Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (Thanksgiving 2024)

 Today is the fourth anniversary of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, which began during the pandemic when many people were not gathering for the holiday in order to preserve the health of others. Thanks to everyone who has continued to listen and who has checked in to hear today's selections. 

Cheers! 

Erin

Poems:

• The Blackboard by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• Fieldnotes on Carrying by Caroline Harper New (from her book A History of Half-Birds)
• The Riveter by Ada Limón (from her book Bright Dead Things)
• Mama Said Nothing Good by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
• The Wild Geese by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 23, 2023)

 Welcome back to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee. Last week, I was running in Lolo, Montana in the Bitterroot Run-Off; the trail was difficult, ever-ascending (until it finally wasn't), and the skies and valley and snowy mountains gorgeous all around. But I've returned to the ground by now, so we have resumed our Sunday poems. Thanks for sticking with me.

Poems:

• The Miraculous by Kim Addonizio (from her book Now We're Getting Somewhere)
• Happiness Report by Kim Addonizio (from her book Now We're Getting Somewhere)
• Lament by Bert Meyers (from Poetry, January 2023 221:4)
• Homecoming by Bert Meyers (from Poetry, January 2023 221:4)

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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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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 (January 2, 2022)

Cheers to a new year of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee , a weekly Sunday series in which I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee (or orange juice or hot chocolate, etc.). Here's the first session of 2022.

 

Poems read:

• The Decision by Jane Hirshfield
• Tree by Jane Hirshfield
• Inventions Toward Pleasure by Cameron McGill
• 44.6336• N, 86.2345• W by Cameron Read McGill
• Early March, 2015 by Ann Tweedy
• Air Time by Ann Tweedy
• Poem for My Neighbor Whose Good Intentions Are Wolf Pelt by Jacqueline Allen Trimble
• The Language of Joy by Jacqueline Allen Trimble
• The Heron by Wendell Berry

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (December 19, 2021)

Welcome to this week's edition of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee. Today, special guest Henry Valentine joins us to share some favorite poems by Shel Silverstein.

 

Poems read:

• Snowball by Shel Silverstein 
• Little Jack Horner
• Foot Repair by Shel Silverstein 
• Snow on the fields by Christine Rossetti
• Like Snow by Wendell Berry

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 10, 2021)

Thanks for joining me for another session of poetry. We're somehow in October. I'm glad you've found yourself here, too.

Poems read:

• 15. from XIII. A Small Porch in the Woods by Wendell Berry 
• Walking in Paris by Anne Sexton
• B.F.F. by Hieu Minh Nguyen
• Grief Runs Untamed by Agnieszka Tworek

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (September 19, 2021)

 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (9/19/21)

Poems read: 

• Poem with No Up or Down by C.D. Wright
• Fall by Wendell Berry
• Ghazal for the Chicago Two-Step by Porsha Olayiwola
• Out of Body’s Your Matter of Opinion by Ben Cartwright 
• Plastic: A Personal History by Elizabeth Bradfield

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (August 22, 2021)

 

Poems read:

• August by Mary Oliver
• Turkeys in the Snow by Jory Mickelson
• Snake by D.H. Lawrence
• Burial by Yuxi Lin

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