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Phyllis Wheatley: The First Published Black American Poet
This video tells the story of Phyllis Wheatley, a young girl from Gambia who became the first Black American to publish a book of poetry. Learn about her journey from enslavement to literary fame, her notable works, and her impact on...
Biography
Robert Frost - American Poet & Four-time Pulitzer Prize Winner | Mini Bio | BIO
Watch a short video biography of poet Robert Frost, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the Inaugural Poet for President Kennedy in 1961. #Biography Subscribe for more Biography: http://aetv.us/2AsWMPH Delve deeper into Biography on our...
Curated Video
Robert Frost: American Poet
Students discover facts about the famous poet, Robert Frost, as Mr. Griot reads and discusses a brief biography.
Curated Video
Maya Angelou: the First Black Woman to be Featured on a United States Quarter Coin
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights, activist. She was the first Black woman to be featured on a United States quarter coin (25 cent coin) When she was eight, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and chose...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ravi Shankar - Nothing Has Made Me Feel More American Than Going To Jail
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...
Mr. Beat
1920s American Culture (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Once upon a time, a horrible war known as World War 1 devastated the planet. Immediately after the war, a lot of people in the United States were passionate about various causes, some good, some not so much. While women had finally won...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marilyn Nelson - Teachers Make a Difference - Daniel Hoffman
Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of more than 20 books and chapbooks for adults and children. Her critically acclaimed books for young adults include A Wreath for Emmett Till and the ground breaking Carver: A Life in Poems, a...
The Atlantic
Poet Donald Hall: ‘Old Age Is a Ceremony of Losses’
Before Donald Hall died this June, the 89-year-old American poet laureate let a filmmaker into his home in bucolic New Hampshire. In Paul Szynol’s Quiet Hours, premiering on The Atlantic today, Hall—whose prolific body of work is...
The Telegraph
The early rejection letter received by poet Sylvia Plath
This video details a rejection letter received by American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, after she submitted a collection of her poems to the editorial office of The New Yorker in November 1962. Get the latest headlines:...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Laurel S. Peterson "The American with the Camera"
Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks: That’s the Way the Music Sounds, from Finishing Line Press (2009) and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Antoinette Brim-Bell - 'The Poet is Freed'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Roberto Carlos Garcia - Mixtape for City Kids from Dysfunctional but Happy Families, Kids Like Me
Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Alicia Ostriker - Teachers Make a Difference - Allen Ginsberg
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...
Schooling Online
Emily Dickinson - Introducing Emily Dickinson
If you’ve ever been curious about the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson, then this lesson is for you! Enjoy a detailed overview of Dickinson’s extraordinary life, her unique poetic style, and contextual influences. We’ve brought it...
Schooling Online
Emily Dickinson - This is my letter to the World
Join us for an in-depth look at one of Dickinson’s most iconic poems. It’s a short but powerful lyric that carries an important message for us all. We’ll take you through the poem’s big ideas, context, form, and poetic techniques. With...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Roberto Carlos Garcia - Elegy in the Key of Life
Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Roberto Carlos Garcia - Teachers Make a Difference
Poet, storyteller, and essayist Roberto Carlos Garcia is a self-described “sancocho […] of provisions from the Harlem Renaissance, the Spanish Poets of 1929, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican School, and the Modernists.” Garcia is...
Curated Video
Mercy Otis Warren: Blowing the Whistle on British Rule
Mercy Otis Warren was a poet, playwright and ‘whistleblower’ who used her words to throw some serious shade on British Colonial rule.
Curated Video
Themes and Symbolism in Emily Dickinson's Poems
Emily Dickinson's late poetry often reflects themes of volcanic emotions and explosive psychological states, suggesting a deeply turbulent inner life. Some speculate that Dickinson's reclusiveness and intense emotional expressions in her...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Clare Rossini - Teachers Make a Difference - Jane Cooper & Don Justice
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...
Curated Video
Gwendolyn Brooks
The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the hardship and struggles of ordinary people.
Curated Video
Romantic Movement
This video discusses the influences and philosophies of the American Romantic movement, using examples from poetry of the time.
The Met
Bronzino: Painter, Poet, Man
Learn more about this exhibition: The Drawings of Bronzino on view at the Met January 20, 2010 - April 18, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/metbronzino A lecture by James Fenton, Poet, Journalist, Critic This exhibition is the first ever...
Biography
William Faulkner - Two Time Pullitzer Prize Winner & Poet-Novelist of Mississippi | Mini Bio | BIO
A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, William Faulkner was the poet-novelist of Mississippi. His novels "The Sound and the Fury," "As I Lay Dying," and "Light in August" all reflect the history and culture of the American South. #Biography...
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