I’ve been aware of the Favorite Poems Project for a while now, but it was only last night that I started watching some of the videos. And they are outstanding — and moving.

Every single video I’ve seen has touched me. I’m listing links to four of them here — all of which come from students. Each one underscores the importance of art in our lives, in understanding who we are, what we are feeling, were we’re going — and that we are never alone.

On Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody, Who Are You?”

On Countee Cullen’s “Yet Do I Marvel”

On Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool"

On Langston Hughes’s “Minstrel Man”