Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (September 11, 2022)

Like every Sunday, this one is made of good poems by other people, and we will drink coffee. Today's session, however, is longer than most and dedicated to Sandy Williams, an advocate, leader, organizer, helper, daughter, mother, thinker, editor, friend, ally, mentor, helper, speaker, community radio programmer, and so much more to many of us in Spokane who knew her in a variety of ways and levels, and to everyone who didn't know her but whose lives have been definitely affected by her reach, dreams, intelligence, and work.

Poems read:

• These poems from The Black Poets, A New Anthology edited by Dudley Randall:
• Langston Hughes 
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers (To W.E.B. DuBois)
• Children’s Rhymes
• Words like Freedom
• James A. Randall, Jr.
• When Something Happens 
• Nikki Giovanni
• For Saundra
• Knoxville, Tennessee
• The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "What it Feels Like to Exhale," editorial by Sandy Williams (from The Black Lens News, issue December 2017)
• Excerpts from part III of Citizen, An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• Things Get Harder When It Rains by beyza ozer (from Halal if You Hear Me, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3)
• These poems by William Evans from his book Still Can’t Do My Daughter’s Hair
• Gigi
• Even Though I Love You More Than Anything That Won’t Stop Them From Killing You
• I Turn The Volume Down Because Beyoncé Says Fuck While I Drive My Daughter to School
• These poems by AI from her book SIN
• More (for James Wright)
• The Man with The Saxophone
• These poems by Audre Lorde from The Selected Works of Audre Lorde:
• If You Come Softly
• Progress Report
• A Sewerplant Grows in Harlem Or I’m a Stranger Here Myself When Does The Next Swan Leave
• These poems by Jericho Brown from his book The Tradition:
• The Tradition
• Foreday in the Morning 
• Shovel
• dream where every black person is standing by the ocean by Danez Smith (from his book Don’t Call Us Dead)
• Mothering is Poetry by Nayyirah Waheed, written in commemoration of Afeni Shakur (selected by Sandy Williams for the Black Lens News, issue March 2019)

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (September 4, 2022)

Hello September! Hello, you! We begin a new month of Sundays and good poems by other people. Cheers!

Poems read:

• After Bishop by Natalya Sukhonos (from Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28/Summer Fall 2022)
• On Orchids by Anne Carson (from her book Plainwater)
• The Finishing Work by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
• Portrait of my Father by Kathleen Flenniken (from her book Plume)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee: August 28, 2022

It's the last Sunday of August, and so here's the last batch of poems for August 2022. Thanks for dropping by again or for the first time.

 

Poems read:

• Fifteen by William Stafford 
• A Room by Carolyn Forche (from her book In the Lateness of the World)
• The Unsaying by Ann Tweedy (from Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28)
• Double Mastectomy by Nikki Ummel (from Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28)
• Fellowship Application by Joseph Rios (from LatiNEXT: The Breakbeat Poets, Vol. 4)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (August 21, 2022)

Here is this week's episode of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, wherein we drink coffee while I read good poems by other people. Today's poems are brought to you by my cleaning out of the garage and discovering a plethora of books, including poetry books, that I have not cracked in a handful of years. Enjoy!

 

• Locked Doors by Anne Sexton (from her book The Awful Rowing Toward God)
• Morning Song by Sylvia Plath (from The Collected Poems)
• Luck Town by Anne Carson (from The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997)
• Town on the Way Through God's Woods by Anne Carson (from The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997)
• A Story About the Body by Robert Hass (from his book Human Wishes)
• Envoi by Charles Wright (from his book Black Zodiac)
• When I Read the Book by Walt Whitman (from Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by James E. Miller, Jr.)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (August 14, 2022)

It's mid-August and perhaps you're thinking of all that needs to be done in that last-summer, near-harvest, start-of-school sort of way. 

Glad you're here instead. Every Sunday, we drink coffee while I read good poems by other people. Enjoy!

 

Poems read:

• Architect’s Watercolor by Arthur Sze (from Poetry, October 2021)
• Blades of Grace by Carolina Duan (from Poetry, October 2021)
• Thankful by Patricia Smith (from her book Blood Dazzler)
• Song of the Stone and The Lost Child by George Mackay Brown (from his book Carve the Ruins)
• XIII. by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
• A Ghost Sings by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)
• I Imagine the Gods by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)
• Naming by Polly Buckingham (from her book The River People)
• Ms. Chisolm’s Red Jacket by Polly Buckingham (from The River People)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (August 7, 2022)

I missed all of you last Sunday! All is well, and here we are in August already. Welcome back (or for the first time) to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee, a weekly gathering in the virtual world wherein I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. And some of us may brush our hair for the occasion, but clearly I am not of that party.

Poems read:

• In the Reunion of All My Selves by Aline Mello (from LatiNEXT: The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4)
• We May No Longer Consider the End by Ruth Ellen Kocher (from The Best American Poetry, 2019)
• Riddle by Laura Kasischke (from Space, in Chains)
• My Brother is Asking for Stamps by Michael Torres (from Poetry, Feb. 2021)
• Look at What I’ve Done! by Porsha Olayiwola (from her book I Shimmer Sometimes, Too)
• from Sand Creek by Simon J. Ortiz 

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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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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 17, 2022)

Every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. This week we celebrate the naming of the new United States Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Thanks for listening. If you have a poem or a poet whose work you'd like to hear, message me at erintpringle[at]gmail.com, and I'll add it to next week's lineup. Cheers!

Poems read:

• Portrait and Shadow by Andrés Cerpa (LatiNEXT: Break Beat Poets, Vol. 4)
• For the Record by Naomi Ayala (LatiNEXT: Break Beat Poets, Vol. 4)
• Beneath the Trailer by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
• No Cause for Prediction by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from her book Known by Salt)
• What It Looks Like to Us and the Words We Use by Ada Limón (Poetry Foundation)
• Late Summer After a Panic Attack by Ada Limón (Poetry Foundation)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 10, 2022)

We have reached into July, it looks like. Welcome to today's session of poetry. Every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Thanks for joining me.

Poems read:

• Swimming Lessons by Daniel Halpern (from his book Foreign Neon)
• Nights & Days by Adrienne Rich (from her book The Dream of a Common Language)
• Forward & Reverse by m.l. smoker (from her book Another Attempt at Rescue)
• Hash Marks by Nikky Finney (from her book Head Off & Split)
• Elegy by Lena Tuffaha (from the anthology Halal if You Hear Me, the Break Beat Poets Vol. 3)
• II. by Wendell Berry (Sabbath Poems 2014, from his book A Small Porch)

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 3, 2022)

A new month, a new session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee. Cheers!

 

• I Was in a Hurry by Dunya Mikhail (from her book The War Works Hard, trans. by Elizabeth Winslow)
• Poem in a Trance by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
• Poem with a Missing Pilot by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
• Everything Natalie by Arielle Greenberg (from her book My Kafka Century)
• There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women by Audre Lorde

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