Poetry Foundation
Carly Joy Miller reads "Ceremonial Psalm"
Carly Joy Miller reads her poem "Ceremonial Psalm
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herman Beavers - 'Frederick Douglass' by Robert Hayden
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...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Orange Juice | POEM
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...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Language and Philosophy
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...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Block City | CLASSIC | Robert Louis Stevenson
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Victoria Huggins Peurifoy - “Daddy What Did They Do To You?"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - 'Why I Left Vienna'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
James Finnegan - 'Nowhere Wind'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charlie Rossiter - Teachers Make a Difference
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tony Fusco - “The Twilight of America"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Shane Strange "Ian Curtis Tours America"
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...
National Theatre
Translations: A Poem by Gearóid Mac Lochlainn
Liadán Dunlea and Fra Fee perform 'Translations' / 'Aistriúcháin', a poem by Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, at Southbank Centre's National Poetry Library.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Sheena Graham - "This World is Mine"
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...
Poetry Foundation
Tim Seibles reads "Poem at 64"
Tim Seibles (he/him/his) reads his poem, "Poem at 64
Poetry Foundation
Tabia Yapp reads "Magical Negro #217: Diana Ross Finishing a Rib in Alabama, 1990s"
Tabia Yapp reads "Magical Negro #217: Diana Ross Finishing a Rib in Alabama, 1990s", a poem by Morgan Parker.
Poetry Foundation
Natasha Huey reads "Ode to Nipples"
Natasha Huey (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "Ode to Nipples
Poetry Foundation
Naffisatou Koulibaly reads "Pretext" by Muggs Fogarty
Naffisatou Koulibaly (she/her/hers) reads Muggs Fogarty's poem, “Pretext
Poetry Foundation
Michael Gregory reads "Very Like a Whale"
Michael Gregory reads Ogden Nash's poem, "Very Like a Whale
Poetry Foundation
Lucas Mann reads "Conversion" by Matthew Olzmann
Lucas Mann (he/him/his) reads Matthew Olzmann's poem, “Conversion
Poetry Foundation
Kelly Davio reads "To My Seatmate, on a Cross-Country Flight"
Kelly Davio reads her poem, "To My Seatmate, on a Cross-Country Flight
Poetry Foundation
Julia Nunes reads "Variations"
Julia Nunes reads Robert Creeley's poem, "Variations
Poetry Foundation
J. Jennifer Espinoza reads "My Trans Body"
J. Jennifer Espinoza (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "My Trans Body
Poetry Foundation
Ilya Kaminsky reads “We Lived Happily During the War"
Ilya Kaminsky reads his poem “We Lived Happily During the War