All Episodes
Quite Excellent — 88 episodes
"The Walk Out" - Alice Kinsella
"Peers" - Craig Morgan Teicher
"The Debate" - Alison Luterman
"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris
"In a Grain of Sand" - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
"Driving Upstate with My Father" - C.L. O'Dell
"That Part in the Music" - Carl Phillips
"Why I Respect the Dog" - Catherine Pierce
"The Orange" - Wendy Cope
"Message To a Former Friend" - Tony Hoagland
"Mother Talks Back to the Monster" - Carrie Shipers
"What I Didn't Know Before" - Ada Limón
"Young Poets" - Nicanor Parra
"the name before the name before mine" - Jay Besemer
"Letter to the Person Who Carved Their Initials..." - Matthew Olzmann
"Good Dog" - Tony Hoagland
"Special Problems in Vocabulary" - Tony Hoagland
"The Bats" - Mark Wunderlich
"Whisk" - Anna Scotti
"Boy" - Annelyse Gelman
"The birthday of the world" - Margie Piercy
"Letter" - Tadeusz Dąbrowski
"The Good Life" - Tracy K. Smith
"Before" - Ada Limón
"Transformation" - Adam Zagajewski
"Continue" - Maya Angelou
"This Morning I Pray for My Enemies" - Joy Harjo (Read by Zoe Malia Luz)
"Mercy" - Rudy Francisco (Read by Steven Potts)
Episode 058 - How to Write a Poem
Episode 057 - When Big Trees Fall
Episode 056 - How To Triumph Like A Girl
Episode 055 - Allowables
Episode 054 - You Get Proud By Practicing
Bonus Episode - A Q&A with José Olivarez
Episode 053 - My Therapist / Ars Poetica Analysis, with José Olivarez!
Episode 052 - José Olivarez Double Feature (My Therapist / Ars Poetica)
Episode 051 - The Facebook Sonnet
Bonus Episode - Extended Conversation with Michael DuBon
Episode 050 - Instructions on Not Giving Up
Episode 049 - In the Wash
Episode 048 - The Victory
Episode 047 - Asparagus
Episode 046 - Frosting
Episode 045 - The Hearth
Episode 044 - A Drifting Petal
Episode 043 - The Poem Where I Lie About Everything
Episode 042 - The Hill We Climb
Episode 041 - The Land of Story-Books
Episode 040 - Not Waving But Drowning
Episode 039 - Please
Episode 038 - say it with your whole black mouth
Episode 037 - Harlem
Episode 036 - The Promise
Episode 035 - despecho hour at the casa azul restaurante y cantina
Episode 034 - Did I Miss Anything? (Again)
Episode 033 - The End
Episode 032 - Ode to my Suit
Episode 031 - defining the magic
Episode 030 - Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad
Episode 029 - School Prayer
Episode 028 - A Song About Myself
Episode 027 - The Fairy School Under the Loch
Quite Excellent Episode 026 - Today
Quite Excellent Episode 025 - Toad Circus
Quite Excellent Episode 024 - The Yawn
Quite Excellent Episode 023 - Occasional Poem
Quite Excellent Episode 022 - Ars Poetica
Quite Excellent Episode 021 - Days
Quite Excellent Episode 020 - On Turning Ten
Quite Excellent Episode 019 - If I Had Known
Quite Excellent Episode 018 - Autumn
Quite Excellent Episode 017 - Did I Miss Anything?
Quite Excellent Episode 016 - Does Marge Have Friends?
Quite Excellent Episode 015 - We Wear the Mask
Quite Excellent Episode 014 - A Good Dog
Quite Excellent Episode 013 - The Wounded Cupid
Quite Excellent Episode 012 - Cape Cod Pantoum
Quite Excellent Episode 011 - Scavengers
Quite Excellent Episode 010 - Leisure (And Bonus Poem: On My Daughter's Twentieth Minute...)
Quite Excellent Episode 009 - Death
Quite Excellent Episode 008 - Alzheimer's
Quite Excellent Episode 007 - Rain
Quite Excellent Episode 006 - It's Raining In Love
Quite Excellent Episode 005 - What the Spider Heard
Quite Excellent Episode 004 - The Infinite
Quite Excellent Episode 003 - Bringing My Son to the Police Station to Be Fingerprinted
Quite Excellent Episode 002 - Summer Wind
Quite Excellent Episode 001 - Introduction to Poetry