Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bob Greenberg - 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bessy Reyna "I Was Born On An Island"
Bessy Reyna is the author of two bilingual books of poetry, The Battlefield of Your Body (Hill-Stead Museum, 2005) and Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover/ Memorias de la amante infiel (tunAstral, A.C., 2010, Toluca Mexico). A chapbook of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat McLean-Smith “For Sonia”
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
Donna Marie Merritt "I Don't Wish Them Ill"
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...
Curated Video
Little Boy Blue | Children Songs | Children Rhymes | The Kiboomers
Little Boy Blue Lyrics Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn. The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Where is the boy that looks after the sheep? "He's under the haycock, fast asleep." Will you wake him? "No, not I; For if I...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat Mottola - History Lesson
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....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tony Connor - 'A Brief Account at Fifty'
Born in Manchester, British poet and playwright John Anthony (Tony) Connor left school at 14 and spent 26 years as a textile designer, also serving in the Royal Army. He earned an MA at the University of Manchester. With poet Robin...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Linda Hillringhouse - 'Black Rattle'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Daniel Donaghy - 'Somerset'
Daniel Donaghy is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Somerset, which was named co-winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize. His previous poetry collections are Start with the Trouble (University of Arkansas Press,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charlie Rossiter 'YIN' (when I am a woman)
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
Bob Greenberg - 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tony Fusco - "Java Scripture”
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...
Poetry Foundation
Carl Phillips reads “Effort at Speech Between Two People”
Carl Phillips reads “Effort at Speech Between Two People” by Muriel Rukeyser.
Poetry Foundation
Jane Wong reads “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly”
Jane Wong reads her poem “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly”.
Poetry Foundation
Andrea Gibson reads "Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps"
Andrea Gibson (they/them) reads their poem, "Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rennie McQuilkin - 'Christmas Eve Afternoon at Braddock Bay'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mark Hillringhouse - 'Here'
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
Charles Bernstein - PennSound - The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marilyn Nelson - 'On Abrigador Hill'
Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. Her critically acclaimed books for young adults include A Wreath for Emmett Till and the ground breaking Carver: A Life in Poems, a...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bessy Reyna "What We Left Behind"
Bessy Reyna is the author of two bilingual books of poetry, The Battlefield of Your Body (Hill-Stead Museum, 2005) and Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover/ Memorias de la amante infiel (tunAstral, A.C., 2010, Toluca Mexico). A chapbook of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Van Hartmann "Fiddleheads"
Van Hartmann teaches English at Manhattanville College. He received an undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University and a doctorate in English from UNC at Chapel Hill. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals. His first...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bob Greenberg - 'Fog' by Carl Sandburg
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. FOG by: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Solomon The Cat - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen performs Solomon The Cat from ‘Selected Poems’ (Penguin Books).
Financial Times
I wandered lonely as a cloud (in lockdown), with Simon Russell Beale
The actor performs William Wordsworth's most famous poem, which takes on new meaning amid the coronavirus crisis. He will be performing more poems at the upcoming FT Weekend Festival.