Arts

Quite Excellent

Wes Lydon

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.

Episodes

20 of 87 episodes

"Peers" - Craig Morgan Teicher

“Peers” By Craig Morgan Teicher I’m thinking of you beautiful and young, of me young and confused and maybe beautiful. There were lots of us...

00:21:30Feb 4, 2026

"The Debate" - Alison Luterman

Photo from scop.io (Id: 57410526-404a-4382-aae4-6f0607107501) Artist: Likhith Suresh Posted Date: 5/14/20

00:17:01Oct 13, 2025

"Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris

Photo from scop.io (Id: f3fbd667-6ef5-4540-a813-b2721692980a) Artist: Iuliia Prokopiv Posted Date: 12/11/20

00:7:44Sep 8, 2025

"In a Grain of Sand" - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez

Photo from scop.io (Id: fdf682a8-7932-42e1-b8bc-962a6ab91f2b) Artist: Gabriela Dukova Posted Date: 5/9/2020

00:23:08Apr 7, 2025

"Driving Upstate with My Father" - C.L. O'Dell

Photo from scop.io (Id: 05b54fc7-47f7-40d1-b56f-38045dd4fc06) Artist: Timothy Garding Posted Date: 1/20/19

00:19:17Jan 13, 2025

"That Part in the Music" - Carl Phillips

Photo from scop.io (Id: 7ddfe8b5-fddb-462d-bf07-5bcae64eef23) Artist: Ravindra Kumar Posted Date: 01/9/22

00:20:55Oct 21, 2024

"Why I Respect the Dog" - Catherine Pierce

Photo from scop.io (Id: 12b9bcbf-4ffb-4296-8af5-11957d58401c) Artist: Olga Kapustina Posted Date: 01/20/22

00:18:21Sep 16, 2024

"The Orange" - Wendy Cope

Photo from scop.io (Id: c427bd94-5fc3-404c-bd48-1afc27d89b17) Artist: Roberto Dziura Posted Date: 08/28/20

00:06:00Aug 20, 2024

"Message To a Former Friend" - Tony Hoagland

Photo from PxHere (#946822) Posted Date: 03/03/2017

00:21:02Apr 8, 2024

"Mother Talks Back to the Monster" - Carrie Shipers

Photo from PxHere Posted Date: 02/10/2017

00:17:36Feb 28, 2024

"What I Didn't Know Before" - Ada Limón

Photo from Zuzanna Chromiec @ scop.io Posted Date: May 21, 2020 5:48AM

00:17:50Jan 22, 2024

"Young Poets" - Nicanor Parra

Photo from Gary Cummins @ scop.io

00:17:57Nov 6, 2023

"the name before the name before mine" - Jay Besemer

Read by Rayann Hijazi Photo from pxhere.com

00:16:56Oct 9, 2023

"Letter to the Person Who Carved Their Initials..." - Matthew Olzmann

Read by Wayne Walsh Photo from scopio artist Juan Pablo Bezaury

00:18:14Sep 11, 2023

"Good Dog" - Tony Hoagland

Read by Lydon Photo from scopio artist chandan Mohapatra

00:07:16Aug 21, 2023

"Special Problems in Vocabulary" - Tony Hoagland

Read by Lydon Photo from Dall-e

00:23:49Apr 24, 2023

"The Bats" - Mark Wunderlich

Read by Traci Tolbert Photo from scop.io Sudha Surendran

00:17:51Feb 27, 2023

"Whisk" - Anna Scotti

Read by Angela South Photos from scop.io Andrii Shablovskyi Scopio ID: 7380317110449

00:21:28Jan 30, 2023

"Boy" - Annelyse Gelman

Read by John Nightengale Photos from scop.io Oksana Soronovych Scopio ID: 6261676114097 Cory Whitfield Scopio ID: 3938999435287 Joel Woods S...

00:43:34Jan 9, 2023

"The birthday of the world" - Margie Piercy

Read by Me Photo from Vaibhav Kumar @ scop.io Scopio ID: 6262409822385

00:4:01Dec 19, 2022