The Triantiwontigongolope written by C. J. Dennis This poem is from a book published in 1921 C.J. Dennis' Book for Kids. C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet who helped popularise Australian slang in literature, earning him the title...

Artist and poet Cleo Wade recites a moving poem about being an advocate for love and acceptance in a time when both seem in short supply. Woven between stories of people at the beginning and end of their lives, she shares some truths...

When Ian Manuel was 13 years old, he was directed by some older juvenile boys to participate in an armed robbery. During the botched robbery attempt, a Tampa, FL woman (Debbie Baigrie) suffered a nonfatal gunshot wound. When Ian later...

Roya Marsh (she/her/hers) reads her poem, “Blk Anger" to be published by Feminist Press.

When Ian Manuel was 13 years old, he was directed by some older juvenile boys to participate in an armed robbery. During the botched robbery attempt, a Tampa, FL woman (Debbie Baigrie) suffered a nonfatal gunshot wound. When Ian later...

Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher.



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Richard Blanco’s mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born. Forty-five days later, the family immigrated once more to New York City, and eventually settled in...

AWESOME FATHER from AWEsome Me! is a poem that unveils the eyes of children to how AWEsome and valuable they really are to God, The AWESOMEST FATHER 'in tong' (in town). It presents glimpses of the good old and new within Trinidad and...

Frank O'Hara is best known for his poetry, but in this Art Cooking we explore his life as a poet as well as an art curator at MoMA.

Religious scholar, pastor, and all-around fascinating guy Rob Bell thinks that most everyone teaching religious texts these days is teaching it wrong. It's a lot of parables and metaphors, he posits, and there's no way that people should...

Dr Sara Read, an English lecturer at Loughborough University provides a summary of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, Book 10. Following on from her summary of Paradise Lost, Book 9 where Adam and Eve were still in paradise, but...

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...