Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 15, 2026)

 

Today's songs/poems come from 630ish BCE in the form of the book If Not, Winter: Fragments by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson.

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🠊 Past sessions of Wake to Words here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Poetry sessions appear live some Sunday mornings at https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle  

🠊 Can't view video? It must be thirty days since it was posted, which means it has automatically been removed from the Facebook platform. Dammit! Come back soon to listen to other poems. :)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 8, 2026)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 8, 2026)

Reading good poems by other people, most Sundays.

Poems by Jack Gilbert, from his book The Great Fires:

• Going Wrong
• Guilty
• The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart

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🠊 Past sessions of Wake to Words here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Poetry sessions appear live some Sunday mornings at https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle  

🠊 Can't view video? It must be thirty days since it was posted, which means it has automatically been removed from the Facebook platform. Dammit! Come back soon to listen to other poems. :)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 1, 2026)

 

Reading poems by Ada Limón from her book Bright Dead Things

• Downhearted
• Miracle Fish
• The Whale & the Waltz Inside of It

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🠊 Past sessions of Wake to Words here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Poetry sessions appear live some Sunday mornings at https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle  

🠊 Can't view video? It must be thirty days since it was posted, which means it has automatically been removed from the Facebook platform. Dammit! Come back soon to listen to other poems. :)

"Poolside," a new story up at Bone Parade

My story "Poolside" is now available for reading in Bone Parade, Issue #18. 

It's good to be in the home of a journal that "publishes quality works of magical realism, fabulism, speculative, and weird fiction."

As I imagine it, my story is set in the backyard next door to my childhood home. Hopefully, the setting is as vivid to you as it is in my memory--though this isn't required (or able to be known, really).

Cheers,

Erin
 

Link to copy/paste: https://www.boneparade.com/2025/11/29/poolside-by-erin-pringle/

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"Springtime in Missoula," New Story up at Moss.

I've been remiss, despite my gratitude. In November, Moss. brought its newest issue to life, with one of my stories in it, and my internal joy did not translate to an outward announcement. Until now. And so, here we are. My story "Springtime in Missoula" is available for your reading experience in Volume 10 of Moss.

The story started writing itself on a napkin when my family found itself in a Missoula ice-cream shop. And now it's ready.

Moss. is the same wonderful journal that published "Chair, $75 OBO," a story that appeared in my last collection Unexpected Weather Events. I'm honored that the editors deigned to share another of my stories, and am consistently pleased with how fluid and easy the journal's process flows from acceptance to publication--not to mention the beauty of the final product. 

If you live in the Northwest, please find Moss. at a local bookseller; for those outside of our region, the post office will do exactly what you request upon ordering: https://mosslit.com/Subscriptions 

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New Story Up at Crow & Cross Keys

 

Friends and Readers! Thanks to Crow & Cross Keys, I have a newly available story for your reading experience. I wrote the story many years ago and returned to it this summer to find that I love it as much now as I did when it arrived to the page. That its style is more similar to the stories in my first collection, The Floating Order, is no mistake, as I wrote it in that time of my life--though too late to include it in The Floating Order and too far from The Whole World at Once for it to fit the style of those stories.

So, please help me welcome this strange thing into the world of reading: Still Life in Blue  

(Full Link for copy/paste: https://crowcrosskeys.com/2026/01/24/still-life-in-blue-erin-pringle/) 

P.S. I very much enjoyed working with this journal; everything flowed from acceptance to publication, and I surely appreciate that.

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 25, 2026)

Reading good poems by other people on Sundays.

 

Poems by W.S. Merwin from his book Garden Time:

• The Uncounted Age
• Pianist in the Dark
• Only Now
• Cowbell

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🠊 Can't view video? It must be thirty days since it was posted, which means it has automatically been removed from the Facebook platform. Dammit! Come back soon to listen to other poems. :)

🠊 Past sessions of Wake to Words here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Poetry sessions appear live some Sunday mornings at https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle  

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 4, 2026)

Welcome to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee and the newest year on the books. In today's poetry session, I'm reading poems by Mary Oliver. Because I record the readings via Facebook, the recordings now last only thirty days before automatic deletion. As I'm not interested in finding alternative solutions, our poetry series now has a more fleeting quality than before, which is rather lovely, actually. 

So, if you have stumbled upon this poetry session and the video is not accessible, it's because enough time has passed between my now and your now to make a past tangible enough to delete it. 

Poems

• Some Questions You Might Ask
• Moccasin Flowers
• Spring

From House of Light, by Mary Oliver

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🠊 Past sessions of Wake to Words here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Poetry sessions appear some Sunday mornings at https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle