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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.

Landscape Genocide

Ladan Osman

My mother walked Liido Beach every morning when pregnant. I know the mineral scent of saltwater wherever I am. If the sun bakes the metal of earth, if my own damp scalp sweats, if I hold my hennaed palms to my face.

from the book Exiles of Eden / Coffee House Press

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November 19, 2019

[Lately when sorrows come]

Susan Laughter Meyers

What falls from the sky is not always rain or any kind of weather. Call it precipitous. I'm fooling myself, of course. Wearing sorrow is nothing like skin shedding water. It's more like the weight of a cloak of crows.

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Self-Portrait in the River of Déjà Vu

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Press 53

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November 18, 2019

Arroz Poetica

Aracelis Girmay

But to be perfectly clear, my enemies are not hungry. They are not standing in lines for food, or stretching rations, or waiting at the airports to claim the pieces of the bodies of their dead. My enemies ride jets to parties.

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Teeth

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

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What Sparks Poetry

November 17, 2019

The Phone

Chad Abushanab

There are things you can't learn over the phone, like how each day your mother's losing weight. Her hug has turned to a burlap sack of bones. You imagine it sharp and cold. Her heart beats jaggedly. There's dark beneath her eyes.

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The Last Visit

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Autumn House Press

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November 15, 2019

Comma

Jake Skeets

He is headlights; two boys quickly push off each other. Commas dangling like belt buckles from their ankled jeans as they run out to the brushes.

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Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems

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Milkweed Editions

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November 14, 2019

Two Poems

Liu Tsung-Yuan (translated from the Chinese by Red Pine)

A thousand mountains and not a bird flying ten thousand paths and not a single footprint an old man in his raincoat in a solitary boat fishes alone in the freezing river snow

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Written in Exile: The Poems of Liu Tsung-yuan

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Copper Canyon Press

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Translation

November 13, 2019

from Because What Else Could I Do

Martha Collins

another beach, the last one we walked together, hand in hand in the August sun, and I walked on while you rested there, and now it is winter and I am here with almost the last of you in my hand

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Because What Else Could I Do

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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Editor's Choice

November 11, 2019

Ars Poetica

Norman Dubie

It is almost polio season. The girls From the cigarette factories in Massachusetts Are still visiting the northern beaches. At midnight, the milky rubbers In the breakers are like a familiar invasion Of sea life.

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The Mercy Seat

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Copper Canyon Press

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What Sparks Poetry

November 8, 2019

[a mile in smog and a mile in fresh air]

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

i'm dreaming of bears scaling cityscapes and my old house on fire. i am wax paper beneath your breath.

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I'm Alive. It Hurts. I Love It.

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Big Lucks

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November 6, 2019

The Death of Truth

Timothy Donnelly

Don't give anything away. Only acquire. Lie constantly to lie better, live longer. Charge the devil through the nose to pitch tent in your heart. What you can't get, disvalue loudly in public. Not worth anything, like safety pins.

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The Problem of the Many

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Wave Books

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Editor's Choice

November 4, 2019

Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind

Brenda Hillman

—kept losing self control but how could one lose the self after reading so much literary theory? The shorter "i" stood under the cork trees, the taller "I" remained rather passive

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Extra Hidden Life, among the Days

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Wesleyan University Press

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What Sparks Poetry