Sunday, April 25, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (4/25/21)

This is the last Sunday of National Poetry Month here in the United States. Here's to a final week of celebrating poetry. I hope you find a poet or poem and share it with a friend in the real or virtual world.



Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (4/25/21)
Poems read:
  • IV. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems 2014)
  • We May No Longer Consider the End by Ruth Ellen Kocher
  • Good Times by Lucille Clifton
  • Power by Audre Lorde
  • A More Delicate River by Ann Tweedy
  • V. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems 2014)

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 18, 2021)

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

  • 7ish AM (Pacific Time)
  • Sundays
  • https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle
Here's today's installment:

Poems read:
- II. by Wendell Berry (from Sabbath Poems 2015)
- The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water by Mary Oliver
- Unmeditated Experience by Bob Hicok
- Walking with Jackie, Sitting with a Dog by Gary Soto
- A Dog has Died by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alfred Yankauer
- The Way We Said Goodbye by Mark Vinz
-VIII. by Wendell Berry (from Sabbath Poems 2015)

Sunday, April 11, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 11, 2021)

 

Poems read:
- IX. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems)
- In April by Rainer Maria Rilke
- April by Alicia Ostriker
- I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party by Chen Chen
- Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- XII. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems)

Sunday, April 4, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 4, 2021)

 

Poems read:
- Travelling at Home by Wendell Berry
- Sam by Ted Hughes
- Shooting Wild by Natasha Trethewey
- One Hundred and Eighty by Arielle Greenberg
- La Terre Smelled of Fish by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Listen by Wendell Berry

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 28, 2021)

 

Poems read:
  • March Snow by Wendell Berry
  • On a Palm by James Matthew Wilson
  • An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
  • My Bed Shakes & I Assume the Ghosts Are Finally Getting Me by Su Cho
  • Loop (in dirt and gold)by Hadara Bar-Nadav
  • The Singing Pills by Hadara Bar-Nadav
  • Girl by Lane Falcon
  • Night Strains by Ann Tweedy
  • The Finches by Wendell Berry

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 21, 2021)

 

Poems read:
  • Another Descent by Wendell Berry
  • Spring by Mary Oliver
  • A Bird, came down the Walk by Emily Dickinson
  • anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
  • Quarantine by Eaven Boland
  • Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
  • Fall by Wendell Berry

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 7, 2021)

 

Poems read:
  • In a Country Once Forested by Wendell Berry
  • American Dreams by Julia Alvarez
  • The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine
  • Little Owl who Lives in the Orchard by Mary Oliver
  • As if Darkness Can Mend it All by Maya Jewell Zeller
  • The Plan by Wendell Berry

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 28, 2021)

 

Poems read:
  • A Meeting by Wendell Berry
  • The Sun by Anne Sexton
  • America Will Be by Joshua Bennett
  • Six Obits by Victoria Chang
  • Primal Scream by Ann Tweedy
  • Come Forth by Wendell Berry

Sunday, February 21, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 21, 2021)

 

Poems read:
  • Anger Against Beasts by Wendell Berry
  • Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman by Sonia Sanchez
  • Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen by Dante Di Stefano
  • Sherpa Song by David Barber
  • The Arrival by Wendell Berry

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 14, 2021)

 

Poems read:
  • They by Wendell Berry
  • Argument by Daniel Halpern
  • II (from 24 Love Poems) by Adrienne Rich
  • fracture by Ann Tweedy
  • Early Kitchen by Ann Tweedy
  • Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Romance Sonambulo by Lorca
  • To You by Walt Whitman
  • Why by Wendell Berry