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 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.

from the book Heating the Outdoors / Book*hug Press

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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

May 20, 2023

Glass of Blood

Max Jacob (translated from the French by Alexander Dickow)

The wild boar that left the trees Has thrown his golden tusks and his fury Tomorrow the nasturtiums will have withered And I will see, Lord, how you are murdered. The northern air has scarred over the wounds.

Book

The Central Laboratory

Publisher

Wakefield Press

Series

Translation

May 19, 2023

Milk

Ina Cariño

she still shakes her head at me says bobo why are you so stupid says I was lucky to be so close to one who smells of milk but when milk turns sour ferments blooms fetid under the nose the only thing to do is pour it down the drain

Book

Feast

Publisher

Alice James Book

Series

May 18, 2023

Great Things from the Department of Transportation

Sommer Browning

My mother prays for children every night.

I bet you never thought you'd marry, have a baby, and get divorced before you're 40, she tells me.

My mother expects great things from the Department of Transportation.

Book

Good Actors

Publisher

Birds LLC

Series

May 17, 2023

Declassified

Mai Der Vang

May this Secret War its author of poisons its professor of counterfeit treaties kidnapper of honeybees each iota of its polluted doing may it all burn and blister under its own nakedness