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5:06

Golshifteh Farahani

"Woman, Life, Freedom" in Iran — and what it means for the rest of the world

Posted May 2023
4:36

Charita Gainey

How Phillis Wheatley captured the attention of the world

Posted Aug 2022
4:11

Naima Penniman

"Being Human"

Posted Nov 2021
5:06

Diane J. Rayor

Ancient Greece's greatest popstar

Posted Sep 2021
5:11

Apiorkor Seyiram Ashong-Abbey

"Fearless"

Posted Jan 2021
5:48

Amanda Gorman

"The Hill We Climb"

Posted Jan 2021
2:17

Emily Dickinson

What happens when you die? A poetic inquiry

Posted Dec 2020
3:31

Andri Snær Magnason

On time and water

Posted Oct 2020
2:03

Lewis Carroll

"Jabberwocky": One of literature's best bits of nonsense

Posted Sep 2020
4:51

Philip Freeman

The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors

Posted Jul 2020
29:16

Aaron Maniam

New ways to understand life in a pandemic

Posted Jul 2020
17:54

William Sieghart

The connective potential of poetry

Posted Jun 2020
14:55

Poet Ali

The language of being human

Posted May 2020
10:38

Oliver Jeffers

An ode to living on Earth

Posted Apr 2020
4:34

Soraya Field Fiorio

Who was the world's first author?

Posted Mar 2020
4:32

Theresa A. Yugar

History's "worst" nun

Posted Nov 2019
4:27

Maria Popova

An excerpt from "Figuring"

Posted Nov 2019
4:56

Sheila Marie Orfano

Why should you read Dante's "Divine Comedy"?

Posted Oct 2019
3:23

Aracelis Girmay

"For Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me A Card"

Posted Oct 2019
4:50

Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara

The myth of the Sampo— an infinite source of fortune and greed

Posted Sep 2019
1:00

Clint Smith

"Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class"

Posted Sep 2019
7:14

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

"You Have the Rite"

Posted Aug 2019
4:29

Ilan Stavans

Romance and revolution: The poetry of Pablo Neruda

Posted Jul 2019
4:31

Ilan Stavans

Infinity according to Jorge Luis Borges

Posted Jul 2019
1:18

Emma Lazarus

"New Colossus"

Posted Jul 2019
4:53

Sarah Kay

"A Bird Made of Birds"

Posted Jun 2019
2:03

Robert Frost

"The Road Not Taken"

Posted Jun 2019
2:20

Marie Howe

"The Singularity"

Posted Jun 2019
1:18

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

"Three Months After"

Posted Jun 2019
2:27

William Shakespeare

"All the World's a Stage"

Posted Jun 2019
4:25

Brendan Constantine

The Opposites Game

Posted Jun 2019
1:49

William Butler Yeats

"The Second Coming"

Posted May 2019
4:35

Andrea Gibson

"The Nutritionist"

Posted May 2019
2:02

Safia Elhillo

"To Make Use of Water"

Posted May 2019
2:22

Denice Frohman

"Accents"

Posted May 2019
4:31

Silvia Moreno-García

Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft

Posted Apr 2019