Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (Monday Edition, July 10, 2023)

Over the weekend, my son and I spent our days in the Umatilla National Forest, which was fantastic for all the reasons one might imagine--trees, ground squirrels, wildflowers, stars, mountain streams--and the added bonus of no internet access. So, like a holiday delaying garbage pick-up by one day, this week's session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee arrives at your doorstep on a Monday rather than our usual Sunday. I hope it finds you there, regardless, and that you'll find one of these poems to have the right words for your current moment.

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (1/8/23)

We've reached another Sunday! Time for coffee and poetry.

 

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)

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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Catch the live show on Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 10, 2022)

We have reached into July, it looks like. Welcome to today's session of poetry. Every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Thanks for joining me.

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)

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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Catch the live show on Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 6, 2022)

Good poems by other people.

A weekly poetry reading.

Every Sunday.

Over coffee.

 

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 

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🠊 Listen to more poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Catch the live show on Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (December 5, 2021)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee is a weekly series in which I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Enjoy!

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

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🠊 Listen to more poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 3, 2021)

Last Sunday, we didn't have poetry because I was under the weather, or the weather was on top of me. Either way, I'm better, and so here's another Sunday morning of coffee and words. Thanks for checking back in and all the positive feedback. Have a lovely week!

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 3, 2021)

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 

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (August 29, 2021)

 

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

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 14, 2021)

 

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

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 10, 2021)

 

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

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (December 27, 2020)

Today's installment of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, in which I read good poems by other people while we all wake up over coffee. Enjoy!

 

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