Instructional Video4:58
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bill Holmes "In the End"

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video0:54
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Nursery | POEM

Pre-K - 5th
Nursery | POEM From Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Custard Published by Bloomsbury
Instructional Video4:06
Advocate of Wordz

Epigram & Limerick - Poetry Defined

9th - 12th
"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...
Instructional Video6:21
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

A Plague of Wasps | Part 3 | STORY | NASTY

Pre-K - 5th
A Plague of Wasps | Part 3 | STORY | NASTY Michael Rosen keeps bumping into a chatty old lady who tells him wildly unlikely stories - like there being man eating fleas on the London tube.
Instructional Video2:02
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Srinivas Mandavilli - 'Octopus Nocturne'

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:16
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bob Greenberg - 'Introduction to Poetry' by Billy Collins

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video0:51
Curated Video

I WONDER - How Many Plays Did Shakespeare Write?

Pre-K - 5th
This video is answering the question of how many plays did Shakespeare write.
Instructional Video1:00
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

When I Was A Wee Wee Tot | SONG | Sonsense Nongs | Kid's Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Pre-K - 5th
When I Was A Wee Wee Tot | SONG | Sonsense Nongs | Kid's Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen 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...
Instructional Video2:22
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ama Mazama - "Sale" by Léon-Gontran Damas

Higher Ed
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,...
Instructional Video4:55
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Victoria Huggins Peurifoy - “I Came Up With"

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:19
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Babysitter - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Pre-K - 5th
Babysitter - Read by Michael Rosen from The Hypnotiser
Instructional Video0:36
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Phone Gran | POEM

Pre-K - 5th
Phone Gran | POEM Poem written and Performed by Michael Rosen.
Instructional Video11:29
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Chapter 4 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts

Pre-K - 5th
Chapter 4 | STORY | You're Thinking About Doughnuts When Frank's mom has to work late one Friday cleaning the local museum, he finds himself spending a lonely night roaming the dark halls - until a chatty skeleton appears and takes him...
Instructional Video11:22
Poetry Foundation

Andy Powell reads "My Heart Is A Public Park"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Andy Powell (he/him/his) reads his poem, “My Heart Is A Public Park
Instructional Video2:43
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bill Holmes "Tempest Rising"

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video0:49
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

From a Railway Carriage | Robert Louis Stevenson

Pre-K - 5th
From a Railway Carriage Poem performed by Michael Rosen.
Instructional Video1:15
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Richard Blanco - Teachers Make a Difference - Ms. Husted

Higher Ed
Richard Blanco’s mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born. Forty-five days later, the family immigrated once more to New York City, and eventually settled in Miami....
Instructional Video10:39
Oxford Comma

Shakespeare's Greatest Love Poem: Let me not to the marriage of true minds

9th - 12th
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.
Instructional Video10:58
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Signe Myers Hovem - The Space in Between: An Empath's Field Guide

Higher Ed
Are you highly sensitive? Empathetic? Empathic? An empath? Accepting and embodying your empathic nature is an intentional path towards balance and belonging to yourself. The path to authenticity is knowing who you are. The Space in...
Instructional Video1:40
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Charles Bernstein - 'I's Song'

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:37
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Fast Food - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Pre-K - 5th
Fast Food - Read by Michael Rosen from The Hypnotiser
Instructional Video11:11
Oxford Comma

Reading, Summary, and Analysis of Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"

9th - 12th
In this reading, summary, and analysis we'll look at Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night."
Instructional Video0:58
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bob Greenberg - 'Although the Wind' by Izumi Shikibu

Higher Ed
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. Although the wind blows terribly here, the moonlight also leaks between the roof planks of this ruined house. Izumi Shikibu -...
Instructional Video2:28
Poetry Foundation

Jonny Sun reads "I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Jonny Sun reads a poem by Eve L. Ewing, imagining what Emmett Till would have been like if he had lived to become an old man living an ordinary life.