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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.

Cleave

Lucien Darjeun Meadows

And fell, wrist-deep, into the body of a deer, Just a fawn, really, with no eyes. His mouth was open, His tongue black, swollen, vibrating with flies.

from the book In the Hands of the River / Hub City Press

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August 17, 2022

When You Lie Down and When You Rise Up

Lynn Melnick

From the time I was small I was told we're unsafe, told when they come back for us, when the Nazis come, back for us

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Refusenik

Publisher

YesYes Books

Series

August 16, 2022

Ode to Venice Before the Sea of Theaters

Pere Gimferrer (translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West)

The sea has its mechanics as love has its symbols. With what racket the red curtain rises or in this proscenium above an empty stage a rumor of statues resounds, iris fronds, cutlasses, doves that descend and softly alight.

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Pere Gimferrer

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Series

Translation

August 15, 2022

For a Bail Denied

Reginald Dwayne Betts

someone wailed & the boy’s mother yells: This ain’t justice. You can’t throw my son into that fucking ocean. She meant jail. & we was powerless to stop it. & too damn tired to be beautiful.

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Felon

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Series

What Sparks Poetry

August 14, 2022

My dad buried two dogs in the backyard

Barbara Fant

The screech becomes a bullet without a window to land through, just a body, a backyard, a shovel.

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Mouths of Garden

Publisher

Sundress Publications

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August 13, 2022

Elegy as Recursion: Into Another

Jan Verberkmoes

but have you seen a horse bury herself she falls through the vanishing point in her body and into a field she digs with her teeth...

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Firewatch

Publisher

Fonograf Editions

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August 12, 2022

Lemon Came in the Night

Shannon Webb-Campbell

dreaming in a borrowed bed a woman made of primary colours...

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Lunar Tides

Publisher

Book*hug Press

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August 11, 2022

With Ant and Celan

Eamon Grennan

This tiniest mite of an ant, no bigger than a full stop, is making its careful way across a poem by Celan and stopping to inspect with its ant feelers (can it smell or see? is all in the idiom of touch?)

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Plainchant

Publisher

Red Hen Press

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August 10, 2022

Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night

Morgan Parker

Singing enters me, becomes the window. Baby think of my skin as the best part of the song. Take me by the ribs and lay me at the bottom of a dirty creek where I can get a good view.

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Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night

Publisher

Tin House

Series

August 8, 2022

Elegy for my mother’s employer

Mihaela Moscaliuc

Why not swill fine cellar wine directly from the bottle why not waltz while mother cooks onions in the rain so they won’t pollute the inside with their crass smell

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Cemetery Ink

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Series

What Sparks Poetry

August 6, 2022

04 . 17 . 16 . 2

Laynie Browne

1. I stayed up later than my body 2. Determined and strange 3. Am I less cynical unbroken...