Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 3, 2022)

A new month, a new session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee. Cheers!

 

• I Was in a Hurry by Dunya Mikhail (from her book The War Works Hard, trans. by Elizabeth Winslow)
• Poem in a Trance by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
• Poem with a Missing Pilot by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
• Everything Natalie by Arielle Greenberg (from her book My Kafka Century)
• There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women by Audre Lorde

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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 21, 2022)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, a weekly reading of good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. This week's came out a bit later because Father's Day hurt my feelings this year more than other years. Not sure why since Dad rowed across with the Ferryman over twenty years ago. Ah, well. Here's the episode:

 

Poems read:

• The Want of Peace by Wendell Berry
• The Plan by Wendell Berry
• Foraging for Wood on the Mountain by Jack Gilbert 
• A Ghost Sings, A Door Opens by Jack Gilbert

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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 (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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🠊 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 (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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🠊 Catch the live show on Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

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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🠊 Catch the live show on Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

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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🠊 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 (May 8, 2022)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee

Mother's Day Edition

Poem read:

"Mothers" composed by my preschool and kindergarten students

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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

🠊 Catch the live show on Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle