Instructional Video2:27
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Rennie McQuilkin We All Fall Down

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:28
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Rennie McQuilkin - 'The Angling'

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:08
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Husnaa Hashim - Teachers Make a Difference - Abigail Henry

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:30
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Husnaa Hashim - 'To Be'

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:41
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ginny Lowe Connors - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Dembrowski

Higher Ed
Ginny Lowe Connors’ chapbook, Under the Porch (Hill-Stead Museum, 2010) won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. She’s published several poetry collections, including Barbarians in the Kitchen (Antrim House Books, 2005) and The Unparalleled...
Instructional Video2:57
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Edwina Trentham - 'The Cradle Maker' - An Elegy of Sorts

Higher Ed
Edwina Trentham is a Professor of English at Asnuntuck Community College, where she is also the Editor of Freshwater, a national poetry journal, which celebrated its Tenth Anniversary in May 2009. She has published poetry in a variety of...
Instructional Video4:20
Brainwaves Video Anthology

John L. Stanizzi "Wish at First Snow"

Higher Ed
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall Antrim House Books, and After the Bell, and Hallelujah Time!, Big Table Publishing...
Instructional Video4:14
Poetry Foundation

torrin a. greathouse reads "Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
torrin a. greathouse (she/they) reads her poem, “Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched
Instructional Video4:15
Poetry Foundation

Natasha Huey reads "Field Trip to the Museum of Human History" by Franny Choi

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Natasha Huey (she/her/hers) reads the poem, "Field Trip to the Museum of Human History" by Franny Choi.
Instructional Video3:30
Poetry Foundation

Adam Falkner reads "Kissing Your Shoulder Blade Is the Most Honest Thing I've Done This Week"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Adam Falkner (he/him/his) reads his poem, "Kissing Your Shoulder Blade Is the Most Honest Thing I've Done This Week
Instructional Video7:24
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Dianne Bilyak "A Bell of Water, Ringing"

Higher Ed
Dianne Bilyak is a Pushcart-prize nominated writer, graduate of the Institute of Sacred Music and Art, and Connecticut disability rights advocate. Her book of poems Against the Turning was published in 2011, and her work has also been...
Instructional Video2:36
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura Teachers Make a Difference -Tommy Nelle Hampton Mullane

Higher Ed
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a poet, visual artist, and cartoonist. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, DMQ Review, Tule Review, THINK Journal, Louisiana Literature, Naugatuck River Review, and elsewhere....
Instructional Video1:43
Brainwaves Video Anthology

RuNett Nia Ebo - I Dance and My Body Talks to God

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:39
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Amy Nawrocki - 'Japanese Lady on a Lacquered Stand'

Higher Ed
Amy Nawrocki is a poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Bridgeport. I graduated with a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and I earned my M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. She lives now in Hamden,...
Instructional Video1:34
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Dennis Barone - 'A Moral Fable'

Higher Ed
Dennis Barone is a Professor of English at the University of Saint Joseph (formerly Saint Joseph College) in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is currently editing two poetry anthologies: New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of...
Instructional Video4:22
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Van Hartmann "On Looking at Nhem En's Photographs"

Higher Ed
Van Hartmann teaches English at Manhattanville College. He received an undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University and a doctorate in English from UNC at Chapel Hill. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals. His first...
Instructional Video2:52
Brainwaves Video Anthology

John L. Stanizzi "Hallelujah Time!"

Higher Ed
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall Antrim House Books, and After the Bell, and Hallelujah Time!, Big Table Publishing...
Instructional Video4:32
Poetry Foundation

Jeremy Radin reads "I Should Not Say You" by Leonard Cohen

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Jeremy Radin (he/him/his) reads the poem “I Should Not Say You” by Leonard Cohen.
Instructional Video2:28
Poetry Foundation

Nomi Stone reads "The Soldier Takes the Anthropologist to the Shooting Range"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Nomi Stone reads her poem, "The Soldier Takes the Anthropologist to the Shooting Range
Instructional Video2:08
Poetry Foundation

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads "Mountain, Stone"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads her poem "Mountain, Stone
Instructional Video4:37
Poetry Foundation

Chrysanthemum Tran reads "una oración" (bruja's soliloquy) by Rachel McKibbens

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Chrysanthemum Tran (she/they) reads Rachel McKibbens's poem, "una oración" (bruja's soliloquy).
Instructional Video3:24
Poetry Foundation

Sarah Kay reads "Forest Fires"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Sarah Kay reads Forest Fires, a poem she wrote for her grandmother and dad.
Instructional Video3:46
Poetry Foundation

Raych Jackson reads "Church Girl Learns to Pray Again"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Raych Jackson reads her poem, "Church Girl Learns to Pray Again
Instructional Video3:00
Poetry Foundation

George Watsky reads "Great Speed"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
George Watsky reads his poem, "Great Speed