Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (4/25/21)

This is the last Sunday of National Poetry Month here in the United States. Here's to a final week of celebrating poetry. I hope you find a poet or poem and share it with a friend in the real or virtual world.

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (4/25/21)

Poems read:

• IV. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems 2014)
• We May No Longer Consider the End by Ruth Ellen Kocher
• Good Times by Lucille Clifton
• Power by Audre Lorde
• A More Delicate River by Ann Tweedy
• V. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems 2014)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 18, 2021)

 Friends! Every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Join us.

• 7ish AM (Pacific Time)
• Sundays
• https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle

Here's today's installment:

Poems read:

- II. by Wendell Berry (from Sabbath Poems 2015)

- The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water by Mary Oliver

- Unmeditated Experience by Bob Hicok

- Walking with Jackie, Sitting with a Dog by Gary Soto

- A Dog has Died by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alfred Yankauer

- The Way We Said Goodbye by Mark Vinz

-VIII. by Wendell Berry (from Sabbath Poems 2015)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 11, 2021)

 

Poems read:

- IX. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems)

- In April by Rainer Maria Rilke

- April by Alicia Ostriker

- I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party by Chen Chen

- Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

- XII. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 4, 2021)

 

Poems read:

- Travelling at Home by Wendell Berry

- Sam by Ted Hughes

- Shooting Wild by Natasha Trethewey

- One Hundred and Eighty by Arielle Greenberg

- La Terre Smelled of Fish by Luis Alberto Urrea

- Listen by Wendell Berry

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 28, 2021)

 

Poems read:

• March Snow by Wendell Berry
• On a Palm by James Matthew Wilson
• An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
• My Bed Shakes & I Assume the Ghosts Are Finally Getting Me by Su Cho
• Loop (in dirt and gold)by Hadara Bar-Nadav
• The Singing Pills by Hadara Bar-Nadav
• Girl by Lane Falcon
• Night Strains by Ann Tweedy
• The Finches by Wendell Berry

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 21, 2021)

 

Poems read:

• Another Descent by Wendell Berry
• Spring by Mary Oliver
• A Bird, came down the Walk by Emily Dickinson
• anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
• Quarantine by Eaven Boland
• Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
• Fall by Wendell Berry

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 7, 2021)

 

Poems read:

• In a Country Once Forested by Wendell Berry
• American Dreams by Julia Alvarez
• The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine
• Little Owl who Lives in the Orchard by Mary Oliver
• As if Darkness Can Mend it All by Maya Jewell Zeller
• The Plan by Wendell Berry

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 28, 2021)

 

Poems read:

• A Meeting by Wendell Berry
• The Sun by Anne Sexton
• America Will Be by Joshua Bennett
• Six Obits by Victoria Chang
• Primal Scream by Ann Tweedy
• Come Forth by Wendell Berry

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 21, 2021)

 

Poems read:

• Anger Against Beasts by Wendell Berry
• Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman by Sonia Sanchez
• Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen by Dante Di Stefano
• Sherpa Song by David Barber
• The Arrival by Wendell Berry

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (February 14, 2021)

 

Poems read:

• They by Wendell Berry
• Argument by Daniel Halpern
• II (from 24 Love Poems) by Adrienne Rich
• fracture by Ann Tweedy
• Early Kitchen by Ann Tweedy
• Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
• Romance Sonambulo by Lorca
• To You by Walt Whitman
• Why by Wendell Berry