Instructional Video2:22
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Moth - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Pre-K - 5th
Moth - Read by Michael Rosen
Instructional Video6:10
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Linda Hillringhouse - Painting, Poetry and Imagination

Higher Ed
Linda Hillringhouse is a self-taught painter who has shown her work at many local museums and galleries throughout the Tri-State area including the Newark and Paterson Museums, the Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts at William Paterson...
Instructional Video4:01
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ian Manuel - Poetry Behind Bars

Higher Ed
When Ian Manuel was 13 years old, he was directed by some older juvenile boys to participate in an armed robbery. During the botched robbery attempt, a Tampa, FL woman (Debbie Baigrie) suffered a nonfatal gunshot wound. When Ian later...
Instructional Video3:11
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Donna Marie Merritt "JD"

Higher Ed
Donna Marie Merritt is the author of seven books of poetry . . . Bible Poems for Reflection and Response (2020), No Winter Maintenance: Pass at Your Own Risk (2017), We Walk Together (2015), Her House and Other Poems, (2013), What’s...
Instructional Video8:25
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ravi Shankar - Correctional: A Memoir

Higher Ed
Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of...
Instructional Video15:25
The Art Assignment

Having a Coke with Frank O'Hara

9th - 12th
Frank O'Hara is best known for his poetry, but in this Art Cooking we explore his life as a poet as well as an art curator at MoMA.
Instructional Video5:05
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Reginald Dwayne Betts - From Jail to Yale

Higher Ed
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a Ph.D. in Law candidate at Yale. His major research interests are administrative law, criminal law, empirical legal studies, and law and literature. He holds a B.A. from the University of Maryland and a J.D....
Instructional Video3:56
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Pat Mottola - Teachers Make a Difference - Will Hochman

Higher Ed
Pat Mottola teaches Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University, where she earned both an M.S. in Art Education and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She also teaches art and poetry to senior citizens throughout Connecticut....
Instructional Video1:08
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Edwina Trentham - Teachers Make a Difference - Tony Connor

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 Video1:26
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Vivian Shipley - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Sue Walker

Higher Ed
Vivian Shipley is the author of several books of poetry, including All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 2010), Greatest Hits: 1974–2010 (Pudding House Press, 2010), and Hardboot: Poems, New &...
Instructional Video3:17
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz "Yolie's Return"

Higher Ed
Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is an award-winning Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on racial literacy in teacher education, Black girl literacies, and Black and Latinx male high school...
Instructional Video3:39
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Antoinette Brim-Bell - 'The Poet is Freed'

Higher Ed
Antoinette Brim, author of These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love and Psalm of the Sunflower, is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a...
Instructional Video1:54
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ravi Shankar - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Jacobs & Lisa Russ Spaar

Higher Ed
Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of...
Instructional Video3:17
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Christine Beck - Teachers Make a Difference - Vivian Shipley

Higher Ed
Christine Beck holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree from Southern Connecticut State University and is the author of Blinding Light (Grayson Books 2013), I’m Dating Myself, (Dancing Girl Press 2015) and Stirred, Not...
Instructional Video4:26
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Shani Robinson - 'Lord, Why Did You Make Me Black' by RuNett Nia Ebo

Higher Ed
SHANI ROBINSON was born and raised in Atlanta and always knew that education would play a large part of her life. With all of the influential women in her life educators, including her mother who served as an educator for 35 years, Shani...
Instructional Video2:31
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura Teachers Make a Difference - Elena Caycedo

Higher Ed
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born poet, translator, and educator. Her honors include a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at The Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global...
Instructional Video2:03
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bill Holmes - Teachers Make a Difference - Lamont Steptoe

Higher Ed
Bill Holmes is a Philadelphia poet whose lifetime goal has been to become a successful writer and author. He is the author of the chapbook Illuminations, the spoken word CD Asphyxiation, and the newly released full-length poetry book...
Instructional Video4:18
Curated Video

Maya Angelou: the First Black Woman to be Featured on a United States Quarter Coin

9th - Higher Ed
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights, activist. She was the first Black woman to be featured on a United States quarter coin (25 cent coin) When she was eight, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and chose...
Instructional Video1:31
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Richard F. Thomas - Teachers Make a Difference - David Horn & Bob Dylan

Higher Ed
Richard F. Thomas, George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics, was born in London and brought up in New Zealand. He was educated at the University of Auckland (B.A. 1972; M.A. 1973), and at the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1977). He...
Instructional Video2:55
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Rennie McQuilkin - Teachers Make a Difference

Higher Ed
Rennie McQuilkin, has an extensive background participating in poetry readings and workshops in Connecticut, and beyond, has had a distinguished literary career with several published full-length collections of poetry. His work has...
Instructional Video4:19
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Clare Rossini - Teachers Make a Difference - Jane Cooper & Don Justice

Higher Ed
Clare Rossini has published three collections of poems, the most recent of which is Lingo (The University of Akron Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The...
Instructional Video14:38
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Christine Beck - 'Let's Get In This Car Together'

Higher Ed
Christine Beck holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree from Southern Connecticut State University and is the author of Blinding Light (Grayson Books 2013), I’m Dating Myself, (Dancing Girl Press 2015) and Stirred, Not...
Instructional Video3:21
Music Matters

Name the Composer Quiz! - #6 Do you know your classical composers?

9th - 12th
How well do you know your classical composers? Find out with our name the composer quiz! We present ten facts about a random composer, see if you can guess the correct answer by the end of the video.
Instructional Video3:14
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Randall Horton - Teachers Make a Difference - Sterling Plumpp

Higher Ed
Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and, most recently, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction. He is...