation

J. Jennifer Espinoza reads "My Trans Body"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
J. Jennifer Espinoza (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "My Trans Body
Instructional Video1:04
Poetry Foundation

Gary Dop reads "How We Live"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Gary Dop reads Jo McDougall's poem, "How We Live
Instructional Video1:33
Poetry Foundation

Franny Choi reads "Door in the Mountain" by Jean Valentine

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Franny Choi (she/her/hers) reads the poem, "Door in the Mountain" by Jean Valentine.
Instructional Video5:06
Poetry Foundation

Tim Seibles reads "Poem at 64"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Tim Seibles (he/him/his) reads his poem, "Poem at 64
Instructional Video2:44
Poetry Foundation

Natasha Huey reads "Ode to Nipples"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Natasha Huey (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "Ode to Nipples
Instructional Video4:11
Poetry Foundation

Naffisatou Koulibaly reads "Pretext" by Muggs Fogarty

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Naffisatou Koulibaly (she/her/hers) reads Muggs Fogarty's poem, “Pretext
Instructional Video2:17
Poetry Foundation

Kelly Davio reads "To My Seatmate, on a Cross-Country Flight"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Kelly Davio reads her poem, "To My Seatmate, on a Cross-Country Flight