Tower Poetry 2017: rosetta

Peter McDonald, Vahni Capildeo and Sarah Howe discuss the 2017 Tower Poetry competition. Tower Poetry started in 2000 when a generous bequest to Christ Church, University of Oxford was made by the late Christopher Tower to stimulate an enjoyment and critical appreciation of poetr ... Show More

Annie Fan, second prize winner in the 2017 Tower Poetry competition, reads her poem Qianling Stele. 

Freya Gray Stone, commended prize winner in the 2017 Tower Poetry competition, reads her poem I am a river. 

A reading of 'The Little Red Balloon', the winning entry in the 15-18 category of the Children's Short Story competition, by 17-year-old Emma Broderick, of Muckross Park College, Dublin. 

Spoken word poetry is a powerful tool for storytelling, activism and self-expression. Ella Al-Shamahi speaks to two award-winning poets who use the craft to amplify issues they care about.Sofie Frost is a Norwegian actor, slam poet and spoken word artist. She won the Norwegian Po ... Show More

To celebrate VictorPrep's 100th episode, today Sam reads one of his favorite poems, The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot. Enjoy! 

A poem to connect to, to end the year well. 

Sandra Cisneros joins Kevin Young to read “Shelter,” by José Antonio Rodríguez, and her own poem “Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982.” Cisneros is the recipient of a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a National Medal of Arts, the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, and the PEN/Nab ... Show More

Our Guest Speaker, Mr. Bass, recites his favorite Shel Silversrtein poem. Click and enjoy! 

Poetry. 

Poet Safiya Sinclair performs "Marigolds: A Letter to Wonder," an original poem she created for TED that explores memory, beauty and the fragility of life. After the poem, she talks with TED's Helen Walters about her writing process — and what it feels like when the creative muse ... Show More