Quite Excellent Podcast
1) "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— these were our twenties, when, post-9/11, we were about...Show More
2) "The Debate" - Alison Luterman
“The Debate” by Alison Luterman I’m listening to my father and his brother, both in their eighties, debate their childhood from adjoining La-Z-Boy recliners. “We had no toys,” my father insists. “Wh...Show More
3) "Small Kindnesses" - Danusha Laméris
Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone...Show More
4) "In a Grain of Sand" - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
In a Grain of Sand By Jesús Papoleto Meléndez To see a world in a grain of sand … —from “Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake We are Starseeds every one of us – ...Show More
5) "Driving Upstate with My Father" - C.L. O'Dell
Driving Upstate with My Father C.L. O’Dell at the end of a bad year. Trees begin to outnumber houses. Rain turns to snow as fields hang like paintings. Dad fills his lip with chew, talks. The truck i...Show More
6) "That Part in the Music" - Carl Phillips
That Part in the Music Carl Phillips Once loyal to a cruel master, the dog moves like a man who not so long ago weighed a lot less and is still figuring the difference, what if anything to make of i...Show More
7) "Why I Respect the Dog" - Catherine Pierce
Why I Respect the Dog By Catherine Pierce The dog weighs twelve pounds and uses them as she pleases. The king-size bed is not big enough. Sleep enabler, stretch-monger, when she wants to be touched, ...Show More
8) "The Orange" - Wendy Copy
The Orange By Wendy Cope At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange, i...Show More
9) "Message To a Former Friend" - Tony Hoagland
Message To a Former Friend By Tony Hoagland I just wanted to write and say, in case you are hit tomorrow by a truck or are swept from the beach by a freak wave; or in case your ex-wife decides to t...Show More
10) "Mother Talks Back to the Monster" - Carrie Shipers
Mother Talks Back to the Monster By Carrie Shipers Tonight, I dressed my son in astronaut pajamas, kissed his forehead and tucked him in. I turned on his night-light and looked for you in the close...Show More