Poetry Foundation
Mike Rugnetta reads Alyssa Berg
Mike Rugnetta reads an untitled Alyssa Berg poem from Ink Brick.
Poetry Foundation
Sumita Chakraborty reads “As from a Quiver of Arrows”
Sumita Chakraborty reads Carl Phillip's poem “As from a Quiver of Arrows
Curated Video
Intro To Python Programming - Reading a File
In this video, you'll learn how to read a file in from permenant storage and process it in Python.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ravi Shankar "The Great Sun"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herman Beavers - 'Requiem' (for Gwendolyn Brooks)
Herman Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses on Southern Modernism, 20th...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lynn Marie Houston - 'My Father Sends Me a Card That Says You Are So Loved'
Lynn Marie Houston holds a Ph.D. in English from Arizona State University and an MFA from Southern Connecticut State University. A Fulbright scholar (Switzerland 1994-1998), she has also held writing residencies at the Vermont Studio...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Vivian Shipley - 'Sourdough'
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
Joe Weil - 'Painting the Christmas Trees'
Joe Weil is an assistant professor at Binghamton University. His reviews, essays, poems and short stories have appeared in Paterson Literary review, The Literati Quarterly, Rattle, Barnstorm, Blue Collar Review, Lips, The Boston Review,...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Summer's End - 2. Picnic
Discover how Dobson uses the imagery of a picnic to explore the ephemerality of youth.
An autumnal bush scene sets the stage for a picnic. Sit with the speaker as she stews over the past while her billy threatens to bubble over! Tongues...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ginny Lowe Connors - 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Classroom'
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...
Oxford Comma
Biographical Fallacy: Funeral Blues
Four Weddings and a Funeral made this poem THE funeral poem. But did Auden actually want it to be sad? And does that actually matter? We'll explore that question in our reading, summary, and analysis of W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues."
Brainwaves Video Anthology
The Poetic Tragedy of Shergar: A Tale of Loss and Legacy
This haunting and evocative poem weaves together the mysterious disappearance of the legendary racehorse Shergar with the author's personal memories of loss and transition. Through vivid imagery and poignant reflections, the poet...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bill Holmes "In the End"
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...
Advocate of Wordz
Epigram & Limerick - Poetry Defined
"Less Words, More Power". It is a motto we live by over here. The more compact a punch, the more power you can produce. Epigrams and Limericks take the cake on this! In this episode we share some examples and break down the structure of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Srinivas Mandavilli - 'Octopus Nocturne'
Srini Mandavilli is a practicing pathologist with expertise in gynecologic pathology. He has recently published a chapbook “Gods in the Foyer” and has poems published in Freshwater, SN Review, Caduceus, Drunken Boat, Theodate, The...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bob Greenberg - 'Introduction to Poetry' by Billy Collins
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. Billy Collins was United States Poet Laureate 2001 - 2003 Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ama Mazama - "Sale" by Léon-Gontran Damas
Ama Mazama (aka Marie-Josée Cérol) is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs of the Department of Africa American Studies at Temple University. She received her PhD with highest distinction from La Sorbonne Nouvelle,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Alicia Ostriker "August Morning, Upper Broadway"
Alicia Ostriker was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937. Ostriker received a BA from Brandeis University in 1959 and an MA and PhD in literature, in 1961 and 1964 respectively, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.She is the author...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Victoria Huggins Peurifoy - “I Came Up With"
Victoria Huggins Peurifoy is a retired federal employee. She is a poet, spoken-word artist, author, ghostwriter, photographer, facilitator, student, mother of four, and a grandmother of eight. A native of West Philadelphia, she currently...
Poetry Foundation
Andy Powell reads "My Heart Is A Public Park"
Andy Powell (he/him/his) reads his poem, “My Heart Is A Public Park
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Geoff Page "Ah!"
Geoff Page grew up on the Clarence River in NSW and is based in Canberra. He has published twenty-five collections of poetry as well as two novels, five verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bill Holmes "Tempest Rising"
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...
Oxford Comma
Shakespeare's Greatest Love Poem: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
In today's video we'll be looking at a reading, summary, and analysis of William Shakespeare's sonnet 116: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds." Through this close reading we'll look at what love is, is not, and how true love endures.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Bernstein - 'I's Song'
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...