Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (Thanksgiving 2024)

 Today is the fourth anniversary of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, which began during the pandemic when many people were not gathering for the holiday in order to preserve the health of others. Thanks to everyone who has continued to listen and who has checked in to hear today's selections. 

Cheers! 

Erin

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)

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

🠊 Poetry sessions appear most every Sunday morning at https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 2, 2024)

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)

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

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

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

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

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 18, 2023)

 Poems!

This Sunday's poems:

• 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)

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🠊 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 (May 7, 2023)

 We've returned to May, or it to us. Thanks for joining me for another session of 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) 

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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 Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (November 13, 2022)

Good poems by other people, read aloud by me, over coffee with you. Today, I'm reading two poems by each of three poets.

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

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (September 4, 2022)

Hello September! Hello, you! We begin a new month of Sundays and good poems by other people. Cheers!

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)

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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 17, 2022)

Every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. This week we celebrate the naming of the new United States Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Thanks for listening. If you have a poem or a poet whose work you'd like to hear, message me at erintpringle[at]gmail.com, and I'll add it to next week's lineup. Cheers!

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 (Poetry Foundation)
• Late Summer After a Panic Attack by Ada Limón (Poetry Foundation)

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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 (May 22, 2022)

Here's this week's session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, wherein I read good poems by other people while we drink coffee. Enjoy! 

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)

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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 (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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🠊 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 

Book Your Stocking with Erin Pringle

Book Your Stocking 2021

Book Your Stocking: Day 12

Welcome back to Book Your Stocking, where every day until Christmas, avid readers recommend the book, story, song, or word-something that you and your friends would love to find in your stocking or sock drawer.

Today, I'm recommending a book because I missed a day in the series and it would seem odd to have nothing happen for Day 12, even though it's Day 13 when I'm writing this (technicality, tho it may be).

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Recommendation: Known by Salt by Tina Mozelle Braziel

Why: Her poetry doesn't give a f*ck that it grew up in a trailer park and understands lakes, lipstick, and low-income living. I feel recognized when I read her work. Real, raw, and what poetry looks like when it's by the people for the people--impossibly gorgeous. 

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About today's reader: I write stories in all sizes and prefer to read poetry.

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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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 (June 27, 2021)

 Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee 6/27/21

The Sunday morning series in which I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Here's today's session!

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)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (6/20/21)

Welcome to today's poetry session. Hope you have your coffee ready.

 

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)