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 (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 (2/25/24)

Poems:

• Ode to Tamoxifen by Ann Tweedy (from Plexus, Issue 11)
• Patient by Ann Tweedy (from Plexus, Issue 11)
• Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
• Appetite by Maxine Kumin (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)

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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 (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 (December 3, 2023)

 

Reading good poems by other people most Sundays.

Today: 

• He Writes by Kateryna Kalytko, trans. by Oksana Lutayshyna and Olena Jennings
• [Less than a day before the beginning of war] by Kateryna Kalytko, trans. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky 
• 1918 by Ostap Slyvynksy, trans. by Anton Tenser and Tatiana Filimonova

Poems collected in In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine, edited by Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky 

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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 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 (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 (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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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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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 11, 2023)

 

Poems:

• Poem Starved for Music 
• Poem with a Girl Almost Fifteen

Both by C.D. Wright from her book Shallcross

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

Here's this week's session of good poems by other people. Welcome to March!

Poems read: 

• Warrior by Lane Falcon (in MAYDAY Magazine, January 30, 2023)
• Morning by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• My Other Dark by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• Personal History by Kareem Tayyar (in Poetry, January 2022 219:4)
• Dream Journal by Kareem Tayyar (in Poetry, January 2022 219:4)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (November 20, 2022)

Hello, hello! Welcome to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee; most every Sunday I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. 

Poems read:

• Autumn Equinox by George Mackay Brown (from his book Carve the Ruins)
• Envoi by Charles Wright (from his book Black Zodiac)
• Travel Agency by Dunya Mikhail (from her book The War Works Hard, trans. by Elizabeth Winslow)
• IX. by Wendell Berry (“In the early morning we awaken” from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

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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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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee: August 28, 2022

It's the last Sunday of August, and so here's the last batch of poems for August 2022. Thanks for dropping by again or for the first time.

 

Poems read:

• Fifteen by William Stafford 
• A Room by Carolyn Forche (from her book In the Lateness of the World)
• The Unsaying by Ann Tweedy (from Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28)
• Double Mastectomy by Nikki Ummel (from Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28)
• Fellowship Application by Joseph Rios (from LatiNEXT: The Breakbeat Poets, Vol. 4)

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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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