Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 11, 2023)

 

Poems:

• Poem Starved for Music 
• Poem with a Girl Almost Fifteen

Both by C.D. Wright from her book Shallcross

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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 (May 21, 2023)

This week's poems are now ready! A special thanks to Lurch the cat for joining.

• Gift Horses by Jack Gilbert (from his book The Great Fires)
• Second Language by Jericho Brown (from his book The Tradition)
• Old Man at Home Alone in the Morning by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)

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"Grimly Gorgeous Stories": Tom Noyes on Unexpected Weather Events, new stories by Erin Pringle

“Erin Pringle has done it again. In this clutch of grimly gorgeous stories, resilient characters navigate perilous conditions and deteriorating landscapes in their efforts to transcend, or at least come to terms with, the dicey, mysterious predicaments of their strangely familiar lives. The greatest graces afforded these pilgrims, not to mention us readers, are the sentences, coldly true and perfectly pitched, that pump their blood and afford them breath. Erin Pringle is not a minimalist, nor is she a language-for-language’s-sake lyricist, but her prose, its sound and its sense, is the heart of the book.” 

- Tom Noyes, author of The Substance of Things Hoped For

📖 Due out October 1, 2023

😀 Pre-order: https://awst-press.com/shop/unexpected-weather-events

💙 Published by Awst Press

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (5/14/2023)

Another Sunday and more good poems. Enjoy!

 

• The Rival by Sylvia Plath (from her book Ariel)
• Malines by Paul Verlaine (from his book Songs without Words, trans. Donald Revell)
• Turtle by Robert Lowell (from his Collected Poems)

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Unexpected Weather Events, a New Book of Stories

I'm happy to share the good news that my next book is a collection of stories entitled Unexpected Weather Events, and that it's found a home with Awst Press, which published my last book, Hezada! I Miss You. The wonderful cover is by L.K. James who also did the cover for Hezada! 

• Now available for pre-order through the press: https://awst-press.com/shop/unexpected-weather-events
• Publication date: October 1, 2023

“Erin Pringle is my favorite living author. This breathtaking new collection more than solidifies that opinion. Her writing is soul-rich with wonder and terror, tapping into a child’s dream-like experience of family, change, and death. These are not only stories; each piece is a spell swirling with grief, love, and the bitter-strong beauty of being alive.”

— Owen Egerton, author of HOLLOW and HOW BEST TO AVOID DYING

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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 (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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