Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rennie McQuilkin We All Fall Down
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
Rennie McQuilkin - 'The Angling'
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
Husnaa Hashim - Teachers Make a Difference - Abigail Henry
Husnaa Hashim is the 2017-2018 Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and author of the poetry collection Honey Sequence. She is a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania from West Philadelphia and Gaithersburg, Maryland. Husnaa has...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Husnaa Hashim - 'To Be'
Husnaa Hashim is the 2017-2018 Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and author of the poetry collection Honey Sequence. She is a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania from West Philadelphia and Gaithersburg, Maryland. Husnaa has...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ginny Lowe Connors - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Dembrowski
Ginny Lowe Connors’ chapbook, Under the Porch (Hill-Stead Museum, 2010) won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. She’s published several poetry collections, including Barbarians in the Kitchen (Antrim House Books, 2005) and The Unparalleled...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Edwina Trentham - 'The Cradle Maker' - An Elegy of Sorts
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John L. Stanizzi "Wish at First Snow"
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall Antrim House Books, and After the Bell, and Hallelujah Time!, Big Table Publishing...
Poetry Foundation
torrin a. greathouse reads "Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched"
torrin a. greathouse (she/they) reads her poem, “Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched
Poetry Foundation
Natasha Huey reads "Field Trip to the Museum of Human History" by Franny Choi
Natasha Huey (she/her/hers) reads the poem, "Field Trip to the Museum of Human History" by Franny Choi.
Poetry Foundation
Adam Falkner reads "Kissing Your Shoulder Blade Is the Most Honest Thing I've Done This Week"
Adam Falkner (he/him/his) reads his poem, "Kissing Your Shoulder Blade Is the Most Honest Thing I've Done This Week
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dianne Bilyak "A Bell of Water, Ringing"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura Teachers Make a Difference -Tommy Nelle Hampton Mullane
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a poet, visual artist, and cartoonist. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, DMQ Review, Tule Review, THINK Journal, Louisiana Literature, Naugatuck River Review, and elsewhere....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
RuNett Nia Ebo - I Dance and My Body Talks to God
RuNett Nia Ebo, author of 8 chapbooks and 3 paperbacks of poetry and counting. Her signature poem is "Lord, Why Did You Make Me Black?" It is a contribution to Chicken Soup For the African American Soul. Ms. Ebo visits schools (all...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Amy Nawrocki - 'Japanese Lady on a Lacquered Stand'
Amy Nawrocki is a poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Bridgeport. I graduated with a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and I earned my M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. She lives now in Hamden,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dennis Barone - 'A Moral Fable'
Dennis Barone is a Professor of English at the University of Saint Joseph (formerly Saint Joseph College) in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is currently editing two poetry anthologies: New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Van Hartmann "On Looking at Nhem En's Photographs"
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
John L. Stanizzi "Hallelujah Time!"
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall Antrim House Books, and After the Bell, and Hallelujah Time!, Big Table Publishing...
Poetry Foundation
Jeremy Radin reads "I Should Not Say You" by Leonard Cohen
Jeremy Radin (he/him/his) reads the poem “I Should Not Say You” by Leonard Cohen.
Poetry Foundation
Nomi Stone reads "The Soldier Takes the Anthropologist to the Shooting Range"
Nomi Stone reads her poem, "The Soldier Takes the Anthropologist to the Shooting Range
Poetry Foundation
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads "Mountain, Stone"
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads her poem "Mountain, Stone
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Chrysanthemum Tran reads "una oración" (bruja's soliloquy) by Rachel McKibbens
Chrysanthemum Tran (she/they) reads Rachel McKibbens's poem, "una oración" (bruja's soliloquy).
Poetry Foundation
Sarah Kay reads "Forest Fires"
Sarah Kay reads Forest Fires, a poem she wrote for her grandmother and dad.
Poetry Foundation
Raych Jackson reads "Church Girl Learns to Pray Again"
Raych Jackson reads her poem, "Church Girl Learns to Pray Again