Brainwaves Video Anthology
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura "Forage"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bella Mahaya Carter "Messa Road"
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...
Poetry Foundation
Lupita Limón Corrales reads "A Car Crash is Not a Poem"
Lupita Limón Corrales (she/they) reads thier poem, “A Car Crash is Not a Poem
Poetry Foundation
Rachel Wiley reads "The Mother Riddle"
Rachel Wiley (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “The Mother Riddle
Poetry Foundation
Roya Marsh reads "Blk Anger"
Roya Marsh (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “Blk Anger" to be published by Feminist Press.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Clare Rossini - 'The Great Chain of Being'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - 'Film Threat'
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
Maria Sassi 'Order of Water and Sun'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Clare Rossini 'Running in Riverside Park'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ian Manuel - 'My Time Gonna Come'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ed Ahern "Natter, Chatter, Cha-Ching"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dianne Bilyak "Blake's Theology"
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...
Oxford Comma
Why do we make art? Reading, Summary, and Analysis of The Exhibits by Roger Dylan Turner
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?
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mark Hillringhouse - 'Woolworths'
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
Vivian Shipley - 'Cargo'
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 &...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely - 'Still Life With Grandmother'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Daniel Donaghy - Teachers Make a Difference - Harry Humes
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 - 'Snake Black Solo'
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...
Poetry Foundation
Kaveh Akbar reads "Enough Food and a Mom"
Kaveh Akbar reads francine j. harris's poem, "Enough Food and a Mom
Poetry Foundation
Peter Twal reads "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
Peter Twal reads his poem, "This Sunday in Ordinary Time
Poetry Foundation
Taylor Behnke reads "my dreams, my works must wait til after hell"
Taylor Behnke reads the Gwendolyn Brooks poem "my dreams, my works must wait til after hell
Oxford Comma
The Old Lie: Reading, Summary, and Analysis of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - 'Ode to Paxil'
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...