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In 2018, among the 365 poems Poetry Daily presented, 160 came from books published by 80 different presses. Browse all those plus newly featured books here. You may also browse books presented via Editor’s Choice, which spotlights a new poetry collection publicly chosen by an editorial board member, featured books of Poetry in Translation, and by Publisher.

In a Sentimental Mood

Ivana Bodrožić (translated from the Croatian by Damir Šodan)

Jazz hid itself somewhere, it rustled its brushes cautiously, before all those christs and crosses, before all the loud sons and fathers

from the book In a Sentimental Mood / Sandorf Passage

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April 22, 2021

from “Chant for the Waters and Dirt and Blade”

Desiree C. Bailey

I am I but I won’t spill my name not here on this damned rock pushed out bloody from the bowels of the sea marketplace island where the cloud’s crest and birdsong all for sale

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What Noise Against the Cane

Publisher

Yale University Press

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April 21, 2021

At Lake Merced

C. Dale Young

Some men go down to the river. I went down, instead, to the lake: the air silent and stretched tightly over it, the water unmoved and dangerously still. Some men move past such a scene without even the slightest notice of it.

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Prometeo

Publisher

Four Way Books

Series

April 20, 2021

Nomad Poem

Vaan Nguyen (translated from the Hebrew by Adriana X. Jacobs)

He won’t ride a shod animal. He prefers to trouble his head to stand by the road unkempt under a tree waiting how he will outlive me like a quotation.

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The Truffle Eye

Publisher

Zephyr Press

Series

Translation

April 19, 2021

Conor Oberst

Sean Shearer

There were woods behind my house scattered with berries I couldn’t digest. I’d curl on top of the dirt hugging the knot inside my belly and now I’m in bed kissing a pale green vein as I listen to his voice like a knife with its scar— six birds stretched across a fret board.

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Red Lemons

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University of Akron Press

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April 18, 2021

/ˈmīɡrənt/

Tiana Nobile

Of an animal, especially a bird. A wandering species whom no seas nor places limit. A seed who survives despite the depths of hard winter. The ripple of a herring steering her band from icy seas to warmer strands.

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Cleave

Publisher

Hub City Press

Series

April 17, 2021

A Hint to Lucretius

Donald Revell

My mother's name was Doris, A Greek unknown to her. Hidden Among the wild herbs in their patterns Are first things, and first things never die. To them, the afterlife is a memory.

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White Campion

Publisher

Alice James Books

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April 16, 2021

American Multitude

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

as every thing begins with the heart beat of horses a tribe the thudded color of all creation my people gather brindle as if the night were drizzled long across their backs she of sickle sword of tendon & tusk

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Dēmos

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Series

April 15, 2021

from War of the Beasts and the Animals

Maria Stepanova (translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale)

they travelled a long time longlongtime dumbstruck stillstanding trees not-earth and earth pressed close builder's yards morgues fly-tips

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War of the Beasts and the Animals

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

Series

Translation

April 14, 2021

Blood Ode

Diamond Forde

fat girl nicks herself shaving in the shower, resents the water that will carry her blood to sea. Blood, worthless currency, cannot buy a country but becomes it, platelets stitching into streets. fat girl weeps for the blood that won't return—

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Mother Body

Publisher

Saturnalia Books

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April 13, 2021

Morning, As Is

Cynthia Arrieu-King

I didn’t want to do it over in silk flowers the main strands of staying here— flowers made of yarn held behind the back, a shore where splendor washed up a glittery stone, a sun setting in its stripes.