Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 13, 2025)

 

Poems: 

• Poem of a Houseboat Stranded in a Field by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
• The Old Elm Tree by the River by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
• The Summer Day by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)

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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 (September 15, 2024)

 

Today's poems are by Rosabetty Muñoz, tr. by Claudia Nuñez de Ibieta (from Poetry, Oct. 2024/225:1) 

• Doña Sebastiana I
• Alao
• Tranqui

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (September 8, 2024)

Poems:

• Rental Property by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry for Survival)
• The Old Flame by Robert Lowell (from his book For the Union Dead)
• Supplanting by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 14, 2024)

 

Poems:

• Rumination by Phoebe Giannisi, tr. Brian Sweden (from Poetry, 224:4 July/August 2024)
• Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert (from Collected Poems)

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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 (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 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 (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 (5/28/23)

 

Today's poem:

Listen! by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (5/14/2023)

Another Sunday and more good poems. Enjoy!

 

• The Rival by Sylvia Plath (from her book Ariel)
• Malines by Paul Verlaine (from his book Songs without Words, trans. Donald Revell)
• Turtle by Robert Lowell (from his Collected Poems)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (May 7, 2023)

 We've returned to May, or it to us. Thanks for joining me for another session of poems. 

Poems:

• Coming Home from the Post Office by Philip Levine (from his book What Work Is)
• Claims by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
• Misery and Splendor by Robert Hass (from his book Human Wishes)
• Riddle by Laura Kasischke (from her book Space, in Chains) 

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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 (February 26, 2023)

We have reached the last Sunday of February, and while that makes calendar sense, the snow coming down outside my window makes less mental sense when the longing for Spring has taken to blooming in the hope muscle.

Here are this week's poems:

 

Poems read:

• Flight by Linda L. Beeman (from her book Wallace, Idaho)
• The Poet at Seven by Donald Justice (from his book The Summer Anniversaries)
• All the Dead Dears by Sylvia Plath (from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes)
• The Blue Flannel Suit by Ted Hughes (from his book Birthday Letters)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 12, 2023)

 Coffee. Good poems by other people. Welcome.

Poems read: 

• Just Once by Anne Sexton (from her book Love Poems)
• VII. by Wendell Berry (a 2006 Sabbath poem from his book Leavings)
• Shaping by Mahmud Al-Braikan, trans. by Haider Al-Kabi (from Atlanta Review, Iraq, Spring/Summer 2007)

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

 

Poems:

By Emily Dickinson:

• A Thought went up my mind today 
• If I can stop one Heart from breaking

(both poems in Final Harvest, edited by Thomas H. Johnson)

By Wendell Berry:

• Questionnaire (from his book Leavings)
• XV. (Sabbath Poem from 2005, collected in his book Leavings)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 29, 2023)

Every Sunday we share coffee, and I read good poems by other people. I'm glad for that. Somehow, we've reached the last Sunday in January with poems while others compete to sell the most cars by the end of the month, or to kill the most people in a moment, or to kick off the year by murdering a man on his way from here to there. 

I hope you had a week. I hope we have another. 

Amidst it all, preschoolers frown in concentration as they hum the written sounds of their language, cats curl into their beds after breakfast, and mothers try to plan around war. Wherever you may be this week, in this strange world, here are a few poems for you.

Poems:

By Marvin Bell from his book Mars Being Red

• Coffee
• What Things Are

By Wendell Berry from his book Leavings

• A Letter (to Ed McClanahan)
• Men Untrained to Comfort

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 22, 2023)

 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (1/22/23)

Poems read:

• Downtown in January Poem by c.d. wright (from her book Shallcross)
• Obscurity and Isolation by c.d. wright (from her book Shallcross)
• Playing House by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)
• Theoretical Lives by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires) 
• 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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