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End of the World: The Second Coming
Many are surprised to learnt that both a collection of essays about 1960s culture and the most famous Nigerian novel of all time both take their titles from an old Irish poem. Keep watching for a reading, summary, and analysis of William...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - 'How Long The Long Winter'
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita “Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. Nationally and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ciaran Berry - Teachers Make a Difference - Tom Walsh & Philip Levine
Ciaran Berry is an Irish poet who has spent the last decade and a half living, writing, and teaching in the United States. His poetry collections are The Sphere of Birds (2008, Gallery Press/Southern Illinois University Press) and The...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - Teachers Make a Difference - John Allen, Louis Rubin Jr and George Garrett
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Author, Professor Emerita “Margaret Gibson has created a voice and an art that connect the sensuous experience of the physical world with the inner life,” Pattiann Rogers has written. Nationally and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Shani Robinson - 'Lord, Why Did You Make Me Black' by RuNett Nia Ebo
SHANI ROBINSON was born and raised in Atlanta and always knew that education would play a large part of her life. With all of the influential women in her life educators, including her mother who served as an educator for 35 years, Shani...
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Mark Hillringhouse - Teachers Make a Difference - Juana Ortiz
Mark Hillringhouse is a published poet, essayist, and photographer whose works have been widely exhibited in area galleries. His photo-essay on the Passaic River was published in the American Poetry Review and his photography and writing...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ciaran Berry - 'Liner Notes'
Ciaran Berry is an Irish poet who has spent the last decade and a half living, writing, and teaching in the United States. His poetry collections are The Sphere of Birds (2008, Gallery Press/Southern Illinois University Press) and The...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rozanna Lilley "The Forgotten War"
Rozanna Lilley grew up in South Perth, the youngest of five children. Her parents – Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley – were both left wing radicals and writers. They moved to Sydney in Lilley’s last year of primary school. After school,...
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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura Teachers Make a Difference - Elena Caycedo
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born poet, translator, and educator. Her honors include a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at The Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global...
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Love Poem or Insulting: My Misstress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
Scholars debate what exactly Shakespeare meant when he wrote these famous words in his mysterious sonnets. For some, including my wife, it's the greatest love poem of all time. For others, it's one big burn. We'll try to answer that...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat Mottola - Most Times
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
Bob Greenberg - 'Did I Miss Anything' by Tom Wayman
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. Did I Miss Anything? Tom Wayman Question frequently asked by students after missing a class Nothing. When we realized you weren't...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Lines 15-36
In this lesson, we’ll analyse lines 15-36 of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. Enjoy this relatable and thought-provoking journey into the mind of J. Alfred Prufrock as he struggles with anxiety and indecision. Learn...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Julie Batten "Born to Dance"
Julie Batten is the founder of the Glass House Shelter Project, a grassroots organization that brings college reading & writing courses into homeless shelters. She teaches writing courses at Brandeis University, Salem State University...
Poetry Foundation
Ocean Vuong reads "Tours" by C.D. Wright
Ocean Vuong (he/him/his) reads the poem, “Tours” by C.D. Wright.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rennie McQuilkin - Teachers Make a Difference
Rennie McQuilkin, has an extensive background participating in poetry readings and workshops in Connecticut, and beyond, has had a distinguished literary career with several published full-length collections of poetry. His work has...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mark Hillringhouse - 'Diner'
Mark Hillringhouse is a published poet, essayist, and photographer whose works have been widely exhibited in area galleries. His photo-essay on the Passaic River was published in the American Poetry Review and his photography and writing...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Frederick-Douglass Knowles ll - Teachers Make a Difference - Ken Florey
Frederick-Douglass Knowles II is a poet, educator and activist involved in community education. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Hartford. His collection of poetry, BlackRoseCity was featured at the 2018 Association of...
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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...
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Charles Rossiter - Selections from Green Mountain Meditations
Charles Rossiter, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient and five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, has led workshops and taught at literary festivals, community organizations, libraries, prisons and schools from 10th grade to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rozanna Lilley "The Lady in the Bottle"
Rozanna Lilley grew up in South Perth, the youngest of five children. Her parents – Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley – were both left wing radicals and writers. They moved to Sydney in Lilley’s last year of primary school. After school,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Martín Espada "Aubade with Concussion"
Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball...
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Christine Beck - 'Let's Get In This Car Together'
Christine Beck holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree from Southern Connecticut State University and is the author of Blinding Light (Grayson Books 2013), I’m Dating Myself, (Dancing Girl Press 2015) and Stirred, Not...
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan - 'What Did I Want'
Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs), the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets &...