Brainwaves Video Anthology
Randall Horton - Teachers Make a Difference - Sterling Plumpp
Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and, most recently, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction. He is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lynn Marie Houston - Teachers Make a Difference - Vivian Shipley
Lynn Marie Houston holds a Ph.D. in English from Arizona State University and an MFA from Southern Connecticut State University. A Fulbright scholar (Switzerland 1994-1998), she has also held writing residencies at the Vermont Studio...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Linda Hillringhouse - The Bristol Plaza Hotel, Wildwood
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
Rozanna Lilley "Wedgwood"
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,...
Schooling Online
English Essentials – Perfecting Poetry – How Soundscape is used to Convey Meaning in Poetry (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
Ever wondered why some poems flow smoothly, while others sound harsh and dissonant? It’s time to examine the soundscape of poetry. In this second lesson, we’ll delve into how poets create euphony and cacophony through a range of poetic...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - 'Heaven'
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
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...
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James Finnegan - 'The Dead Don't Cast Shadows'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Clare Rossini - 'The Nitro'
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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Pegi Deitz Shea "Wasted Lives"
Pegi Deitz Shea is an award-winning author and poet for all ages. She is a writing instructor at The Mark Twain House & Museum, School Literary Presenter at Children's Books and the First Poet Laureate at Town of Vernon, CT. She studied...
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Laurel S. Peterson - Teachers Make a Difference - Dan Masterson
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...
Poetry Foundation
John Green reads "Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem"
John Green reads Matthew Olzmann's poem, "Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem
Oxford Comma
Depressing or Romantic: Because I Could Not Stop for Death
A reading, summary, and analysis of Emily Dickinson's, "Because I could not stop for Death." This video explores how Dickinson takes a creepy concept, dying, and turns it into a date set to an upbeat tune.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Margaret Gibson - 'Looking Back, Looking Now'
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
Mark Hillringhouse - 'Moisture'
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
Husnaa Hashim - 'Honey Sequence'
Husnaa Hashim is the 2017-2018 Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and author of the poetry collection Honey Sequence. She is a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania from West Philadelphia and Gaithersburg, Maryland. Husnaa has...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Benjamin S. Grossberg - Teachers Make a Difference - Edward Hirsch
Benjamin S. Grossberg is the author of Space Traveler (University of Tampa, 2014); Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009), winner of the Tampa Review Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; and Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - Prelude 4
Join us for the conclusion of our urban wanderings as we analyse Prelude 4 of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes’. As the sun sets, there is an unexpected vision on the horizon. Is there hope for this corrupted metropolis? Language forms/features:...
Poetry Foundation
Nomi Stone reads "Gay Marriage Poem"
Nomi Stone reads Jenny Johnson's poem, "Gay Marriage Poem"
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Maria Mazziotti Gillan - Teachers Make a Difference - Mr. Weiss and Ms. Durbin
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 &...
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Srinivas Mandavilli - Holy Angels Convent School, Bharuch
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...
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Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely - Teachers Make a Difference - My Students
Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely, Smith College B.A. in hand and nothing at all to suggest she knew how to make a lesson plan, began professional life as an English teacher in Vermont’s Waterbury High School. When, after two happy years, Vermont...
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Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely - 'Sunday in Park with George'
Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely, Smith College B.A. in hand and nothing at all to suggest she knew how to make a lesson plan, began professional life as an English teacher in Vermont’s Waterbury High School. When, after two happy years, Vermont...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Linda Hillringhouse - Teachers Make a Difference - Miss Kimble
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...