Book Features

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.

The Lord and The General Din of the World

Jane Mead

And under all this now a steady grating— a plastic bottle of blue cheese dressing scraping up against the concrete gutter, bobbing off the aqua, sun-flicked waves the kids have made by jumping.

from the book To the Wren: Collected & New Poems / Alice James Books

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January 19, 2020

Conversion

Megan Fernandes

the girl with the fake lashes knows i like a double gin and i am telling sam that i am a dog who was converted when i was seventeen and my mother found an essay about how i was in love with a girl and there was a portishead reference

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Good Boys

Publisher

Tin House

Series

January 17, 2020

Entreaty

Joseph J. Capista

Having seen the osprey grasp then set its fish so that en route from sea to bay prey's eyes face only west...

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Intrusive Beauty

Publisher

Ohio University Press

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January 15, 2020

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Gemma Gorga (translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin)

I ponder it now, while holding this new book in my hands, the words still slick like the feathers of a newly hatched bird.

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Book of Minutes

Publisher

Oberlin College Press

Series

Editor's Choice, Translation

January 14, 2020

Funeral in Paris

Aria Aber

Each natural passing articulates the unnatural: every aunt has a son who fell, or a daughter who hid in rubble for two years, until that knock of officers holding a bin bag filled with a dress and bones.

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Hard Damage

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

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January 13, 2020

Dutch Elm

Stanley Plumly

I miss the elms, their "crowns of airy dreams," as Virgil calls them, their towering cathedral branching spread into a ceiling above the lonely sidewalks of Ohio where the first elm deaths were reported in America.

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Against Sunset

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Series

What Sparks Poetry

January 12, 2020

Speech time

Hera Lindsay Bird

I am bored of making speeches I have to say so many things I don't care about It reminds me of life It reminds me of when you are a cowboy and your hat gets too heavy

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Pamper Me to Hell & Back

Publisher

Smith|Doorstop

Series

January 11, 2020

The Daughters of Samuel Little

Faylita Hicks

left unburied to rot, black girls writhe on asphalt. their shadows seethe & seek out their ancestors. call on papa legba in search of roots. seek a denouement for black girls.

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HoodWitch

Publisher

Acre Books

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January 8, 2020

from “Dame”

Caroline Bergvall

Hi you all, I'm Alisoun. Some people call me Al. Am many things to many a few thyinge to some & nothing but an irritant to socialites and othere glossing troglodytes. I dig a good chat banter aboute.

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Alisoun Sings

Publisher

Nightboat Books

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Editor's Choice

January 7, 2020

The Stepmother

Sabrina Orah Mark

It is a beautiful mouse. The Stepmother has no guts but she does have some scissors which she uses to cut the mouse out. No one wants to be lonely, and afraid, and live in a note about smelling like Florida.

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Wild Milk

Publisher

Dorothy Project

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January 6, 2020

Farolita

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

...I’m trying to think now if it has to be white paper Can it show some light through?

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The Heat Bird

Publisher

Burning Deck Press

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What Sparks Poetry