Wake to Words

Most every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Easily find a past Sunday of poetry here; listen to any episode by clicking on the date. 

Update 9/7/25: Facebook now deletes videos after thirty days. I will continue to archive video content here, but all links to readings will expire shortly.

2026

March 8, 2026
Poems by Jane Hirshfield

February 15, 2026
Poems by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson

February 8, 2026
Poems by Jack Gilbert

February 1, 2026
Poems by Ada Limón

January 25, 2026
Poems by W.S. Merwin

January 4, 2026
Poems by Mary Oliver

2025

December 28, 2025
Poems by Hanshan

Poems:
  • The Meeting by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • 1918 by Ostap Slyvynsky, tr. by Anton Tenser and Tatiana Filimonova (from In The Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine)
  • The Nude Swim by Anne Sexton (from her book Love Poems)

Poems: 
  • Poem of a Houseboat Stranded in a Field by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
  • The Old Elm Tree by the River by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • The Summer Day by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)
Poems:
  • Not Early or Late by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
  • My Other Dark by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
  • The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • The Want of Peace by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • Two Watches by Mosab Abu Toha (from his book Forest of Noise)
  • See the Kites? by Mosab Abu Toha (from his book Forest of Noise)

2024

Poems:
  • The Blackboard by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
  • Fieldnotes on Carrying by Caroline Harper New (from her book A History of Half-Birds)
  • The Riveter by Ada Limón (from her book Bright Dead Things)
  • Mama Said Nothing Good by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
  • The Wild Geese by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
Poems:
  • Grace by Wendell Berry
  • The Burial of the Old by Wendell Berry
  • A Lake Scene by May Swenson (from Poetry, 91:5 Feb. 1958)
  • Old Moon River Moon by Susan Bright (from her book Atomic Basket)
The Burial of the Old by Wendell Berry A Lake Scene by May Swenson (from Poetry, 91:5 Feb. 1958) Old Moon River Moon by Susan Bright (from her book Atomic Basket)

Today's poems are by Rosabetty Muñoz, tr. by Claudia Nuñez de Ibieta (from Poetry, Oct. 2024/225:1) 

  • Doña Sebastiana I
  • Alao
  • Tranqui

Poems:

  • Rental Property by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry for Survival)
  • The Old Flame by Robert Lowell (from his book For the Union Dead)
  • Supplanting by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

Poems:
  • Rumination by Phoebe Giannisi, tr. Brian Sweden (from Poetry, 224:4 July/August 2024)
  • Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert (from Collected Poems)

Poems:

  • The Noisiness of Sleep by Ada Limón (from her book Bright Dead Things)
  • Poem with a Missing Pilot by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
  • Making Church Glass Ours by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Glass Cabin, cowritten with James Braziel)
Poems:
  • Gravity
  • Chemise by Kay Ryan (from her book Say Uncle)
  • Slowness by Polly Buckingham (from her book River People)
  • portrait of the rain by Jan Wagner, trans. by David Keplinger (appears in Poetry, Volume 221: Number 1)

Poems:
  • The Sun by Anne Sexton (from her collection Live or Die)
  • Moon Song for my mother by Caroline Harper New (from her collection A History of Half-Birds)
  • What Remains Grows Ravenous by Ada Limón (from her collection Bright Dead Things)

Poems:
  • "Whatever Gets The Hay Down to the Ponies" by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Out Takes/Glove Box)
  • The Riveter by Ada Limón (from her book Bright Dead Things)

Poems:
  • Sweethearts by C.L. O'Dell (from Poetry, March 2024 issue)
  • Stunt Double by Tomás Q. Morín (from Poetry, March 2024 issue)
Poems:

Poems:
  • Ubi sunt? by Laura Kasischke (from her book Where Now - New and Selected Poems)
  • Address to the Angels by Maxine Kumin (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)
  • Sitting in a Small Screenhouse on a Summer Morning by James Wright (from his Collected Poems-1990)

Poems:

  • Make Me No Lazy Love by Norma Farber (from Poetry, January 1958)
  • Our City is Guarded by Automatic Rockets by William Stafford (from Poetry, January 1958)
  • Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)
Poems:
  • On the Floor by Humberto Ak'abal, trans. by Michael Bazzett from the Spanish (appears in Poetry, Jan/Feb 2024)
  • Mask by Regan Huff (appears in Poetry Jan/Feb 2024)
  • The Retrieval System by Maxine Kumin (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)
  • Progress Report by Maxine Kumin (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)
Poems:
  • Address to the Angels (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)
  • My Father's Neckties by Maxine Kumin (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)
  • The Farmer and the Sea by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • Awake at Night by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

2023

Poems:
  • The Pawnbroker by Maxine Kumin (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)
  • The Wild Geese by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)

Poems:
  • The Plan by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • Hiking with the Old Acorn Lady by J.W. Rivers (1988)
  • Mason Jars by the Window by Alberto Rios (1988)
  • Last Hike Before Leaving Montana by Patricia Traxler (from her book Naming the Fires, 2015)
  • Grace by Wendell Berry (1967)
  • The Hike by Neil Weiss (1955)
  • The Burial of the Old by Wendell Berry (1967)
Poems:
  • The Blackboard by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
  • This Compost by Walt Whitman (from Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by James E. Miller, Jr.)
Poems:
  • He Writes by Kateryna Kalytko, trans. by Oksana Lutayshyna and Olena Jennings
  • [Less than a day before the beginning of war] by Kateryna Kalytko, trans. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky 
  • 1918 by Ostap Slyvynksy, trans. by Anton Tenser and Tatiana Filimonova


Poems:
  • Everybody Lying on their Stomachs, Head Toward the Candle, Reading, Sleeping, Drawing by Gary Snyder (from his book No Nature)
  • Love’s Map by Donald Justice (from his book The Summer Anniversaries)
  • The Other House by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
Poems:
  • November by Maggie Dietz
  • Winter by Marie Ponsot
  • November by Billy Collins

Poems, both by Anne Carson and from her book Plainwater:

  • On The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deyman 
  • On Orchids


Poems:
  • Storm King by Linda L. Beeman (from her book Wallace, Idaho)
  • Excerpts from Chris La Tray's book One Sentence Journal
  • How to Corner the Market on Horse Cadavers by Lindsay Sletten (from Poetry/October 2021)
  • The Bird her punctual music brings by Emily Dickinson (from Final Harvest, edited by Thomas H. Johnson)
  • Self in 1958 by Anne Sexton (from The Complete Poems)
  • Witchgrass by Louise Glück
  • Celestial Music by Louise Glück (from The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997, edited by Harold Bloom/series editor David Lehman)

Poems by Jack Gilbert (from his Collected Poems)
  • A Stubborn Ode
  • Scheming in the Snow

Poems:

  • Night Letter by Diane Thiel (from her book Resistance Fantasies)
  • Under Stars by Tess Gallagher (from her book Under Stars)
  • Ghosts by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)

Poem: The Maiden Without Hands by Anne Sexton (from her book Transformations)

Poems:

Poems:
  • What is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People by Ariel Yelen (from Poetry/March 2022)
  • Contentment by Rüştü Onur, trans by Hüseyin Alhas and Ulaş Özgün (from Poetry/March 2022)
  • A Great Nowhere by Öykü Tekten (from Poetry/April 2022)
  • Tablets VI by Dunya Mikhail (from Poetry/April 2022)
Poems by Tony Hoagland from his book Donkey Gospel:
  • Memory as a Hearing Aid
  • Arrows
Prose: 
Opening of The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

Prose:
"A Game of Telephone" by Erin Pringle, from her story collection Unexpected Weather Events

Poems:

  • Waking at Night
  • Cherishing What Isn’t 
(Both by Jack Gilbert from his Collected Poems)

Poems:
  • Space & Time by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry of Survival)
  • Two Laments by Daniel Halpern (from his book Traveling on Credit)
  • Choice by Susan Bright (from her book Atomic Basket)
  • Immortality by AI (from her book Sin)

Poems read:

  • Summer Sky by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
  • The Wings of Daylight by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
  • Man at a Window by Jack Gilbert (from The Great Fires)
  • Not Most by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from Known by Salt)
  • XII. by Wendell Berry (of Sabbath Poems 2015, collected in his book A Small Porch)

Poems:
  • 3 A.M. Kitchen: My Father Talking by Tess Gallagher (from her book, Under Stars)
  • Exile by Carolyn Forché (from her book, In the Lateness of the World)
  • II. To The National Security Agency
  • III. (both by Wendell Berry, from his book A Small Porch)
  • Death Town
  • Luck Town (both by Anne Carson, from The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1987)
  • When You Clean Your Weapon by Borys Humenyuk, trans. by Oksana Maksymuchuk and Max Rosochinsky (from In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine)
  • [Take Immortality, God, but give] by Dmitry Bliznyk, trans. by Ilya Kaminsky (from In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine)
  • Eating Dinner Alone at the 163rd Street Mall by Ariel Francisco (from the anthology LatiNEXT: Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4)
  • In the Reunion of My Selves by Aline Mello (from the anthology LatiNEXT: Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4)
  • Work Shirt by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)

Poems:

  • Poem Starved for Music 
  • Poem with a Girl Almost Fifteen

Both by C.D. Wright from her book Shallcross

  • Listen! by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • Gift Horses by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)
  • Second Language by Jericho Brown (from his book The Tradition)
  • Old Man at Home Alone in the Morning by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)

  • The Rival by Sylvia Plath (from her book Ariel)
  • Malines by Paul Verlaine (from his book Songs without Words, trans. Donald Revell)
  • Turtle by Robert Lowell (from his Collected Poems)
Poems:
  • Coming Home from the Post Office by Philip Levine (from his book What Work Is)
  • Claims by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
  • Misery and Splendor by Robert Hass (from his book Human Wishes)
  • Riddle by Laura Kasischke (from her book Space, in Chains) 
Poems:
  • As if Darkness Can Mend It All by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Rust Fish)
  • Once Later by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
  • The River People by Polly Buckingham (from her book The River People)
  • Place Setting by Ann Tweedy (in Lavender Review 2012)
Poems:
  • The Miraculous by Kim Addonizio (from her book Now We're Getting Somewhere)
  • Happiness Report by Kim Addonizio (from her book Now We're Getting Somewhere)
  • Lament by Bert Meyers (from Poetry, January 2023 221:4)
  • Homecoming by Bert Meyers (from Poetry, January 2023 221:4)
Poems:

  • Spring by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)
  • Skunk Cabbage by Rennie McQuilkin (found in the book Nature for the Very Young: A Handbook of Indoor & Outdoor Activities)
  • For the Future by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • From Time to Time by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)

Poem read: The Lost Land by Eavan Boland

Poems read: 

  • Flight by Linda L. Beeman (from her book Wallace, Idaho)
  • The Poet at Seven by Donald Justice (from his book The Summer Anniversaries)
  • All the Dead Dears by Sylvia Plath (from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes)
  • The Blue Flannel Suit by Ted Hughes (from his book Birthday Letters)

Poems read:

  • Sabbath Poem VII. In time a man disappears by Wendell Berry (from his book Leavings)
  • Landscape with Little Figures by Donald Justice (from his book The Summer Anniversaries)
  • On the Death of Friends in Childhood by Donald Justice (from his book The Summer Anniversaries)
  • Stranger by Night by Edward Hirsch (from The Best American Poetry 2019, eds. Major Jackson and David Lehman)

Poems read:
  • Just Once by Anne Sexton (from her book Love Poems)
  • VII. by Wendell Berry (a 2006 Sabbath poem from his book Leavings)
  • Shaping by Mahmud Al-Braikan, trans. by Haider Al-Kabi (from Atlanta Review, Iraq, Spring/Summer 2007)
Poems:

By Emily Dickinson:

  • A Thought went up my mind today 
  • If I can stop one Heart from breaking

(both poems in Final Harvest, edited by Thomas H. Johnson)

By Wendell Berry:

  • Questionnaire (from his book Leavings)
  • XV. (Sabbath Poem from 2005, collected in his book Leavings)

Poems:

By Marvin Bell from his book Mars Being Red
  • Coffee
  • What Things Are
By Wendell Berry from his book Leavings
  • A Letter (to Ed McClanahan)
  • Men Untrained to Comfort

Poems read:

  • Downtown in January Poem by c.d. wright (from her book Shallcross)
  • Obscurity and Isolation by c.d. wright (from her book Shallcross)
  • Playing House by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)
  • Theoretical Lives by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires) 
  • The Farmer and the Sea by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • Awake at Night by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
Poems read:

  • Sabbath Poem IV. (2015 series) by Wendell Berry (from his book A Small Porch)
  • Flow Chart by Kathleen Flenniken (from her book Plume)
  • The Flower Horses by Laura Read (from her book Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral)
  • A Work for Poets by George Mackay Brown (from his book Carve the Runes)
Poems read:
  • Winter by Billy Collins
  • Some Questions You Might Ask by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)
  • First Date by Daniel Halpern (from his book Traveling on Credit)
  • January by Robert Hass (from his book Human Wishes)
  • Poem without Angel Food by c.d. wright (from her book Shallcross)
Poems read:

  • Pain for a Daughter by Anne Sexton (from her book Live or Die)
  • Nights and Days by Adrienne Rich (from her book The Dream of a Common Language)
  • Lost Poem by Molly Saty (from her book put sparklers on my grave)
  • Remembering to Sing by Patricia Smith (from her book Blood Dazzler)

2022

December 18, 2022

Poems read:

  • Training by Diannely Antigua (from Poetry/December 2021)
  • Dried Flowers by Daniel Moysaenko (from Poetry/January 2022)
  • Definitive by Melissa Sauma, translated by Janet McAdams (from Poetry/March 2022)
  • Dogs' Wedding by Zêdan Xelef (from Poetry/April 2022)
Poems read:
  • Autumn Equinox by George Mackay Brown (from his book Carve the Ruins)
  • Envoi by Charles Wright (from his book Black Zodiac)
  • Travel Agency by Dunya Mikhail (from her book The War Works Hard, trans. by Elizabeth Winslow)
  • IX. by Wendell Berry (“In the early morning we awaken” from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
Poems read:

By Tina Mozelle Braziel:

  • Known by Salt
  • Beneath the Trailer

By Wendell Berry:

  • The Old Elm by the River
  • The Record

By Polly Buckingham

  • Outside my Window
  • Grieving at the Longest Traffic Light in the World
Poems read:

  • Early Kitchen by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry of Survival)
  • The Cast Off by Marge Piercy (from her book The Moon is Always Female)
  • Newton’s Apple by Brooke Matson (from her book In Accelerated Silence)
  • As if Darkness Can Mend All by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Rust Fish)
Poems read:

  • Grace by Wendell Berry 
  • The Burial of the Old by Wendell Berry 

Poems read:
  • Dusty Plays the Piano by Simon J. Ortiz (from his book from Sand Creek)
  • Park Bench by Jack Jung (from Poetry, April 2022)
  • Hard Times by Eric Gansworth (from When The Light of The World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, edited by Joy Harjo)
  • Eel by James Thomas Stevens (from When The Light of The World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, edited by Joy Harjo)
Poems read:
  • These poems from The Black Poets, A New Anthology edited by Dudley Randall:
    • Langston Hughes 
      • The Negro Speaks of Rivers (To W.E.B. DuBois)
      • Children’s Rhymes
      • Words like Freedom
    • James A. Randall, Jr.
      • When Something Happens 
    • Nikki Giovanni
      • For Saundra
      • Knoxville, Tennessee
      • The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • "What it Feels Like to Exhale," editorial by Sandy Williams (from The Black Lens News, issue December 2017)
  • Excerpts from part III of Citizen, An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
  • Things Get Harder When It Rains by beyza ozer (from Halal if You Hear Me, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3)
  • These poems by William Evans from his book Still Can’t Do My Daughter’s Hair
    • Gigi
    • Even Though I Love You More Than Anything That Won’t Stop Them From Killing You
    • I Turn The Volume Down Because Beyoncé Says Fuck While I Drive My Daughter to School
  • These poems by AI from her book SIN
    • More (for James Wright)
    • The Man with The Saxophone
  • These poems by Audre Lorde from The Selected Works of Audre Lorde:
    • If You Come Softly
    • Progress Report
    • A Sewerplant Grows in Harlem Or I’m a Stranger Here Myself When Does The Next Swan Leave
  • These poems by Jericho Brown from his book The Tradition:
    • The Tradition
    • Foreday in the Morning 
    • Shovel
  • dream where every black person is standing by the ocean by Danez Smith (from his book Don’t Call Us Dead)
  • Mothering is Poetry by Nayyirah Waheed, written in commemoration of Afeni Shakur (selected by Sandy Williams for the Black Lens News, issue March 2019)
Poems read:
  • After Bishop by Natalya Sukhonos (from Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28/Summer Fall 2022)
  • On Orchids by Anne Carson (from her book Plainwater)
  • The Finishing Work by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
  • Portrait of my Father by Kathleen Flenniken (from her book Plume)

Poems read:

  • Fifteen by William Stafford 
  • A Room by Carolyn Forche (from her book In the Lateness of the World)
  • The Unsaying by Ann Tweedy (from Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28)
  • Double Mastectomy by Nikki Ummel (from Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28)
  • Fellowship Application by Joseph Rios (from LatiNEXT: The Breakbeat Poets, Vol. 4)

Poems read:
  • Locked Doors by Anne Sexton (from her book The Awful Rowing Toward God)
  • Morning Song by Sylvia Plath (from The Collected Poems)
  • Luck Town by Anne Carson (from The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997)
  • Town on the Way Through God's Woods by Anne Carson (from The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997)
  • A Story About the Body by Robert Hass (from his book Human Wishes)
  • Envoi by Charles Wright (from his book Black Zodiac)
  • When I Read the Book by Walt Whitman (from Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by James E. Miller, Jr.)
August 14, 2022
  • Architect’s Watercolor by Arthur Sze (from Poetry, October 2021)
  • Blades of Grace by Carolina Duan (from Poetry, October 2021)
  • Thankful by Patricia Smith (from her book Blood Dazzler)
  • Song of the Stone and The Lost Child by George Mackay Brown (from his book Carve the Ruins)
  • XIII. by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
  • A Ghost Sings by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)
  • I Imagine the Gods by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)
  • Naming by Polly Buckingham (from her book The River People)
  • Ms. Chisolm’s Red Jacket by Polly Buckingham (from The River People)
August 7, 2022

  • In the Reunion of All My Selves by Aline Mello (from LatiNEXT: The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4)
  • We May No Longer Consider the End by Ruth Ellen Kocher (from The Best American Poetry, 2019)
  • Riddle by Laura Kasischke (from Space, in Chains)
  • My Brother is Asking for Stamps by Michael Torres (from Poetry, Feb. 2021)
  • Look at What I’ve Done! by Porsha Olayiwola (from her book I Shimmer Sometimes, Too)
  • from Sand Creek by Simon J. Ortiz 

Poems read:
  • The Tempest by Roberto Carlos Garcia (from LatiNEXT: BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 4)
  • Dried Flowers by Daniel Mosaenko (from Poetry, January 2022)
  • Fisherman’s Son by Chris La Tray (from his book One-Sentence Journal)
  • Rental Property by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry of Survival)
  • In one battle by Imamu Amiri Baraka (from The Black Poets, edited by Dudley Randall)
  • Sad Math by Mike Owens (from Best American Poetry 2018)
  • Silver Spoon Ode by Sharon Olds (from Best American Poetry 2018)
Poems read:
  • Portrait and Shadow by Andrés Cerpa (LatiNEXT: Break Beat Poets, Vol. 4)
  • For the Record by Naomi Ayala (LatiNEXT: Break Beat Poets, Vol. 4)
  • Beneath the Trailer by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
  • No Cause for Prediction by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
  • What It Looks Like to Us and the Words We Use by Ada Limón (archived at Poetry Foundation)
  • Late Summer After a Panic Attack by Ada Limón (archived at Poetry Foundation)
Poems read:

  • Swimming Lessons by Daniel Halpern (from his book Foreign Neon)
  • Nights & Days by Adrienne Rich (from her book The Dream of a Common Language)
  • Forward & Reverse by m.l. smoker (from her book Another Attempt at Rescue)
  • Hash Marks by Nikky Finney (from her book Head Off & Split)
  • Elegy by Lena Tuffaha (from the anthology Halal if You Hear Me, the Break Beat Poets Vol. 3)
  • II. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems 2014, from his book A Small Porch)
Poems read:
  • I Was in a Hurry by Dunya Mikhail (from her book The War Works Hard, trans. by Elizabeth Winslow)
  • Poem in a Trance by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
  • Poem with a Missing Pilot by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
  • Everything Natalie by Arielle Greenberg (from her book My Kafka Century)
  • There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women by Audre Lorde
Poems read:
  • Flee on Your Donkey by Anne Sexton
  • For Strong Women by Marge Piercy
Poems read:
  • The Want of Peace by Wendell Berry
  • The Plan by Wendell Berry
  • Foraging for Wood on the Mountain by Jack Gilbert 
  • A Ghost Sings, A Door Opens by Jack Gilbert
Poems read:
  • Between Walls by William Carlos Williams
  • The Embankment by T.E. Hulme
  • A Fixed Idea by Amy Lowell
Poems read:

Poems read:

  • I, This Body by Ilya Kaminsky (from Deaf Republic)
  • The Owls by Baudelaire (from Selected Poems, translated by Joanna Richardson)
  • Mother-Right by Adrienne Rich (from The Dream of a Common Language)
  • Sabbath Poem ll. from Sabbaths 2015, Section ll. by Wendell Berry (from A Small Porch)
  • Griefs for Dead Soldiers by Ted Hughes (from The Hawk in the Rain)
  • The Gift by Mary Oliver (from House of Light)
  • Three Green Windows by Anne Sexton (from Live or Die)

Poems read:
  • The Number of Hives Before We Panic’s Your Matter of Opinion by Ben Cartwright (from The Meanest Things Pick Clean)
  • Three Thoughts After Crossing Nameless Creek by Maggie Smith (from the literary journal Willow Springs 83/Spring 2019)
  • It’s Called the Sea by Ellen Welcker (from Ram Hands)
  • No Cause for Prediction by Tina Mozzelle Braziel (from Known by Salt)
  • Blue Door by Kim Addonizio (from Tell Me)
  • Insulated by Molly Saty (from Put Sparklers on my Grave)

Poems read:
  • The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine (from Best American Poetry 2018)
  • Love Letter from Inside Fatherhood by Fritz Ward (from Poetry, September 2021)
  • The Old Elm Tree by the River by Wendell Berry (from The Peace of Wild Things)
  • I'm a Bad Engineer by Chidozie George Emesowum (from Poetry, March 2022)
  • a note on the body by Danez Smith (from Don't Call Us Dead)
Poem read:
  • "Mothers" composed by my pre-k and kindergarten students
Poems read:
  • Blood Gang Call by Juan Felipe Herrera (from 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border)
  • To Carolyn’s Father by Kathleen Flenniken (from Plume)
  • Coming Close by Philip Levine (from What Work Is)
  • Poem with a Dead Tree by C.D. Wright (from Shallcross)
  • Sometimes by Ann Tweedy (from literary journal Al-Khemia Poetica)
  • Five Minutes by Dunya Mikhail (from The War Works Hard, translated by Elizabeth Winslow)
  • From a Tin Box by m.l. smoker (from Another Attempt at Rescue)
Poems read:

  • Ghosts by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)
  • Deliverance by Jericho Brown (from his book The Tradition)
  • The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail (from her book The War Works Hard, trans. by Elizabeth Winslow)
  • Between Two Wars by Dunya Mikhail (from her book The War Works Hard, trans. by Elizabeth Winslow)
  • Diehards by Ray McManus (from Poetry, Volume 218, No. 3)
  • Drawl and Hum by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from Poetry, Volune 218, No.3)
  • Poem from Pearl’s House by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
Poems read:
  • Consorting with Angels by Anne Sexton (from Live or Die)
  • Swimming by Polly Buckingham (from The River People)
  • Paen for the Body by Ann Tweedy (from The Body’s Alphabet)
  • She Dreams of Being an Artist by Maya Jewell Zeller (from Rust Fish)
  • Sparrow’s Sleep by m.l. smoker (from Another Attempt at Rescue)
  • Metaphors of Mass Destruction by Brooke Matson (from In Accelerated Silence)
  • After the Hysterectomy by Laura Read (from Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral)
Poems read:

  • The Gift by Mary Oliver
  • Bags of Bones by Dunya Mikhail (translated by Sadek Mohammed)
  • Tablets VI by Dunya Mikhail
  • In Time of War by Carolyn Forché 
Poems read:
  • Giving Thanks by Angela Jackson (2020)
  • The Valiant by Brigit Peegan Kelly (1984)
  • Black Swan by Brigit Peegan Kelly (2004)
  • Along with Youth by Ernest Hemingway 
  • Chicago by Carl Sandburg (1914)
  • Grass by Carl Sandburg (1918)

Poems read:
  • Upper Broadway by Adrienne Rich
  • The Jars by George MacKay Brown
  • The Kookaburras by Mary Oliver 
  • We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
  • XII. by Wendell Berry (from Sabbath Poems 2015)

Poems read:
  • In the Box by Linda L. Beeman (from Wallace, Idaho)
  • I-90 by Linda L. Beeman (from Wallace, Idaho)
  • After Another Country by Jericho Brown (from The Tradition)
  • The Water Lilies by Jericho Brown (from The Tradition)
  • Dream by Mathias Svalina (from Poetry, Vol 219, Number 6)
Poems read:
  • 126 by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Clarence Brown and W.S. Merwin
  • Domination of Black by Wallace Stevens
  • The Munich Mannequins by Sylvia Plath 
Poems read:

  • The Spindle by Hashem Shafeeq, trans. by Sadek Mohammed
  • The Needle by Hashem Shafeeq, trans. by Sadek Mohammed
  • When he exploded by Salam Dawai, trans. by Soheil Najm
  • The Porch Over the River by Wendell Berry
  • As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face by Ilya Kaminsky 
  • Your last day by Laura Kasischke
  • The Arm by Martin Espada
  • Poem in a Trance by c.d. wright
Poems read:
  • Wallace, Idaho by Linda L. Beeman
  • The Mission by Linda L. Beeman
  • Manifest by Cynthia Dewi Oka
  • This Online Shopping Habit is Sympathetic Magick by Caroline Crew
  • VIZ by Julia Drescher

Poems read:
  • January Reprieve by Linda Beeman
  • Landlocked by Stacy Boe Miller
  • Anne by CMarie Fuhrman
  • What Beauty Does by Patricia Spears Jones
Poems read:

  • Time Capsule by Porscha Olayiwola
  • Argument by Daniel Halpern
  • Somewhere in California by Rumsha Sajid
  • Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte
  • Amorous Friendship by Belle Randall
  • New Friend by Sandra McPherson
  • Friends by John Ciardi 

Poems read:

  • Foraging for Wood on the Mountain by Jack Gilbert
  • In Umbria by Jack Gilbert
  • Obsession by Baudelaire 
  • The Laments of an Icarus by Baudelaire 
  • The Water Lilies by Jericho Brown 
  • Stake by Jericho Brown
  • it won’t be a bullet by Danez Smith
  • last summer of innocence by Danez Smith
  • Sunflowers by James Hoch

Poems read:

  • The Cracked Bell by Baudelaire
  • Black Coat by Ted Hughes
  • XV. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath poems)
  • Ritual by Jon Pineda
  • Even Though I Love You More Than Anything, That Won’t Stop Them from Killing You by William Evans
  • I Am Offering This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Poems read:
  • The Old Elm Tree by the River by Wendell Berry
  • The Heart of a Woman by Lateef Helmet (translated by Soheil Najm) 
  • Bags of Bones by Dunya Mikhail (translated by Sadek Mohammed) 
  • Personal History by Kareem Tayyar 
  • Dream Journal by Kareem Tayyar 
  • The Lamppost Glows Orange in the Daytime by Hannah Srajer
Poems read:
  • About the Bees by Justin Phillip Reed
  • Debris of Life and Mind by Wallace Stevens
  • Cattails by Melissa Kwansy
  • Tradition by Lorine Niedecker
  • Sea-Ports by Baudelaire
  • An As-Though Prayer by Christopher Howell
Poems read:
  • The Decision by Jane Hirshfield
  • Tree by Jane Hirshfield
  • Inventions Toward Pleasure by Cameron McGill
  • 44.6336• N, 86.2345• W by Cameron Read McGill
  • Early March, 2015 by Ann Tweedy
  • Air Time by Ann Tweedy
  • Poem for My Neighbor Whose Good Intentions Are Wolf Pelt by Jacqueline Allen Trimble
  • The Language of Joy by Jacqueline Allen Trimble
  • The Heron by Wendell Berry

2021

Poems read:
  • 15. by Wendell Berry (from the longer poem VIII. A Small Porch in the Woods)
  • Training by Diannely Antigua
  • Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke
  • Stranger by Night by Edward Hirsch
  • “I Am the Size of What I See” by Paul Hoover
  • Lilies by Mary Oliver
  • Awake at Night by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • Snowball by Shel Silverstein 
  • Little Jack Horner
  • Foot Repair by Shel Silverstein 
  • Snow on the fields by Christine Rossetti
  • Like Snow by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • Winter by Billy Collins
  • Winter by Marie Ponsot
  • Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost
  • Foxes in Winter by Mary Oliver
  • The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • Halfway by Daniel Halpern
  • Poem of a Houseboat Stranded in a Field by C.D. Wright
  • House Warming by Tina Mozelle Braziel
  • Winter Night Poem for Mary by Wendell Berry 
  • Intersection—Falcon Heights, Minnesota by Ann Tweedy
Poems read: 
  • Mama Said Nothing Good by Tina Mozelle Braziel 
  • Trailer Fish by Tina Mozelle Braziel
  • Fiddler’s Song by George Mackay Brown
  • Song of the Stone by George Mackay Brown
  • Playing House by Jack Gilbert
  • My Whole Life I Was Trained to Deny Myself by Eugenia Leigh
Poems read:
  • November by Alice Finnegan
  • November by Billy Collins
  • November by Maggie Dietz
  • November by Jane Shore
  • November Leaves by Jack Turner
Poems read:
  • a few remaining trees by Ann Tweedy
  • Swimming by Polly Buckingham
  • On Orchids by Anne Carson
  • Sowing by Audre Lorde
  • Immortality by Ai
  • Poem with a Dozen Cherries on a Ledge by C.D. Wright
Poems read:
  • Upper Broadway by Adrienne Rich
  • From Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein (A Red Stamp, A Box, A Plate, A Seltzer Bottle, A Long Dress, A Red Hat, A Blue Coat
  • Aubade with Sage and Lemon by Tarfia Faizullah
  • 100 Bells by Tarfia Faizullah
  • Passage by Carolyn Forché
  • Light of Sleep by Carolyn Forché
Poems read:
  • A Rhyme for Halloween by Maurice Kilwein Guevara
  • All Hallows by Louise Glück
  • Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Poems read:
  • How to Corner the Market on Horse Cadavers by Lindsay Sletten
  • Parthenogenesis by Stevie Edwards
  • Conversation by Ai
  • Three Green Windows by Anne Sexton
  • Somewhere in California by Rumsha Sajid
  • Call It Instinct by m.l. smoker
  • Sonnet in the Higgs Field by Brooke Matson
  • Fine by Kim Addonizio
  • Prayer by Kaveh Akbar

Poems read:

  • Love Town by Anne Carson
  • Alone by Jack Gilbert
  • Stay Home by Wendell Berry
  • 36-40 from Bluets by Maggie Nelson
  • 52 and 57 by Sappho, translated by Anne Carson
  • Poem with a Girl Almost Fifteen by C.D. Wright
  • That Purple Were the Color of Our Skin by Maya Jewell Zeller
  • The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

Poems read:
  • 15. from XIII. A Small Porch in the Woods by Wendell Berry 
  • Walking in Paris by Anne Sexton
  • B.F.F. by Hieu Minh Nguyen
  • Grief Runs Untamed by Agnieszka Tworek
Poems read:

  • Song of Change by Daniel Halpern
  • Relative Pitch by Jack Gilbert
  • 1953 by Jack Gilbert
  • Outside my Window by Polly Buckingham 
  • Poem with a Dead Tree by C.D. Wright
  • My Imminent Demise Makes the Headlines the Same Day I Notice How Even Your Front Teeth Are by Momtaza Mehri
  • Sonnet: Hamnavoe Market by George Mackay Brown
  • Raggedy Man by James Whitcomb Riley 
Poems read:
  • Song of Change by Daniel Halpern
  • Relative Pitch by Jack Gilbert
  • 1953 by Jack Gilbert
  • Outside my Window by Polly Buckingham 
  • Poem with a Dead Tree by C.D. Wright
  • My Imminent Demise Makes the Headlines the Same Day I Notice How Even Your Front Teeth Are by Momtaza Mehri
  • Sonnet: Hamnavoe Market by George Mackay Brown
  • Raggedy Man by James Whitcomb Riley 

Poems read:
  • September by Tracy K. Smith
  • The Record by Wendell Berry
  • We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
  • Beachcomber by George Mackay Brown
  • Roads by George Mackay Brown
  • Hello, This Letter Was Never Finished by beyza ozer
  • If They Come for Us by Fatima Ashgar
  • Some Boys Aren’t Born They Bubble by Kaveh Akbar
  • Rimrock by Kaveh Akbar

Poems Read:
  • Toast to My Dead Parents by Robert Cording
  • Centrifugal Force by Brooke Matson
  • Collapsing Poem by Kim Addonizio
  • Sister by Susan Bright
  • The Adirondack Chair by Molly Saty

Poems read:
  • Wild Geese by Wendell Berry
  • September by Polly Buckingham
  • Coffee by Daniel Halpern
  • Diehards by Ray McManus
  • Haunted Importantly by Jack Gilbert  
  • Going There by Jack Gilbert
  • The Tramp by George Mackay Brown
  • The Old Women by George Mackay Brown
  • The Thought of Something Else by Wendell Berry

Poems read:
  • August by Mary Oliver
  • Turkeys in the Snow by Jory Mickelson
  • Snake by D.H. Lawrence
  • Burial by Yuxi Lin

Dedicated to Kathy and Bob
Poems read:
  • The innerworkings by Laura Kasishke
  • View from the Glass Door by Laura Kasishke
  • Mythos by Cameron Read McGill
  • 44.633.6 degrees N, 86.2345 degrees W by Cameron McGill
  • Flight by Laura Read
  • Merge by Laura Read
  • Married by Jack Gilbert
  • Highlights and Interstices by Jack Gilbert
  • The Deer by Mary Oliver
  • Poem for J. by Wendell Berry
  • I. by Wendell Berry (one of his Sabbath poems)
Guest: Henry Valentine
Poems read: 
  • Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
  • Skin Stealer by Shel Silverstein
  • Goosey, Goosey Gander
  • Minnie, Mattie, and Mae by Christine Rossetti
  • Johnny Drew a Monster by Lilian Moore
  • Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
  • There Was an Old Woman by Charles Causley
  • The Jumblies by Edward Lear

Dedicated to Ann Tweedy and her cat William
Poems read:
  • The cat's song by Marge Piercy
  • Cat Moving Kittens by Austin Smith
  • My Cat Jack by Hunt Hawkins
  • The Cat and the Fiddle by Mary Swander
  • Ceremony by Robert Pinsky
  • Cat, Failing by Robin Robertson
  • No Children, No Pets by Sue Ellen Thompson
  • More Blues and the Abstract Truth by C.D. Wright
  • Moonlight Monologue for the New Kitten by Peter Kantor, trans. by Michael Blumenthal
  • Venus by D. Nurske
Poems read:
  • The Envoy by Jane Hirshfield
  • For What Binds Us by Jane Hirshfield
  • The Way We Said Goodbye by Mark Vinz
  • A Bird, came down the Walk by Emily Dickinson
  • [i carry your heart with me (i carry it in)] by e.e. cummings
  • Unmediated experience by Bob Hicok
  • Haiku for an ailing father by Basho
  • Hon, or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget by Anis Mojgani
Poems read:

  • Steel Guitars by Jack Gilbert
  • Ghosts by Jack Gilbert
  • Heat Wave by Lee Young-ju (trans. by Jae Kim)
  • The Singing Pills by Hadara Bar-Nadav
  • Forgotten Portraits by Janine Solursh
  • Let Me Tell You About the Snakes by Ann Tweedy

Poems read:
  • The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1832)
  • The Lady of Shallott by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1833)
Poems read:

  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
  • Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright
Poems read:
  • I. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poem)
  • Drawl and Hum by Tina Mozelle Braziel
  • When You're Brown with a Hand-Me-Down Bike by Inam Kang
  • A Woman Dead in her Forties by Adrienne Rich
  • XIII. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poem)
Poems read:
  • Ripening by Wendell Berry
  • Ephemeral Pool by Tina Mozelle Braziel
  • Dandelion by Tina Mozelle Braziel
  • First Memory by Louise Gluck
  • Father's Old Blue Cardigan by Anne Carson
  • Haiku for an Ailing Father by Basho
  • The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
  • XVI. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath poems, 2015)
Poems read:
  • Standing Ground by Wendell Berry
  • The Index by Rena Priest
  • Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget by Anis Mojgani
  • Central Park by Catherine Barnett
  • Harm's Way by A.E. Stallings
  • Throwing Away the Mail by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • Little Houses by Athena Nassar
  • Ritual by Jon Pineda
  • Three Green Windows by Ann Sexton
  • Apostle Town by Anne Carson

May 23

Poems read:
Poems read:
  • XXI. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poem)
  • Keyfood by Audre Lorde
  • Water by Porsha Olayiwola (listen to full poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LPCoHERA3g)
  • Duty by Natasha Trethewey
  • The Decision by Jane Hirshfield
  • Note by Maya Jewell Zeller
  • Tree by Jane Hirshfield
  • Like a Cat by Laura Cronk
  • XXII. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poem)
Poems read:
  • The Fear of Darkness by Wendell Berry
  • Winter Again by m.l. smoker
  • Cecilia by Laura Read
  • After the Hysterectomy by Laura Read
  • Wasps by Laura Kasischke
  • Space, In Chains by Laura Kasischke
  • At the Public Pool by Laura Kasischke
  • Vigil by Susan Bright
  • Sister by Susan Bright
  • Rim by Susan Bright
  • A Silent Chat with Our Old Cat by Molly Saty
  • The Piano Tuner by Molly Saty
  • XIX. by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer by Wendell Berry
  • Charlotte by H.R. Webster
  • Guards at the Taj by Casey Thayer
  • When's My Luck Going to Change? by Rob Carney
  • Neurosurgery Sonata by Brooke Matson
  • Meeting the Light Completely by Jane Hirshfield
  • The Farmer and the Sea by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • IV. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems 2014)
  • We May No Longer Consider the End by Ruth Ellen Kocher
  • Good Times by Lucille Clifton
  • Power by Audre Lorde
  • A More Delicate River by Ann Tweedy
  • V. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems 2014)

Poems read:
  • II. by Wendell Berry (from Sabbath Poems 2015)
  • The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water by Mary Oliver
  • Unmeditated Experience by Bob Hicok
  • Walking with Jackie, Sitting with a Dog by Gary Soto
  • A Dog has Died by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alfred Yankauer
  • The Way We Said Goodbye by Mark Vinz
  • VIII. by Wendell Berry (from Sabbath Poems 2015)
Poems read:
  • IX. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems)
  • In April by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • April by Alicia Ostriker
  • I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party by Chen Chen
  • Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
  • XII. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems)
Poems read:
  • Travelling at Home by Wendell Berry
  • Sam by Ted Hughes
  • Shooting Wild by Natasha Trethewey
  • One Hundred and Eighty by Arielle Greenberg
  • La Terre Smelled of Fish by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Listen by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • March Snow by Wendell Berry
  • On a Palm by James Matthew Wilson
  • An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
  • My Bed Shakes & I Assume the Ghosts Are Finally Getting Me by Su Cho
  • Loop (in dirt and gold)by Hadara Bar-Nadav
  • The Singing Pills by Hadara Bar-Nadav
  • Girl by Lane Falcon
  • Night Strains by Ann Tweedy
  • The Finches by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • Another Descent by Wendell Berry
  • Spring by Mary Oliver
  • A Bird, came down the Walk by Emily Dickinson
  • anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
  • Quarantine by Eaven Boland
  • Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
  • Fall by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • In a Country Once Forested by Wendell Berry
  • American Dreams by Julia Alvarez
  • The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine
  • Little Owl who Lives in the Orchard by Mary Oliver
  • As if Darkness Can Mend it All by Maya Jewell Zeller
  • The Plan by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • A Meeting by Wendell Berry
  • The Sun by Anne Sexton
  • America Will Be by Joshua Bennett
  • Six Obits by Victoria Chang
  • Primal Scream by Ann Tweedy
  • Come Forth by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • Anger Against Beasts by Wendell Berry
  • Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman by Sonia Sanchez
  • Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen by Dante Di Stefano
  • Sherpa Song by David Barber
  • The Arrival by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • They by Wendell Berry
  • Argument by Daniel Halpern
  • II (from 24 Love Poems) by Adrienne Rich
  • fracture by Ann Tweedy
  • Early Kitchen by Ann Tweedy
  • Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Romance Sonambulo by Lorca
  • To You by Walt Whitman
  • Why by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • Winter Nightfall by Wendell Berry
  • The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss
  • Afterimages by Audre Lord
  • The Tuft of Flowers by Robert Frost
  • First a light, then-- by Ann Tweedy
  • Awake at Night by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • The Blue Robe by Wendell Berry
  • fungus by Ann Tweedy
  • Michiko Dead by Jack Gilbert
  • Ghosts by Jack Gilbert
  • Winter (excerpts) by Chris La Tray
  • On Orchids by Anne Carson
  • Winter Again by m.l. smoker
  • Why by Wendell Berry
Poems from today's session:
  • To My Children, Fearing for Them by Wendell Berry
  • Trying to Have Something Left Over by Jack Gilbert
  • Venom by m.l. smoker
  • Elegy by Lena Tuffaha
  • Inaugural by Jericho Brown
  • Inauguration Poem by Amanda Gorman

Poems read:

  • Awake at Night by Wendell Berry
  • How to Triumph like a Girl by Ada Limon
  • Ode to Dalya's Bald Spot by Angel Nafis
  • Ars Poetica for the Future by Erin Belieu
  • Peace Walk by William E. Stafford
  • Movement Song by Audre Lorde
  • Making Peace by Denise Levertov
  • Winter Night Poem for Mary by Wendell Berry

Poems read:

  • [once the moment came it was too late to go back to the moment before] by kathryn l. pringle
  • A Story about the Body by Robert Hass
  • A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
  • A Few Minutes at the Beach by Ann Tweedy
  • dream where every black person is standing by the ocean by danez smith
  • Song of Change by Daniel Halpern
  • On the Hill Late at Night by Wendell Berry

Poems read:
  • Lies Lies Lies by m.l. smoker
  • Finding Something by Jack Gilbert
  • Milk by Kaveh Akbar
  • Sylvia's Death by Ann Sexton
  • Progress by Walter Moore
  • She Dreams of Being an Artist by Maya Jewell Zeller
  • We are Not Dead by Munthir Abdul-Hur, translated by Sadek Mohammed
  • Power by Adrienne Rich

2020

December 27

Poems read:
  • The Fear of Darkness by Wendell Berry
  • There is a force that breaks the body by Diane Seuss
  • Argument by Daniel Halpern
  • Duplex by Jericho Brown
  • March Snow by Wendell Berry

Poems read:

  • The Cold Pane by Wendell Barry
  • Lilies by Mary Oliver
  • Vaccine by William Evans
  • Guilty by Jack Gilbert
  • Bluets (an excerpt) by Maggie Nelson
  • From the River's Edge by m.l. smoker
  • Fruit by Ann Tweedy
  • A Meeting by Wendell Berry
Poems read:
  • Morning by Billy Collins
  • I Am Offering This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Bac
  • Love Poem by Louise Gluck
  • Blues for the Death of the Sun by Ansel Elkins
  • The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert
Poets read:
Wendell Berry, from his book A Small Porch; Kim Addonizio from her book Tell Me; Polly Buckingham from The River People; Adrienne Rich from The Dream of a Common Language; Marge Piercy from The Moon is Always Female; James D'Agostino from Slur Oeuvre

Poems by Ann Tweedy, Polly Buckingham, Joy Harjo, Anne Carson, Laura Kasischke, and Claudia Rankine
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