Instructional Video1:37
Poetry Foundation

Wayétu Moore reads "A Song"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Wayétu Moore reads "A Song" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Instructional Video2:27
Poetry Foundation

Sam Sax reads "Everyone's an Expert at Something"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Sam Sax (he/they) reads his poem, “Everyone's an Expert at Something
Instructional Video1:51
Poetry Foundation

Ruth Awad reads "Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home" by Meg Day

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Ruth Awad (she/her/hers) reads the poem, "Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home" by Meg Day.
Instructional Video3:11
Poetry Foundation

Phil Kaye reads "Two Bills"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Phil Kaye (he/him/his) reads his poem, "Two Bills
Instructional Video2:02
Poetry Foundation

Traci Brimhall reads “Fledgling”

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Traci Brimhall reads her poem, “Fledgling”.
Instructional Video2:04
Poetry Foundation

Nate Marshall reads "aubade for the whole hood"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Nate Marshall (he/him/his) reads his poem, "aubade for the whole hood
Instructional Video1:57
Poetry Foundation

Kenji C. Liu reads “Drowsiness through my kiss”

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Kenji C. Liu reads his poem “Drowsiness through my kiss”.
Instructional Video1:56
Poetry Foundation

Dana Levin reads "How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Dana Levin (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now
Instructional Video2:45
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Frederick-Douglass Knowles ll - 'Emerie Enters Her Grandmother's Garden'

Higher Ed
Frederick-Douglass Knowles II is a poet, educator and activist involved in community education. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Hartford. His collection of poetry, BlackRoseCity was featured at the 2018 Association of...
Instructional Video1:59
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Shulamith Chernoff - A Confession

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video1:32
Poetry Foundation

Mike Rugnetta reads from Rilke's Book of Hours

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Mike Rugnetta reads from Rilke's Book of Hours.
Instructional Video2:04
Poetry Foundation

Ben Purkert reads “Silhouettes”

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Ben Purkert reads Kien Lam's poem, “Silhouettes”.
Instructional Video3:34
Poetry Foundation

Theresa Lola reads "Sing with Me and Do Not Die of Thirst"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Theresa Lola (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "Sing with Me and Do Not Die of Thirst
Instructional Video2:25
Poetry Foundation

Sam Rush reads "After the moonshine I awake beside a fern"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Sam Rush (they/them) reads their poem, "After the moonshine I awake beside a fern
Instructional Video0:58
Poetry Foundation

Hari Kondabolu reads "Ticker"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Hari Kondabolu reads a poem written by his brother, Ashok Kondabolu aka Dapwell, titled "Ticker
Instructional Video2:48
Poetry Foundation

Amber Tamblyn reads "An Attempt at Jealousy" by Marina Tsvetaeva

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Amber Tamblyn (she/her/hers) reads Marina Tsvetaeva's poem, “An Attempt at Jealousy
Instructional Video1:53
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Bob Greenberg - 'On the Other Side of the Door' by Jeff Moss

Higher Ed
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. In 1969, Jeff Moss became the first head writer, composer and lyricist for Sesame Street. He would eventually win 14 Emmys. In...
Instructional Video2:08
Poetry Foundation

José Olivarez reads "I Loved the World So I Married It"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
José Olivarez reads his poem I Loved the World So I Married It.
Instructional Video1:43
Poetry Foundation

Jos Charles reads “LVII. [tonite I wuld luv to rite]”

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Jos Charles reads her poem “LVII. [tonite I wuld luv to rite]”.
Instructional Video4:44
Curated Video

Aethelflaed part 6: the True Story of Judith and Holofernes?

12th - Higher Ed
Aethelflaed quickly began shoring up the defenses of her kingdom, restoring strategically located fortresses. Understand how Aethelflaed worked with her brother Edward to defend their kingdoms with an offensive strategy. Did...
Instructional Video1:52
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Steven S. Rogers - Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) by Gene Taylor

Higher Ed
Steven Rogers retired from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 2019 where he was the “MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer” in General Management. He taught Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course that he created, titled “Black Business...
Instructional Video1:25
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Steven S. Rogers - A Poem by Muhammad Ali

Higher Ed
Steven Rogers retired from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 2019 where he was the “MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer” in General Management. He taught Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course that he created, titled “Black Business...
Instructional Video5:41
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Ashley Gong - National Student Poet

Higher Ed
Ashley Gong, age 15, of Sandy Hook, CT is a junior at Newtown High School. She grew up surrounded by language, as her parents, first generation immigrants, would often read Chinese poems to her when she was a toddler. Despite this early...
Instructional Video5:38
Oxford Comma

Pure Pessimism? A Reading, Summary, and Analysis of Crane's "A Man Said to the Universe"

9th - 12th
Though he lived a short life, Stephen Crane had an undeniable and lasting influence on Realism and Naturalism. "A Man Said to the Universe" epitomizes a theme that shows up in many of works: pessimism.