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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🠊 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 (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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🠊 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 (July 24, 2022)

It's Sunday again and time for another good session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, which is a casual weekly meeting wherein I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Happy Birthday to my mother a few days ago! 

Poems read:

• The Tempest by Roberto Carlos Garcia (from LatiNEXT: BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 4)
• Dried Flowers by Daniel Mosaenko (from Poetry, January 2022)
• Fisherman’s Son by Chris La Tray (from his book One-Sentence Journal)
• Rental Property by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry of Survival)
• In one battle by Imamu Amiri Baraka (from The Black Poets, edited by Dudley Randall)
• Sad Math by Mike Owens (from Best American Poetry 2018)
• Silver Spoon Ode by Sharon Olds (from Best American Poetry 2018)

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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 (July 17, 2022)

Every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. This week we celebrate the naming of the new United States Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Thanks for listening. If you have a poem or a poet whose work you'd like to hear, message me at erintpringle[at]gmail.com, and I'll add it to next week's lineup. Cheers!

Poems read:

• Portrait and Shadow by Andrés Cerpa (LatiNEXT: Break Beat Poets, Vol. 4)
• For the Record by Naomi Ayala (LatiNEXT: Break Beat Poets, Vol. 4)
• Beneath the Trailer by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
• No Cause for Prediction by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
• What It Looks Like to Us and the Words We Use by Ada Limón (Poetry Foundation)
• Late Summer After a Panic Attack by Ada Limón (Poetry Foundation)

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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 (July 10, 2022)

We have reached into July, it looks like. Welcome to today's session of poetry. Every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Thanks for joining me.

Poems read:

• Swimming Lessons by Daniel Halpern (from his book Foreign Neon)
• Nights & Days by Adrienne Rich (from her book The Dream of a Common Language)
• Forward & Reverse by m.l. smoker (from her book Another Attempt at Rescue)
• Hash Marks by Nikky Finney (from her book Head Off & Split)
• Elegy by Lena Tuffaha (from the anthology Halal if You Hear Me, the Break Beat Poets Vol. 3)
• II. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems 2014, from his book A Small Porch)

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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 (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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🠊 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 (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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🠊 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 (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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🠊 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 (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

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

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