Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 16, 2025)

 Friends! Several months have passed since our last session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee. My dear friend Tim asked me the other day if I was done doing it, as he would stop checking if that were the case. That's when I realized that I had entered a lapse of silence that I didn't want to signal an end to our poetry gatherings. 

So, thanks to Tim for lighting the candle and holding it close to my elbow. And thanks to you, listeners, for checking back in and finding me again. That is often the way of life, isn't it? Welcome to all of us. I hope that you find something in today's poems to take with you in the coming days. 

Cheers, 

Erin

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)

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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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🠊 More Wake to Words 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 (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

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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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🠊 More Wake to Words 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 (April 14, 2024)

 So glad to be back! And with these poems. Enjoy!

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

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 18, 2024)

 Thanks for checking in to see whether a new installment of poems is ready. It is! Hope you've found good poems by other people during the past few Sundays that we missed.

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)

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🠊 More Wake to Words 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 (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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🠊 More Wake to Words 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 (January 14, 2024)

Welcome back to this week's installment of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee--our perfect excuse to gather and drink coffee while I read good poems by other people. 

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)

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🠊 More Wake to Words 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 (November 26, 2023)

Next week will bring us into December, and so I guess this is the last of our November poems for the year. 

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)

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🠊 More Wake to Words 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 (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

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 25, 2023)

 We've reached the last Sunday in June. I hope you enjoy these poems.

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)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 26, 2022)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee!

Poems read:

• Flee on Your Donkey by Anne Sexton
• For Strong Women by Marge Piercy

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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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🠊 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 1, 2022)

Every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. 

Thanks for listening.

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)

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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 (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 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 17, 2022)

 Here's today's session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, wherein every Sunday I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee.

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)

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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 (March 6, 2022)

Every Sunday, good poems by other people. You bring the coffee.

 

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 

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 27, 2022)

Every Sunday.

Good poems by other people.

Coffee.

 

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 

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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 (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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A Visit from St. Nicholas, read aloud by Erin Pringle

In which I read Night Before Christmas for no particular reason except that I enjoy the poem, it's Christmas Eve, and I like to read aloud. 

Happy Christmas!