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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.

Woman with Amputated Breasts Awaits PET Scan Results

Katie Farris

The waiting, sleek as otters, slips between your lips.

from the book Standing in the Forest of Being Alive / Alice James Books

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Series

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June 1, 2023

lovership

tatiana nascimento (translated from the Portuguese by Natália Affonso)

planning the end of the world, to me, is an Afro-diasporic longing for night becoming day on the roof of your mouth, word apocalypse.

Book

lunduzinho

Publisher

Ugly Duckling Presse

Series

Translation

May 30, 2023

Fly, Hospital!

Kim Hyesoon (translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi)

The inside is life and the outside is death Life is a sealed bag I think that the guardrail bed is flying away...

Book

Phantom Pain Wings

Publisher

New Directions

Series

Translation

May 29, 2023

Heart Butte, Montana

M. L. Smoker

All that was left were the springtime faces of mountains, gazing down, their last patches of snow, luminous. I dreamed of becoming snow melt, gliding down the slope of history and into the valley. With the promise, an assurance, that there is always a way to become bird, tree, water again.

Book

New Poets of Native Nations

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Series

What Sparks Poetry

May 28, 2023

The Future Shrugs (excerpt)

Marie-Andrée Gill (translated from the French by Kristen Renee Miller)

if you are looking for me, I am home or somewhere on Nitassinan; all my doors and windows are open. I’m heating the outdoors.

Book

Heating the Outdoors

Publisher

Book*hug Press

Series

Translation

May 27, 2023

Pony

Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

for me to be a real Indian like the ones in the movies I was going to need to buy a pony...

Book

Rose Quartz

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Series

May 26, 2023

Dubious Evidence Skelton Was Chinese

Michael Farrell

He lived before there was an air index He chopped up Latin like a pickled vegetable When he walked under a bird they stopped singing like a light...

Book

Googlecholia

Publisher

Giramondo Publishing

Series

May 25, 2023

Wi-Fi in a Cemetery

Hussain Ahmed

We folded the grief in our pockets. The news got to his mama before we got home. I still expect an angel to knock on our door, before the pain slips away, before we decide who wears his clothes.

Book

Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile

Publisher

Black Ocean

Series

May 24, 2023

Late Summer Ode

Olena Kalytiak Davis

Look, our little tree has taken root, presents its fruit: thirty-six or -seven ombré ways to cherry. Alone (and mute) in the garden I garden, alone in...

Book

Late Summer Ode

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Series

May 22, 2023

Dictionary for Lonesome George

Isabel Zapata (translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers)

Archipelago: of Columbus; Galapagos Islands: five main islands, three smaller ones, and 107 islets scattered across the Pacific Ocean, 605 miles to the east of mainland Ecuador.

Book

A Whale Is a Country

Publisher

Almadía

Series

Translation, What Sparks Poetry

May 21, 2023

The Desire to Be Oneself

Homero Aridjis (translated from the Spanish by George McWhirter)

because there's no need of a shadow and then you might see countryside not as countryside but a fistful of air if only you could cast the horse far behind you and ride on, on yourself

Book

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence

Publisher

New Directions

Series

Translation