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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.

education k-12

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Quite Excellent Episode 026 - Today

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2020/05/18

Today By Billy Collins If ever there were a spring day so perfect, so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throw open all the windows in the house and unlatch the door to the canary's cage, indeed, rip the little door from its jamb, a day when the cool brick paths and the garden bursting with peonies seemed so etched in sunlight that you felt like taking a hammer to the glass paperweight on the living room end table, releasing the inhabitants from their snow-covered

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00:14:10

Quite Excellent Episode 025 - Toad Circus

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2020/05/09

Toad Circus by Julia Story The day after my toad circus the toads were all dead, crunchy and silent in their window well. I wanted to draw a doorway to walk through to get to the world of lilacs: purple, contagious green leaves and no movement but the steady invisible breathing of flowers. I knew I had to tell someone what I had done so I first walked to the park and stayed there until dusk, sitting on the glider or in the middle of the rusty and dangerous merry-go-round; I can’t remember which

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00:10:17

Quite Excellent Episode 024 - The Yawn

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2020/05/04

The Yawn by Paul Blackburn The black-haired girl with the big brown eyes on the Queens train coming in to work, so opens her mouth so beautifully wide in a ya-aawn, that two stops after she has left the train I have

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Quite Excellent Episode 023 - Occasional Poem

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2020/04/27

Occasional Poem BY JACQUELINE WOODSON Ms. Marcus says that an occasional poem is a poem written about something important or special that's gonna happen or already did.Think of a specific occasion, she says—and write about it. Like what?! Lamont asks. He's all slouched down in his seat. I don't feel like writing about no occasion. How about your birthday? Ms. Marcus says. What about it? Just a birthday. Comes in June and it ain't June, Lamont says. As a matter of fact, he says, it's January and

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Quite Excellent Episode 022 - Ars Poetica

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2020/04/20

Ars Poetica BY ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the sleeve-worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown— A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. * A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs, Leaving, as the moon releases Twig by twig the night-entangled trees, Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves, Memory by

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Quite Excellent Episode 021 - Days

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2020/04/13

“Days” Tony Mitton Old Day, gold day, where did you go? Over the skyline, sinking low. Into the arms of the waiting night to nestle myself in its dark delight. New day, blue day, what will you bring? Light in the sky and a song to sing. Sun bobs brightly up with the dawn, spreading warmth as the day is born.

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Quite Excellent Episode 020 - On Turning Ten

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2020/04/06

“On Turning Ten”Billy Collins The whole idea of it makes me feellike I'm coming down with something,something worse than any stomach acheor the headaches I get from reading in bad light--a kind of measles of the spirit,a mumps of the psyche,a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking back,but that is because you have forgottenthe perfect simplicity of being oneand the beautiful complexity introduced by two.But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit.At

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Quite Excellent Episode 019 - If I Had Known

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2020/03/30

"If I Had Known" Mary Carolyn Davies If I had known what trouble you were bearing; What griefs were in the silence of your face; I would have been more gentle, and more caring, And tried to give you gladness for a space. I would have brought more warmth into the place, If I had known. If I had known what thoughts despairing drew you; (Why do we never try to understand?) I would have lent a little friendship to you, And slipped my hand within your hand, And made your stay more

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Quite Excellent Episode 018 - Autumn

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2018/09/29

Autumn Kalidasa The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song. A diadem adorns the night Of multitudinous stars; Her silken robe is white moonlight, Set free from cloudy bars; And on her face (the radiant moon) Bewitching smiles are shown: She seems a slender maid, who soon Will be a woman

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Quite Excellent Episode 017 - Did I Miss Anything?

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2018/09/14

Did I Miss Anything? Tom Wayman Nothing. When we realized you weren’t here we sat with our hands folded on our desks in silence, for the full two hours Everything. I gave an exam worth 40 percent of the grade for this term and assigned some reading due today on which I’m about to hand out a quiz worth 50 percent Nothing. None of the content of this course has value or meaning Take as many days off as you like: any activities we undertake as a class I assure you will not

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Quite Excellent Episode 016 - Does Marge Have Friends?

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2018/09/06

Does Maude Have Friends? (A Poem in Fifteen Tweets) Raphael Bob-Waksberg @RaphaelBW Does Marge have friends? @RaphaelBW (a poem in fifteen tweets) @RaphaelBW Who are Marge’s friends? Is Helen Lovejoy a friend? Sarah Wiggum? Agnes Skinner? @RaphaelBW To whom does Marge spill her secrets over coffee on cold days? Who laughs at Marge’s jokes? Who knows Marge, truly and well? @RaphaelBW Who tells Marge to leave the brute, knowing she won’t? “You don’t have to stay. You deserve so much

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Quite Excellent Episode 015 - We Wear the Mask

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2018/04/19

We Wear the Mask BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the

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Quite Excellent Episode 014 - A Good Dog

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2018/02/17

A Good Dog Tail-wagging and leash-pulling as we lead her into her new home, let loose she runs from the front door, runs fast not about the house, wild, but out into the back. Excitement paused for manners, she uses the little dog's room that first sweet day, because She is a Good Dog. Tail-wagging, window-fogging as we bring Santa's snow for wishing children, she's in my lap inside the truck, eager to breath the frozen air. But the window is up, repelling the cold, so she just follows passing

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Quite Excellent Episode 013 - The Wounded Cupid

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2018/02/10

The Wounded Cupid. Song BY ANACREON TRANSLATED BY ROBERT HERRICK Cupid as he lay among Roses, by a Bee was stung. Whereupon in anger flying To his Mother, said thus crying; Help! O help! your Boy’s a dying. And why, my pretty Lad, said she? Then blubbering, replied he, A winged Snake has bitten me, Which Country people call a Bee. At which she smil’d; then with her hairs And kisses drying up his tears: Alas! said she, my Wag! if this Such a pernicious torment is: Come tell me then, how

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Quite Excellent Episode 012 - Cape Cod Pantoum

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2018/02/03

Cape Cod Pantoum Maria Nazos Tonight you’re loaning Billy your car, a brand-new seal-gray Volkswagen Passat with four doors, though last week at 3 a.m., he stole your canoe, and sank it in the autumn sea, then swam ashore. Tonight you’re lending Billy your car—it’s brand-new— and he’s a well-meaning, blue-eyed Byronic drinking man who last week, at 3 a.m., stole your beached canoe, and when it sank he blamed it on a dolphin. A well-meaning, blue-eyed, Byronic, hard-drinking man whose phone calls

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Quite Excellent Episode 011 - Scavengers

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2017/11/18

Your body wakes into its quiet rattle. Ropes & ropes . . .

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Quite Excellent Episode 010 - Leisure (And Bonus...

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2017/11/10

"Leisure" is both celebratory and cautionary, a questioning and observation on the value of taking a rest. My poem is about my daughter and the frustrations of trying to get a child ready for school.

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Quite Excellent Episode 009 - Death

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2017/10/20

A short poem, "Death" says a lot in four lines, leaving me wondering about the inevitably of the end.

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00:08:56

Quite Excellent Episode 008 - Alzheimer's

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2017/10/13

A poem advocating for Alzheimer's awareness, I note how effective it is at exploring presenting hope in the face of horror.

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Quite Excellent Episode 007 - Rain

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2017/09/22

A discussion of the emotional shackles placed on boys, and how their release - through tears - is both freeing and unifying.

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