Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dennis Barone - 'A Moral Fable'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Amy Nawrocki - 'Japanese Lady on a Lacquered Stand'
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,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Van Hartmann "On Looking at Nhem En's Photographs"
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John L. Stanizzi "Hallelujah Time!"
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
Sarah Kay reads "Forest Fires"
Sarah Kay reads Forest Fires, a poem she wrote for her grandmother and dad.
Poetry Foundation
Raych Jackson reads "Church Girl Learns to Pray Again"
Raych Jackson reads her poem, "Church Girl Learns to Pray Again
Poetry Foundation
Nomi Stone reads "The Soldier Takes the Anthropologist to the Shooting Range"
Nomi Stone reads her poem, "The Soldier Takes the Anthropologist to the Shooting Range
Poetry Foundation
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads "Mountain, Stone"
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads her poem "Mountain, Stone
Poetry Foundation
Jeremy Radin reads "I Should Not Say You" by Leonard Cohen
Jeremy Radin (he/him/his) reads the poem “I Should Not Say You” by Leonard Cohen.
Poetry Foundation
Chrysanthemum Tran reads "una oración" (bruja's soliloquy) by Rachel McKibbens
Chrysanthemum Tran (she/they) reads Rachel McKibbens's poem, "una oración" (bruja's soliloquy).
Oxford Comma
Romantic or Depressing: Dover Beach
Reading, summary, and analysis of Matthew Arnold's 1867 poem, "Dover Beach."
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Shulamith Chernoff - Another Year, Another Birthday
Shulamith Chernoff was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at the Teacher’s Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary, as well as Columbia University. Deeply influenced by her mother , a linguiist and publisher, and her father, a...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marilyn Nelson - 'Red-Hot Mama'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marilyn Nelson - 'Dinah's Lament'
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Maria Sassi - 'Look Homeward Angel Now to Hollyhocks'
Maria Sassi, who was for several years Poet Laureate of West Hartford, Connecticut, is a prize-winning poet and playwright. Her first poetry collection, Rooted in Stars, now in its second printing, is part of The Beinecke Rare Book and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Joe Weil - 'Paunch'
Joe Weil is an assistant professor at Binghamton University. His reviews, essays, poems and short stories have appeared in Paterson Literary review, The Literati Quarterly, Rattle, Barnstorm, Blue Collar Review, Lips, The Boston Review,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Daniel Donaghy - 'George'
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,...
Poetry Foundation
Blythe Baird reads "The Purchase" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Blythe Baird (she/her/hers) reads Aimee Nezhukumatathil's poem, “The Purchase
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Edwina Trentham - 'In Flight'
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
David Cappella - Teachers Make a Difference - The Physical Therapist
A poet and teacher, David Cappella is a professor emeritus in the English department at Central Connecticut State University. He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of The Moves and of A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day. In...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Bernstein - 'Devils Dictionary'
Charles Bernstein taught poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performance. He retired from Penn on June 30, 2019. Bernstein has published five collections of essays — Pitch of Poetry...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bob Greenberg - 'Hope is the thing with feathers' by Emily Dickinson
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. Hope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson - 1830-1886 “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And...