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

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

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (July 2, 2023)

 

Poems read:

• Summer Sky by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• The Wings of Daylight by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• Man at a Window by Jack Gilbert (from The Great Fires)
• Not Most by Tina Mozelle Braziel (from Known by Salt)
• XII. by Wendell Berry (of Sabbath Poems 2015, collected in his book A Small Porch)

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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 Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

"Troubling, tender, and hallucinatory": Polly Buckingham on Erin Pringle's newest stories

Polly Buckingham on Unexpected Weather Events: 

“Reading UNEXPECTED WEATHER EVENTS is like looking into a snow so mesmerizing and crystalline you are unable to turn away, at once illuminated and profoundly lost. They are stories of winter madness—troubling, tender, and hallucinatory—stories of connection and misconnection, of love and grief and isolation in the increasingly dangerous and tenuous reality of our contemporary condition.”

Forthcoming from AWST Press, October 1

Book here: https://awst-press.com/shop/unexpected-weather-events 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (June 25, 2023)

 We've reached the last Sunday in June. I hope you enjoy these poems.

Poems:

• 3 A.M. Kitchen: My Father Talking by Tess Gallagher (from her book, Under Stars)
• Exile by Carolyn Forché (from her book, In the Lateness of the World)

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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 Sunday mornings at some time-ish: https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

"At turns deadpan and compassionate, always wise and complex": Sharma Shields on Erin Pringle's Unexpected Weather Events

Good words by friend and fellow writer Sharma Shields on my next book: 

 “In Erin Pringle’s breathtaking story collection UNEXPECTED WEATHER EVENTS ghosts arrive on wintry nights, the sky bleeds red snow, a hole opens up between heaven and hell, and characters learn to grieve, to laugh, to love, even as the harrowing world around them shudders and quakes with loss. The themes and tone in these pages—at turns deadpan and compassionate, always wise and complex—converse beautifully with the fiction of Miriam Toews and Agota Kristof. This book reminded me: We are not alone in our sorrow; there are always new ways—even in a petrifying darkness—to see and to love.”

— Sharma Shields, author of THE CASSANDRA

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Pre-order Unexpected Weather Events from Awst Press. Purchasing books early and from the publisher always helps fund the printing, marketing, and distribution costs along the way. You also receive it at a lower cost. 

> Preorder! https://awst-press.com/shop/unexpected-weather-events

> To be released October 1, 2023

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

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

Owen Egerton on Unexpected Weather Events: "Erin Pringle is my favorite living writer."

 “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, filmmaker, comedian, actor + author of HOLLOW and HOW BEST TO AVOID DYING

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Pre-order Unexpected Weather Events from Awst Press. Purchasing books early and from the publisher always helps fund the printing, marketing, and distribution costs along the way. Visit Awst's website by clicking here: https://awst-press.com/shop/unexpected-weather-events

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

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