Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ian Manuel - Poetry Behind Bars
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
Herman Beavers - 'Those Winter Sundays' by Robert Hayden
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
Shane Strange "Uses of Poetry 8"
Shane Strange’s writing has appeared in various print and online journals in Australia and internationally. He is the author of two chapbooks Notes to the Reader and Dark Corner. His first collection of poetry All Suspicions Have Been...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - Rhapsody On A Windy Night - Lines 23-48
Between the hours of 2:30 and 3:30am, our journey through the lonely city streets takes a darker turn. Unpleasant memories are triggered and the world seems like a broken, twisted place. Our analysis of Stanzas 3, 4 and 5 makes studying...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herman Beavers - 'If We Think of Light' (for Eve, Jibreel and Gideon)
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
Antoinette Brim-Bell - 'Eve/Woman/Wife
Antoinette Brim, author of These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love and Psalm of the Sunflower, is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a...
Financial Times
Potent art: Simon Russell Beale performs from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The stage actor performs the 'Ye Elves' speech in which the aged wizard Prospero vows to break his staff and relinquish his magic. He will be performing more poems at the upcoming FT Weekend Festival.
Hip Hughes History
Testing and Data: A Teacher's View
In this short video, HipHughes explains why data and tests may be necessary they should not dictate our methodology in all instances.
The Art Assignment
Having a Coke with Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara is best known for his poetry, but in this Art Cooking we explore his life as a poet as well as an art curator at MoMA.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ravi Shankar "Thomas Jefferson in Kathmandu"
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...
The Kiboomers
Jack and Jill: Version 2
Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Then, up Jack got, and off to trot, As fast as he could caper; To old Dame Deb, who patched his head With vinegar...
Oxford Comma
The Simplicity of Sadness: The Red Wheelbarrow
A deceptively deep poem, students have been frustrated by "The Red Wheelbarrow" for decades. This video shows that William's intentionally plays with the idea of significance. Find out more in this reading, summary, and analysis of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat Mottola - Teachers Make a Difference - Will Hochman
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 Fusco - Teachers Make a Difference - Vivian Shipley
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lewis R. Gordon - For 'Biola'
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums, other percussive instruments, and piano), who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York, where he attended...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Joseph Ross - Teachers Make a Difference - Teresita Fay
Joseph Ross is the author of four books of poetry: Raising King (forthcoming in 2020), Ache (2017), Gospel of Dust (2013), and Meeting Bone Man (2012). His poetry has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Edwina Trentham - Teachers Make a Difference - Tony Connor
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
Bob Greenberg - 'Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout' by Shel Silverstein
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. SARAH CYNTHIA SYLVIA STOUT by Shel Silverstein Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out. She'd wash the dishes...
Poetry Foundation
Chrysanthemum Tran reads "I Don't Even Like Sports"
Chrysanthemum Tran (she/they) reads her poem, “I Don't Even Like Sports
Oxford Comma
High School Favorite: Not Waving But Drowning
As my school's senior English teacher I feel a personal, self inflicted pressure to convince my students that poetry has relevance and value in their lives. I want them to see that by reading and writing poetry they can share a part of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bob Greenberg - 'Sick' by Shel Silverstein
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. Sick by Shel Silverstein "I cannot go to school today," Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Vivian Shipley - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Sue Walker
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
James Finnegan - Teachers Make a Difference - Howard Schwartz
During his senior year in college as a business major, a course in creative writing changed James Finnegan’s life. Until that time, he had thought of poetry as a relatively antique art form. But an excellent teacher exposed him to the...