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 (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 (November 10, 2024)

It has been a hot minute since we met for coffee and poetry, but I'm glad we've found each other again. 

Poems:

• Grace by Wendell Berry
• The Burial of the Old by Wendell Berry
• A Lake Scene by May Swenson (from Poetry, 91:5 Feb. 1958)
• Old Moon River Moon by Susan Bright (from her book Atomic Basket)

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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 (January 7, 2024)

 We have entered a new year, and here is our first reading within it. 

Poems:

• Address to the Angels (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)
• My Father's Neckties by Maxine Kumin (from her Selected Poems 1960-1990)
• 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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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (December 17, 2023)

It wasn't until I typed out December 17 that I realized how far into this month we've come. Thanks for bringing your coffee today to listen to good poems by other people. Today's reading is for my good friend Steve Parker who is home in bed when he'd rather be in the mountains.

Poems:

• The Plan by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

• Hiking with the Old Acorn Lady by J.W. Rivers (1988)

• Mason Jars by the Window by Alberto Rios (1988)

• Last Hike Before Leaving Montana by Patricia Traxler (from her book Naming the Fires, 2015)

• Grace by Wendell Berry (1967)

• The Hike by Neil Weiss (1955)

• The Burial of the Old by Wendell Berry (1967)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 2, 2023)

 

Poems read:

• Summer Sky by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• The Wings of Daylight by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• Man at a Window by Jack Gilbert (from The Great Fires)
• Not Most by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from Known by Salt)
• XII. by Wendell Berry (of Sabbath Poems 2015, collected in his book A Small Porch)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 18, 2023)

 Poems!

This Sunday's poems:

• II. To The National Security Agency
• III. (both by Wendell Berry, from his book A Small Porch)
• Death Town
• Luck Town (both by Anne Carson, from The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1987)
• When You Clean Your Weapon by Borys Humenyuk, trans. by Oksana Maksymuchuk and Max Rosochinsky (from In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine)
• [Take Immortality, God, but give] by Dmitry Bliznyk, trans. by Ilya Kaminsky (from In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine)
• Eating Dinner Alone at the 163rd Street Mall by Ariel Francisco (from the anthology LatiNEXT: Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4)
• In the Reunion of My Selves by Aline Mello (from the anthology LatiNEXT: Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4)
• Work Shirt by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)

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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 (April 9, 2023)

Welcome to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee. It's Spring, Easter, and a useful time to dig up all the spring poems that poets plant in most every book.  

Poems:

• Spring by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)
• Skunk Cabbage by Rennie McQuilkin (found in the book Nature for the Very Young: A Handbook of Indoor & Outdoor Activities)
• For the Future by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
• From Time to Time by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 19, 2023)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee is a Sunday reading series in which I read good poems by other people. Thanks for joining! 

Poems read:

• Sabbath Poem VII. In time a man disappears by Wendell Berry (from his book Leavings)
• Landscape with Little Figures by Donald Justice (from his book The Summer Anniversaries)
• On the Death of Friends in Childhood by Donald Justice (from his book The Summer Anniversaries)
• Stranger by Night by Edward Hirsch (from The Best American Poetry 2019, eds. Major Jackson and David Lehman)

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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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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 15, 2023)

 

Poems read:

• Sabbath Poem IV. (2015 series) by Wendell Berry (from his book A Small Porch)
• Flow Chart by Kathleen Flenniken (from her book Plume)
• The Flower Horses by Laura Read (from her book Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral)
• A Work for Poets by George Mackay Brown (from his book Carve the Runes)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (November 20, 2022)

Hello, hello! Welcome to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee; most every Sunday I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. 

Poems read:

• Autumn Equinox by George Mackay Brown (from his book Carve the Ruins)
• Envoi by Charles Wright (from his book Black Zodiac)
• Travel Agency by Dunya Mikhail (from her book The War Works Hard, trans. by Elizabeth Winslow)
• IX. by Wendell Berry (“In the early morning we awaken” from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (November 13, 2022)

Good poems by other people, read aloud by me, over coffee with you. Today, I'm reading two poems by each of three poets.

Poems read:

By Tina Mozelle Braziel:

• Known by Salt
• Beneath the Trailer

By Wendell Berry:

• The Old Elm by the River
• The Record

By Polly Buckingham

• Outside my Window
• Grieving at the Longest Traffic Light in the World

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (October 9, 2022)

Two poems by Wendell Berry are always better than no poems by Wendell Berry, or no poems at all. Here we go!

 

Poems read:

• Grace by Wendell Berry 
• The Burial of the Old by Wendell Berry 

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