Quite Excellent
This podcast is a supplement to in-class instruction, a place to analyze the poems that will be read in class at the start of the following week.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 84
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Quite Excellent Episode 004 - The Infinite
The Infinite
By Charles Simic
The infinite yawns and keeps yawning.
Is it sleepy?
Does it miss Pythagoras?
The sails on Columbus’s three ships?
Does the sound of the surf remind it of itself?
Does it ever s…
Quite Excellent Episode 003 - Bringing My Son to the Police Station to Be Fingerprinted
Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted
Shoshauna Shy
My lemon-colored
whisper-weight blouse
with keyhole closure
and sweetheart neckline is tucked
into a pastel silhouette skirt
with side…
Quite Excellent Episode 002 - Summer Wind
Summer Wind
By William Cullen Bryant
It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk
The dew that lay upon the morning grass;
There is no rustling in the lofty elm
That canopies my dwelling, and its shade
Scarce coo…
Quite Excellent Episode 001 - Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Poetry
BY BILLY COLLINS
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his…