Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (November 10, 2024)

It has been a hot minute since we met for coffee and poetry, but I'm glad we've found each other again. 

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (September 8, 2024)

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 28, 2024)

 

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 21, 2024)

Three poems for today's reading. Enjoy!

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 7, 2024)

 We have entered a new year, and here is our first reading within it. 

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee 9/10/23

 

Poems:

• To be of use by Marge Piercy (from Poetry Foundation)
• September, 1918 by Amy Lowell (from Poetry Foundation)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (5/28/23)

 

Today's poem:

Listen! by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 5, 2023)

 

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)

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

It's Sunday again and time for another good session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, which is a casual weekly meeting wherein I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Happy Birthday to my mother a few days ago! 

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)

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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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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 12, 2022)

I will read you poems from my home, 

I will read you poems from an airbnb, 

and now I read you poems from the car. 

Poems read:

• Between Walls by William Carlos Williams
• The Embankment by T.E. Hulme
• A Fixed Idea by Amy Lowell

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (11/7/21)

Welcome to November and a new Sunday of poems for your coffee-drinking pleasure. 

 

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