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 (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 (April 28, 2024)

 

Poems:

• Gravity
• Chemise by Kay Ryan (from her book Say Uncle)
• Slowness by Polly Buckingham (from her book River People)
• portrait of the rain by Jan Wagner, trans. by David Keplinger (appears in Poetry, Volume 221: Number 1)

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

 So glad to be back! And with these poems. Enjoy!

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

Poems:

• The Sun by Anne Sexton (from her collection Live or Die)
• Moon Song for my mother by Caroline Harper New (from her collection A History of Half-Birds)
• What Remains Grows Ravenous by Ada Limón (from her collection Bright Dead Things)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (January 21, 2024)

Three poems for today's reading. Enjoy!

Poems:

• Make Me No Lazy Love by Norma Farber (from Poetry, January 1958)
• Our City is Guarded by Automatic Rockets by William Stafford (from Poetry, January 1958)
• Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)

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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 (November 26, 2023)

Next week will bring us into December, and so I guess this is the last of our November poems for the year. 

Poems:

• Everybody Lying on their Stomachs, Head Toward the Candle, Reading, Sleeping, Drawing by Gary Snyder (from his book No Nature)
• Love’s Map by Donald Justice (from his book The Summer Anniversaries)
• The Other House by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)

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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 (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 9/10/23

 

Poems:

• To be of use by Marge Piercy (from Poetry Foundation)
• September, 1918 by Amy Lowell (from Poetry Foundation)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 16, 2023)

 

Poems:

• Waking at Night
• Cherishing What Isn’t 

(Both by Jack Gilbert from his Collected Poems)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (Monday Edition, July 10, 2023)

Over the weekend, my son and I spent our days in the Umatilla National Forest, which was fantastic for all the reasons one might imagine--trees, ground squirrels, wildflowers, stars, mountain streams--and the added bonus of no internet access. So, like a holiday delaying garbage pick-up by one day, this week's session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee arrives at your doorstep on a Monday rather than our usual Sunday. I hope it finds you there, regardless, and that you'll find one of these poems to have the right words for your current moment.

Poems!

• Space & Time by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry of Survival)
• Two Laments by Daniel Halpern (from his book Traveling on Credit)
• Choice by Susan Bright (from her book Atomic Basket)
• Immortality by AI (from her book Sin)

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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 (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 (April 30, 2023)

 I'd love to read a few good poems by other people to you. Here:

Poems:

• As if Darkness Can Mend It All by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Rust Fish)
• Once Later by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• The River People by Polly Buckingham (from her book The River People)
• Place Setting by Ann Tweedy (in Lavender Review 2012)

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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 (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 (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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