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 (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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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 (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 (3/24/24)

It has been a hot minute since we last met up for good words by other people, but I'm glad that you've checked back to see if a new edition might be up. It is! It's a rainy day in my part of the world, and we are slogging toward April, but it's officially Spring, so that's a new word to think about being inside.

Poems:

• "Whatever Gets The Hay Down to the Ponies" by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Out Takes/Glove Box)
• The Riveter by Ada Limón (from her book Bright Dead Things)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 3, 2024)

Poems:

• Sweethearts by C.L. O'Dell (from Poetry, March 2024 issue)
• Stunt Double by Tomás Q. Morín (from Poetry, March 2024 issue)

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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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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (12/31/23)

 Welcome to the last Sunday and day of the year. Let's share poetry.

Poems:

• The Pawnbroker by Maxine Kumin (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)
• The Wild Geese by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (December 10, 2023)

We are two Sundays into December, and I think finally on a streak of poetry without dropping a Sunday. Thanks for joining me again for good poems by other people.

 

Poems:

• The Blackboard by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• This Compost by Walt Whitman (from Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by James E. Miller, Jr.)

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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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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (November 19, 2023)

Please excuse the background hum during the recording; my usual computer is broken and my desktop refuses to record quietly or with any manners whatsoever.

I'll have a special Thanksgiving Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, so check back for more poems this coming Thursday.

 

Poems:

• November by Maggie Dietz
• Winter by Marie Ponsot
• November by Billy Collins

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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 (October 22, 2023)

On Sundays I read good poems by other people. Here are today's.

 

Poems:

• Storm King by Linda L. Beeman (from her book Wallace, Idaho)
• Excerpts from Chris La Tray's book One Sentence Journal
• How to Corner the Market on Horse Cadavers by Lindsay Sletten (from Poetry/October 2021)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 15, 2023)

 Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 15, 2023)

Poems:

• The Bird her punctual music brings by Emily Dickinson (from Final Harvest, edited by Thomas H. Johnson)
• Self in 1958 by Anne Sexton (from The Complete Poems)
• Witchgrass by Louise Glück
• Celestial Music by Louise Glück (from The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997, edited by Harold Bloom/series editor David Lehman)

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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 (9/24/23)

 

Today I'm reading Anne Sexton's poem "The Maiden Without Hands" from her collection Transformations.

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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 (8/27/23)

 

Poems:

• What is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People by Ariel Yelen (from Poetry/March 2022)
• Contentment by Rüştü Onur, trans by Hüseyin Alhas and Ulaş Özgün (from Poetry/March 2022)
• A Great Nowhere by Öykü Tekten (from Poetry/April 2022)
• Tablets VI by Dunya Mikhail (from Poetry/April 2022)

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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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