Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 14, 2024)

 

Poems:

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

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 8, 2023)

 

Poems by Jack Gilbert, from his Collected Poems

• A Stubborn Ode
• Scheming in the Snow

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 1, 2023)

 

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 16, 2023)

 

Poems:

• Waking at Night
• Cherishing What Isn’t 

(Both by Jack Gilbert from his Collected Poems)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 2, 2023)

 

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (May 21, 2023)

This week's poems are now ready! A special thanks to Lurch the cat for joining.

• 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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 22, 2023)

 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (1/22/23)

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (August 14, 2022)

It's mid-August and perhaps you're thinking of all that needs to be done in that last-summer, near-harvest, start-of-school sort of way. 

Glad you're here instead. Every Sunday, we drink coffee while I read good poems by other people. Enjoy!

 

Poems read:

• 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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 21, 2022)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, a weekly reading of good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. This week's came out a bit later because Father's Day hurt my feelings this year more than other years. Not sure why since Dad rowed across with the Ferryman over twenty years ago. Ah, well. Here's the episode:

 

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

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 24, 2022)

Welcome to the latest session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee.

How this works:

1. I read good poems by other people.

2. We all drink coffee (or not).

 

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 30, 2022)

 

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

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (11/28/21)

Welcome to this week's session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, where I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee.

 

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

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 17, 2021)

Every Sunday morning, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Here's the session for October 17, 2021.

 

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

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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 (August 15, 2021)

Today's reading is 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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 18, 2021)

 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 18, 2021)

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

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 31, 2021)

 

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

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 24, 2021)

 

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

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

 

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