Religion for Breakfast
Is Marvel's Loki Accurate?
In this episode we examine the topic: Is Marvel's Loki Accurate?
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz "Yolie's Return"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bill Holmes "Legacy"
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...
The Kiboomers
Mary Had A Little Lamb | Nursery Rhymes | Children Songs | Baby Songs | The Kiboomers
MAY HAD A LITTLE LAMB LYRICS
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb
Mary had a little lamb
It's fleece was white as snow.
Everywhere that Mary went
Mary went, Mary went
Everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
It...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Joseph Ross "Martin Luther King - Epilogue"
Joseph Ross is the author of four books of poetry: Raising King (forthcoming in 2020), Ache (2017), Gospel of Dust (2013), and Meeting Bone Man (2012). His poetry has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Randall Horton - Write and Wrong One Man's Journey
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...
Good Words
Thinking Differently is Part of Autism
Each year, thousands of children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. People with autism may learn, think, communicate, and behave in ways that are considered unorthodox, or different from what is traditionally expected. Rather...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat McLean-Smith “My Gift”
Pat McLean-Smith, is a published poet and teaching artist. She is the author of two books of poetry and the recipient of several awards. Including 1st place for the Sonia Sanchez/Audre Lorde Poetry Competition, 2nd place for Judith Stark...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mercer Hall - Teachers Make a Difference - My 6th Grade English Teacher
Mercer Hall has been teaching for over sixteen years at an independent school on Long Island, New York. He is a five-time honoree as Teacher Of The Year, and he has been awarded both the Thomas J. Reid Excellence In Teaching Award and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Antoinette Brim-Bell - 'The Poet is Freed'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bob Greenberg - 'This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams'
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ravi Shankar "Carousel"
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...
The Art Assignment
Do Not Try to Eat This
Dada was a movement known for collage, upturned urinals, and its radicality--a reaction to the horrors of World War I. It was NOT known for its food, but in 1961 artist Man Ray offered this "Menu for a Dadaist Day," and we cooked it for...
Oxford Comma
End of the World: The Second Coming
Many are surprised to learnt that both a collection of essays about 1960s culture and the most famous Nigerian novel of all time both take their titles from an old Irish poem. Keep watching for a reading, summary, and analysis of William...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - 'How Long The Long Winter'
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita “Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. Nationally and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ciaran Berry - Teachers Make a Difference - Tom Walsh & Philip Levine
Ciaran Berry is an Irish poet who has spent the last decade and a half living, writing, and teaching in the United States. His poetry collections are The Sphere of Birds (2008, Gallery Press/Southern Illinois University Press) and The...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - Teachers Make a Difference - John Allen, Louis Rubin Jr and George Garrett
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita “Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. Nationally and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Shani Robinson - 'Lord, Why Did You Make Me Black' by RuNett Nia Ebo
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ciaran Berry - 'Liner Notes'
Ciaran Berry is an Irish poet who has spent the last decade and a half living, writing, and teaching in the United States. His poetry collections are The Sphere of Birds (2008, Gallery Press/Southern Illinois University Press) and The...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mark Hillringhouse - Teachers Make a Difference - Juana Ortiz
Mark Hillringhouse is a published poet, essayist, and photographer whose works have been widely exhibited in area galleries. His photo-essay on the Passaic River was published in the American Poetry Review and his photography and writing...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rozanna Lilley "The Forgotten War"
Rozanna Lilley grew up in South Perth, the youngest of five children. Her parents – Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley – were both left wing radicals and writers. They moved to Sydney in Lilley’s last year of primary school. After school,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura Teachers Make a Difference - Elena Caycedo
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...
Oxford Comma
Love Poem or Insulting: My Misstress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
Scholars debate what exactly Shakespeare meant when he wrote these famous words in his mysterious sonnets. For some, including my wife, it's the greatest love poem of all time. For others, it's one big burn. We'll try to answer that...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat Mottola - Most Times
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....