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Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Cock Crow
Discover Dobson’s deeply personal and emotive reflection on the complex experience of motherhood. Being a mum is tough. Sometimes, Dobson just wants to escape it all. One night, she decides to go on a long walk. She walks along the dark...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Moth - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Moth - Read by Michael Rosen
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Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Over the Hill
Discover how Dobson uses the image of a workman on a hill to explore the experience of enduring life’s challenges.
It’s the end of a long day for a workman, trudging home at sunset. He pauses at the top of a hill to light his pipe,...
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When You Break a Poet's Heart: A Reading, Summary, and Analysis of Yeats' "When You Are Old"
Written as more of an indulgent thought experiment, than a love poem, "When You Are Old" still contains that trademark Yeatsian beauty.
Amor Sciendi
Musée des Beaux Arts and Auden's View of Suffering
A close reading of WH Auden's peom Musée des Beaux Arts
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Science | POEM
Science | POEM Poem performed by Michael Rosen From Big Book of Bad Things Published by Puffin
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Omen of Death. Reading, Summary, and Analysis of The Owl by Edward Thomas
In English literature, an owl usually indicates that death and tragedy are close at hand. As the world descended into The Great War, a freshly enlisted Edward Thomas drew upon this literary tradition to create "The Owl." In this video...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Linda Hillringhouse - Painting, Poetry and Imagination
Linda Hillringhouse is a self-taught painter who has shown her work at many local museums and galleries throughout the Tri-State area including the Newark and Paterson Museums, the Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts at William Paterson...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Antoinette Brim-Bell - 'Thank You Note to Picasso'
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...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Trousers Down | POEM
Trousers Down | POEM Mart and Me walked into England with our trousers down.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herman Beavers - Teachers Make a Difference - Michael S. Harper
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
Maria Sassi - 'Atlas Bone'
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...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
DAY 13 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Thirteenth Day When we hear how Till Owlyglass painted the ancestors of the Landgrave of Hessen, and how liars could not see what he painted. DAY 13 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
José Luis Vilson - This is Not a Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education
José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master's degree in...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
DAY 09 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Ninth Day DAY 09 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen When we hear how Till Owlyglass filled his pockets with money, making bets at the court of Count Limburg.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Child Who Was Wild | POEM
The Child Who Was Wild | POEM Poem written and performed by Michael Rosen.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Salty Wave | POEM
Salty Wave | POEM Poem written and performed by Michael Rosen.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Football Result/My Old Man's A Dustman - Sonsense Nongs - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Football Results/My Old Man's A Dustman Song performed by Michael Rosen. Michael Rosen shows once again why he's known for being able to tune into exactly the kind of humour that makes children fall about with laughter. Sonsense Nongs...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Diane Ravitch - Teachers Make a Difference - Ruby Ratliff and Lawrence Cremin
Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She is the Founder and President of the Network for Public Education (NPE). Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Plastic | POEM |Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Plastic | POEM |Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen Poem written and performed by Michael Rosen.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Eddie and the Car | POEM
Eddie and the Car | POEM| From 'You Wait Till I'm Older Than You' (Puffin).
Brainwaves Video Anthology
RuNett Nia Ebo "Lord, Why Did You Make Me Black?"
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...
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Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - Preludes 2 and 3
We continue our journey through T.S. Eliot’s vivid streetscape in Preludes 2 and 3 of his quadriptych poem ‘Preludes’. Experience the morning bustle of bleary-eyed city-dwellers as light struggles to break through the darkness. We’ll...
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...