Instructional Video1:48
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura "Forage"

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 Video4:06
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bella Mahaya Carter "Messa Road"

Higher Ed
Bella Mahaya Carter is the author of Where Do You Hang Your Hammock?: Finding Peace of Mind While You Write, Publish, and Promote Your Book. She is a creative writing teacher, empowerment coach, and speaker, and author of an...
Instructional Video2:01
Poetry Foundation

Lupita Limón Corrales reads "A Car Crash is Not a Poem"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Lupita Limón Corrales (she/they) reads thier poem, “A Car Crash is Not a Poem
Instructional Video3:35
Poetry Foundation

Rachel Wiley reads "The Mother Riddle"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Rachel Wiley (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “The Mother Riddle
Instructional Video6:32
Poetry Foundation

Roya Marsh reads "Blk Anger"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Roya Marsh (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “Blk Anger" to be published by Feminist Press.
Instructional Video2:53
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Clare Rossini - 'The Great Chain of Being'

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 Video1:52
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Richard Deming - 'Film Threat'

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 Video2:40
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Maria Sassi 'Order of Water and Sun'

Higher Ed
Maria Sassi, who was for several years Poet Laureate of West Hartford, Connecticut, is a prize-winning poet and playwright. Her first poetry collection, Rooted in Stars, now in its second printing, is part of The Beinecke Rare Book and...
Instructional Video2:54
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Clare Rossini 'Running in Riverside Park'

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 Video2:36
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ian Manuel - 'My Time Gonna Come'

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 Video1:47
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ed Ahern "Natter, Chatter, Cha-Ching"

Higher Ed
Edward Ahern sometimes detours into literary fiction, but he's best known as a poet and innovative genre writer. He's tucked away several awards and honorable mentions for over two hundred poems and stories and four books. The poems and...
Instructional Video1:48
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Dianne Bilyak "Blake's Theology"

Higher Ed
Dianne Bilyak is a Pushcart-prize nominated writer, graduate of the Institute of Sacred Music and Art, and Connecticut disability rights advocate. Her book of poems Against the Turning was published in 2011, and her work has also been...
Instructional Video3:20
Poetry Foundation

Cecily Parks reads "Hurricane Song"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Cecily Parks reads her poem, "Hurricane Song
Instructional Video10:17
Oxford Comma

Why do we make art? Reading, Summary, and Analysis of The Exhibits by Roger Dylan Turner

9th - 12th
Why do we create art? Does the art we create change over time? And how can a poem that doesn't look like a poem help us answer those questions?
Instructional Video3:38
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Mark Hillringhouse - 'Woolworths'

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:53
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Vivian Shipley - 'Cargo'

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 Video2:46
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely - 'Still Life With Grandmother'

Higher Ed
Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely, Smith College B.A. in hand and nothing at all to suggest she knew how to make a lesson plan, began professional life as an English teacher in Vermont’s Waterbury High School. When, after two happy years, Vermont...
Instructional Video3:00
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Daniel Donaghy - Teachers Make a Difference - Harry Humes

Higher Ed
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,...
Instructional Video2:06
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Charlie Rossiter - 'Snake Black Solo'

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 Video3:34
Poetry Foundation

Kaveh Akbar reads "Enough Food and a Mom"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Kaveh Akbar reads francine j. harris's poem, "Enough Food and a Mom
Instructional Video3:12
Poetry Foundation

Peter Twal reads "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Peter Twal reads his poem, "This Sunday in Ordinary Time
Instructional Video1:44
Poetry Foundation

Taylor Behnke reads "my dreams, my works must wait til after hell"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Taylor Behnke reads the Gwendolyn Brooks poem "my dreams, my works must wait til after hell
Instructional Video16:11
Oxford Comma

The Old Lie: Reading, Summary, and Analysis of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"

9th - 12th
From the trenches of the Great War, Wilfred Owen composed some of the most haunting poetry of the 20th century. The war would eventually take hiss life, but not before he penned a warning for his and future generations about the horrors...
Instructional Video2:22
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Richard Deming - 'Ode to Paxil'

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...