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Carol Ann Duffy's new poem celebrating trees
Watch the Poet Laureate recite her work. (BBC)
James K Baxter: venerated poet's letters about marital rape rock New Zealand
Collection of writings just released includes references to rape of then-wife Jackie Sturm, herself an acclaimed poet and author. (The Guardian)
Poetry Rx: Valentine's Day Edition
Kaveh Akbar shares poems in response to letters on love. (The Paris Review)
Overlooked No More: Dudley Randall, Whose Broadside Press Gave a Voice to Black Poets
Randall, a poet and librarian, started the press out of his home, eventually publishing the work of about 200 writers amid Detroit’s flowering Black Arts Movement. (The New York Times)
Rooms of all our own
Diane Purkiss on the history of ignoring early women writers. (The Times Literary Supplement)
A Poet’s Heartfelt Biography of Cy Twombly
Joshua Rivkin, a poet himself, passionately admires Twombly’s art and feels compelled to understand the man who made it. (Hyperallergic)
from "Deaf Republic"
A poet writes deafness as a form of dissent agaisnt tyranny and violence. (The New Yorker)
"It is Not" by Valerie Martinez
Blank Verse Films presents a poem video for "It Is Not" by Valerie Martinez. (Blank Verse Films)
American Life in Poetry
Ted Kooser presents "Weren't We Beautiful"by Marge Saiser. (American Life in Poetry)
"Black poets never went away"
Erica Dawson on why there is no "single story spun on a single tongue." (PBS NewsHour)
Recently Arrived Titles
These just in... Highlighted titles may be purchased from Poetry Daily / Amazon.com. A complete
list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy, Andrés Cerpa (Alice James Books)
- A Piece of Good News, Katie Peterson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- A Change of Heart, Randy Blasing (Copper Beech Press)
- Black Hole Factory, Eric Smith (University of Tampa Press)
- Ten, Jennifer Firestone (BlazeVOX [books])
- The Road Itself, Aralee Strange (Dos Madres Press)
- Writing in the Ether, Catherine Arra (Dos Madres Press)
- In A Moment We May Be Strangely Blended, David Giannini (Dos Madres Press)
- Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, Dorianne Laux (W. W. Norton & Company)
- Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene, Linda Russo (Editor), Marthe Reed (Editor) (Wesleyan University Press)
- The Narrow Way of Souls, Eileen Sheehan (Salmon Poetry)
- We Have Been Lucky In The Midst Of Misfortune, Sarah Stern (Kelsay Books)
- Strange What Rises, Gary J Whitehead (Terrapin Books )
- Life and the Fields, George Keithley (Turning Point)
- The Mays of Ventadorn, W. S. Merwin ( National Geographic)
- Almost Naked, Hadley Hury ( David Robert Books)
- Winter Light, Roberta Senechal de la Roche (David Robert Books)
- Still Seeing a Dead Soldier, James Deitz (Turning Point)
- Wringing Blood: New & Selected Long Poems , Ruth O'Callaghan (Salmon Pub Ltd)
- Smitten Soul: Illuminating the Dark, Gabriel Fitzmaurice (Salmon Poetry)
- States of Happiness, Suzanne Batty (Bloodaxe Books Ltd)
- WORKaDAY, Grey Held (FutureCycle Press)
- Music Lesson, Kristen Staby Rembold (FutureCycle Press)
- Herod's Dispensations, Harry Clifton (Wake Forest University Press)
- Remembrance of Water / Twenty-Five Trees, John Taylor (Author), Caroline Francois-Rubino (Artist) (The Bitter Oleander Press)
- These Many Rooms, Laure-Anne Bosselaar (Four Way Books)
- Birches, Carl Adamshick (Four Way Books)
- rivers of the driftless region, Mark Conway (Four Way Books)
- Little-Known Operas, Patrick Donnelly (Four Way Books)
- The Book of Ruin, Rigoberto González (Four Way Books)
- Company, Sam Ross (Four Way Books)
- A Crown of Hornets, Marcia Pelletiere (Four Way Books)
- Forest with Castanets, Diane Mehta (Four Way Books)
- Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going, Jessica Jacobs (Four Way Books)
- Fears and Pleasures, Helen Tzagoloff (Word Poetry)
- Welcome, Dangerous Life, Ben Gunsberg (Turning Point)
- The Dictionary of Unspellable Noises: New & Selected Poems 1975 - 2018, Clint McCown (Press 53)
- To Be the Difference , Willie James King (Press 53)
- The Little Book of Passage / Libretto di transito, Franca Mancinelli (Author), John Taylor (Translator) ( Bitter Oleander Press)
- Small Buried Things, Debra Marquart (New Rivers Press)
- A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, DaMaris Hill ( Bloomsbury Publishing)
- Sunday Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems, Brian Swann (Sheep Meadow Press )
- The Apathy of Clouds, Domenic Scopa (FutureCycle Press)
- There Is a Field, Barbara Conrad (FutureCycle Press)
- The Unbeckonable Bird , Pamela Murray Winters (FutureCycle Press)
- Petty Theft: Poems, Nicholas Friedman (Criterion Books)
- The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, T. S. Eliot (Author), Christopher Ricks (Editor), Jim McCue (Editor) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Sweet Herbaceous Miracle, Berwyn Moore ( BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City)
- Crude Angel, Suzanne Cleary (BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City)
- My Oceanography, Harriet Levin (CavanKerry)
- To Those Who Were Our First Gods, Nickole Brown (Rattle Foundation)
- Mitochondrial Night, Ed Bok Lee (Coffee House Press)
- Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed, Amish Trivedi (Shearsman Books )
- Native Species, Todd Davis (Michigan State University Press)
- Scared Violent Like Horses: Poems, John McCarthy (Milkweed Editions)
- Because a Fire in Our Heads, Jay Udall (Texas Review Press)
- Gallop: Selected Poems, Alison Brackenbury (Carcanet Press Ltd)
- What No One Ever Tells You, Matt Malyon (Editor), Jennifer Hendrix (Editor) (Village Books)
- Trickster Feminism, Anne Waldman (Penguin Books)
- Anaphora , Kevin Goodan (Alice James Book)
Past Features:
Original
articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more are available in the Archives.
