Oxford Comma
Why do we make art? Reading, Summary, and Analysis of The Exhibits by Roger Dylan Turner
Why do we create art? Does the art we create change over time? And how can a poem that doesn't look like a poem help us answer those questions?
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Vivian Shipley - 'Cargo'
Vivian Shipley is the author of several books of poetry, including All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 2010), Greatest Hits: 1974–2010 (Pudding House Press, 2010), and Hardboot: Poems, New &...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely - 'Still Life With Grandmother'
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
Mark Hillringhouse - 'Woolworths'
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
Daniel Donaghy - Teachers Make a Difference - Harry Humes
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 - 'Snake Black Solo'
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...
Poetry Foundation
Taylor Behnke reads "my dreams, my works must wait til after hell"
Taylor Behnke reads the Gwendolyn Brooks poem "my dreams, my works must wait til after hell
Poetry Foundation
Peter Twal reads "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
Peter Twal reads his poem, "This Sunday in Ordinary Time
Poetry Foundation
Kaveh Akbar reads "Enough Food and a Mom"
Kaveh Akbar reads francine j. harris's poem, "Enough Food and a Mom
Oxford Comma
The Old Lie: Reading, Summary, and Analysis of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
From the trenches of the Great War, Wilfred Owen composed some of the most haunting poetry of the 20th century. The war would eventually take hiss life, but not before he penned a warning for his and future generations about the horrors...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Deming - 'Ode to Paxil'
Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rennie McQuilkin We All Fall Down
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
Rennie McQuilkin - 'The Angling'
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
Husnaa Hashim - Teachers Make a Difference - Abigail Henry
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
Husnaa Hashim - 'To Be'
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
Ginny Lowe Connors - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Dembrowski
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Edwina Trentham - 'The Cradle Maker' - An Elegy of Sorts
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John L. Stanizzi "Wish at First Snow"
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...
Poetry Foundation
torrin a. greathouse reads "Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched"
torrin a. greathouse (she/they) reads her poem, “Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched
Poetry Foundation
Natasha Huey reads "Field Trip to the Museum of Human History" by Franny Choi
Natasha Huey (she/her/hers) reads the poem, "Field Trip to the Museum of Human History" by Franny Choi.
Poetry Foundation
Adam Falkner reads "Kissing Your Shoulder Blade Is the Most Honest Thing I've Done This Week"
Adam Falkner (he/him/his) reads his poem, "Kissing Your Shoulder Blade Is the Most Honest Thing I've Done This Week
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dianne Bilyak "A Bell of Water, Ringing"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura Teachers Make a Difference -Tommy Nelle Hampton Mullane
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....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
RuNett Nia Ebo - I Dance and My Body Talks to God
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...