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 (1/8/23)

We've reached another Sunday! Time for coffee and poetry.

 

Poems read: 

• Winter by Billy Collins
• Some Questions You Might Ask by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)
• First Date by Daniel Halpern (from his book Traveling on Credit)
• January by Robert Hass (from his book Human Wishes)
• Poem without Angel Food by c.d. wright (from her book Shallcross)

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Happy New Year! Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (1/1/23)

Happy New Year! Thanks for joining me for coffee and poems. We do this most every week, and I hope you'll drop in again next Sunday. If there's ever a poem or poet you'd like to hear, let me know by contacting me through this website or leaving a comment on the video on my Facebook Page. Enjoy!

Poems read:

• Pain for a Daughter by Anne Sexton (from her book Live or Die)
• Nights and Days by Adrienne Rich (from her book The Dream of a Common Language)
• Lost Poem by Molly Saty (from her book put sparklers on my grave)
• Remembering to Sing by Patricia Smith (from her book Blood Dazzler)

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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (December 18, 2022)

Welcome back to Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee! It has been a hot minute since our last session, and I'm glad we're back together. All is well on my side of the world; we've simply been busier than busy. I hope all is well in your world--or as well as it can be. To make my return to our routine a bit easier, today's reading consists of poems all published in Poetry, one of the popular literary magazines. 

If you're new, welcome! What we do here: Most every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. 

 

Poems read:

• Training by Diannely Antigua (from Poetry/December 2021)
• Dried Flowers by Daniel Moysaenko (from Poetry/January 2022)
• Definitive by Melissa Sauma, translated by Janet McAdams (from Poetry/March 2022)
• Dogs' Wedding by Zêdan Xelef (from Poetry/April 2022)

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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

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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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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

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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 30, 2022)

Most every Sunday, I read good poems by other people while we all drink coffee. Here are some good ones by wonderful women writers.

 

Poems read:

• Early Kitchen by Ann Tweedy (from her book A Registry of Survival)
• The Cast Off by Marge Piercy (from her book The Moon is Always Female)
• Newton’s Apple by Brooke Matson (from her book In Accelerated Silence)
• As if Darkness Can Mend All by Maya Jewell Zeller (from her book Rust Fish)

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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

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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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🠊 More poetry sessions here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Catch the live show on Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle