Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ciaran Berry - 'The Death of Elvis'
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...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Lines 1-14
Are you ready to perfect your understanding of one of the most important poems of the 20th century? Join us for a rigorous and entertaining analysis of the epigraph and lines 1-14 of T.S. Eliot’s famous poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mark Tredinnick "Lotus Pond"
In 2020, Tredinnick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.Tredinnick’s other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron Pretty...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura "Cattleya Trianae in Seventh Grade Garden"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Donna Marie Merritt "Come"
Donna Marie Merritt is the author of seven books of poetry . . . Bible Poems for Reflection and Response (2020), No Winter Maintenance: Pass at Your Own Risk (2017), We Walk Together (2015), Her House and Other Poems, (2013), What’s...
Oxford Comma
Counting our Own Hours: When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
Because he died so young, Keats' poetry is often read biographically. Readers usually come to the consensus that his death at 25 years of age robbed the world of one of its greatest writers. And Keats certainly thought his early death...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Vicki Cobb - Teachers Make a Difference - Louis Sarlin
Vicki Cobb is the well-known author of more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children. Ever since 1972, when HarperCollins first published Science Experiments You Can Eat, Cobb's lighthearted approach to hands-on...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Srinivas Mandavilli - Teachers Make a Difference
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Antoinette Brim-Bell - Teachers Make a Difference - Prof. David Clewell
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...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - Prelude 1
Enjoy this detailed analysis of Prelude 1 of T.S. Eliot’s famous quadriptych poem ‘Preludes’. Grab your notes as we guide you through this opening Prelude, filled with the wintry sights and smells of a nameless city in the early 1900s....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Christine Beck - 'Swans and Hearts'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bob Greenberg - 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat McLean-Smith “For Sonia”
Pat McLean-Smith, is a published poet and teaching artist. She is the author of two books of poetry and the recipient of several awards. Including 1st place for the Sonia Sanchez/Audre Lorde Poetry Competition, 2nd place for Judith Stark...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Donna Marie Merritt "I Don't Wish Them Ill"
Donna Marie Merritt is the author of seven books of poetry . . . Bible Poems for Reflection and Response (2020), No Winter Maintenance: Pass at Your Own Risk (2017), We Walk Together (2015), Her House and Other Poems, (2013), What’s...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bessy Reyna "I Was Born On An Island"
Bessy Reyna is the author of two bilingual books of poetry, The Battlefield of Your Body (Hill-Stead Museum, 2005) and Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover/ Memorias de la amante infiel (tunAstral, A.C., 2010, Toluca Mexico). A chapbook of...
Curated Video
Little Boy Blue | Children Songs | Children Rhymes | The Kiboomers
Little Boy Blue Lyrics Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn. The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Where is the boy that looks after the sheep? "He's under the haycock, fast asleep." Will you wake him? "No, not I; For if I...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pat Mottola - History Lesson
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
Tony Connor - 'A Brief Account at Fifty'
Born in Manchester, British poet and playwright John Anthony (Tony) Connor left school at 14 and spent 26 years as a textile designer, also serving in the Royal Army. He earned an MA at the University of Manchester. With poet Robin...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Linda Hillringhouse - 'Black Rattle'
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
Daniel Donaghy - 'Somerset'
Daniel Donaghy is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Somerset, which was named co-winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize. His previous poetry collections are Start with the Trouble (University of Arkansas Press,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charlie Rossiter 'YIN' (when I am a woman)
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
Bob Greenberg - 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tony Fusco - "Java Scripture”
Tony Fusco, is a West Haven resident and was named Poet Laureate for the City of West Haven in April of 2019. and is also Co- President and Past-President of the CT Poetry Society. He has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from...
Poetry Foundation
Jane Wong reads “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly”
Jane Wong reads her poem “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly”.