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 (11/5/23)

Hi Friends! It has been a hot minute, it feels like, since we gathered for poetry. Here is the most recent reading. Please note that my usual computer is sick, so I'm using my desktop to record; it has a hum that would drive a sloth berserk, eventually (I imagine sloths as very peaceful, high-tolerance creatures). So, I apologize for that sound. I hope you're all well. There will be poetry this Sunday. 

Poems, both by Anne Carson and from her book Plainwater:

• On The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deyman 
• On Orchids

Note: The first poem is a response to this Rembrandt painting that bears the title within the poem.

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (August 20, 2023)

 

Today's poems are both by Tony Hoagland from his book Donkey Gospel.

• Hearing Aid as Memory
• Arrows

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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 (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 (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 (5/14/2023)

Another Sunday and more good poems. Enjoy!

 

• The Rival by Sylvia Plath (from her book Ariel)
• Malines by Paul Verlaine (from his book Songs without Words, trans. Donald Revell)
• Turtle by Robert Lowell (from his Collected Poems)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 30, 2023)

 I'd love to read a few good poems by other people to you. Here:

Poems:

• As if Darkness Can Mend It All by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Rust Fish)
• Once Later by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• The River People by Polly Buckingham (from her book The River People)
• Place Setting by Ann Tweedy (in Lavender Review 2012)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 9, 2023)

Welcome to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee. It's Spring, Easter, and a useful time to dig up all the spring poems that poets plant in most every book.  

Poems:

• Spring by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)
• Skunk Cabbage by Rennie McQuilkin (found in the book Nature for the Very Young: A Handbook of Indoor & Outdoor Activities)
• For the Future by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
• From Time to Time by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (December 18, 2022)

Welcome back to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee! It has been a hot minute since our last session, and I'm glad we're back together. All is well on my side of the world; we've simply been busier than busy. I hope all is well in your world--or as well as it can be. To make my return to our routine a bit easier, today's reading consists of poems all published in Poetry, one of the popular literary magazines. 

If you're new, welcome! What we do here: Most every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. 

 

Poems read:

• Training by Diannely Antigua (from Poetry/December 2021)
• Dried Flowers by Daniel Moysaenko (from Poetry/January 2022)
• Definitive by Melissa Sauma, translated by Janet McAdams (from Poetry/March 2022)
• Dogs' Wedding by Zêdan Xelef (from Poetry/April 2022)

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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 (October 30, 2022)

Most every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Here are some good ones by wonderful women writers.

 

Poems read:

• Early Kitchen by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry of Survival)
• The Cast Off by Marge Piercy (from her book The Moon is Always Female)
• Newton’s Apple by Brooke Matson (from her book In Accelerated Silence)
• As if Darkness Can Mend All by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Rust Fish)

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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 (August 7, 2022)

I missed all of you last Sunday! All is well, and here we are in August already. Welcome back (or for the first time) to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, a weekly gathering in the virtual world wherein I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. And some of us may brush our hair for the occasion, but clearly I am not of that party.

Poems read:

• In the Reunion of All My Selves by Aline Mello (from LatiNEXT: The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4)
• We May No Longer Consider the End by Ruth Ellen Kocher (from The Best American Poetry, 2019)
• Riddle by Laura Kasischke (from Space, in Chains)
• My Brother is Asking for Stamps by Michael Torres (from Poetry, Feb. 2021)
• Look at What I’ve Done! by Porsha Olayiwola (from her book I Shimmer Sometimes, Too)
• from Sand Creek by Simon J. Ortiz 

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 5, 2022)

June has happened. Here we are, and here's the first-of-the-month Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee. (If this is your first time coming, what we do here is drink coffee while I read good poems by other people.) 

Poems read:

• Study Nature by Gertrude Stein
• Sequestrienne by Dorothea Tanning
• encrypted bug/first attempt in learning by Jane Shi (which appears in the journal Plenitude)
• Sheltered Garden by H.D.
• How to Dismantle a Gun by Marisa Adame (which appears in the journal Glass)
• Moth by Margaree Little (which appears in a recent issue of Gertrude)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (May 29, 2022)

Welcome back to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, a Sunday series in which I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee.

 

Poems read:

• I, This Body by Ilya Kaminsky (from Deaf Republic)
• The Owls by Baudelaire (from Selected Poems, translated by Joanna Richardson)
• Mother-Right by Adrienne Rich (from The Dream of a Common Language)
• Sabbath Poem ll. from Sabbaths 2015, Section ll. by Wendell Berry (from A Small Porch)
• Griefs for Dead Soldiers by Ted Hughes (from The Hawk in the Rain)
• The Gift by Mary Oliver (from House of Light)
• Three Green Windows by Anne Sexton (from Live or Die)

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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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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (May 15, 2022)

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

Thanks for listening. 

Poems read:

• The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine (from Best American Poetry 2018)
• Love Letter from Inside Fatherhood by Fritz Ward (from Poetry, September 2021)
• The Old Elm Tree by the River by Wendell Berry (from The Peace of Wild Things)
• I'm a Bad Engineer by Chidozie George Emesowum (from Poetry, March 2022)
• a note on the body by Danez Smith (from Don't Call Us Dead)

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

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee is your weekly dose of caffeine and good poems by other people. Drink up!

 

Poems read:

• January Reprieve by Linda Beeman
• Landlocked by Stacy Boe Miller
• Anne by CMarie Fuhrman
• What Beauty Does by Patricia Spears Jones

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (9/5/21)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (9/5/21)

Poems Read:

• Toast to My Dead Parents by Robert Cording
• Centrifugal Force by Brooke Matson
• Collapsing Poem by Kim Addonizio
• Sister by Susan Bright
• The Adirondack Chair by Molly Saty

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