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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.

What can I do with this feeling?

Rodney Terich Leonard

Some people don't schwa the A in her name, they won't ah it, like they do for ago & anonymous. Into secondhand enunciation, they dote on & long- chew the alphabet's first letter, its crunch-gristle, A-dele.

from the book Sweetgum & Lightning / Four Way Books

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May 10, 2021

Those Winter Sundays

Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

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Collected Poems: Robert Hayden

Publisher

Liveright Books

Series

What Sparks Poetry

May 9, 2021

Qualms

Lauren Camp

With wine, I went right to the open mouth, took it down, familiar with the charm of my own particular sin. It was as if I had already all the history of my two worlds, morning and later—

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Took House

Publisher

Tupelo Press

Series

May 8, 2021

(Possibility)

Valerie Mejer Caso (translated from the Spanish by Michelle Gil-Montero)

The sky in its ultramarine hour frames that tremendous, impossible moment when the stores close. The seamstresses turn to other seams.

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Edinburgh Notebook

Publisher

Action Books

Series

Translation

May 6, 2021

The Octagon House

Geoffrey Nutter

On our visit we stayed at the octagon house— and were sleepless in view of the eight-sided land. Uncombed grass webbed the sides of the angled veranda. And on one side of the eight-sided land the incandescent lanterns of the doll shops flickered on.

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Giant Moth Perishes

Publisher

Wave Books

Series

May 5, 2021

Down Jacket God

Moon Bo Young (translated from the Korean by Hedgie Choi)

God wears a massive down jacket. Humans are the countless duck feathers trapped inside, the poet writes. Sometimes a feather pokes out.

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Pillar of Books

Publisher

Black Ocean

Series

Translation

May 3, 2021

The Moose

Elizabeth Bishop

Moonlight as we enter the New Brunswick woods, hairy, scratchy, splintery; moonlight and mist caught in them like lamb’s wool on bushes in a pasture. The passengers lie back. Snores. Some long sighs. A dreamy divagation begins in the night, a gentle, auditory, slow hallucination....

Book

Poems

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Series

What Sparks Poetry

May 2, 2021

It’s a Daisy

Nikki Wallschlaeger

I, Nikki, as a contemporary woman, am bound to ask who’s spiraling in the faucet. If you keep no-lye relaxers on your hair past the suggested time frame, the original crimple pattern becomes more defiant. Memories won’t comfort me.

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Waterbaby

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Series

May 1, 2021

[Here on this edge I have had many diminutive visions.]

Diane Seuss

Here on this edge I have had many diminutive visions. That all at its essence is dove-gray. Wipe the lipstick off the mouth of anything and there you will find dove-gray. With my thumb I have smudged away the sky’s blue and the water’s blue and found, when I kicked it with my shoe, even the sand at its essence is pelican-gray. I am remembering Eden.

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frank: sonnets

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Series

April 30, 2021

Gifts from the dead

Toi Derricotte

Even when she was getting chemo twice a week, Lucille would go anywhere they asked—Australia, Alaska— carrying her thirty-pound purse, which she would never give up. No matter how we warned her, she did it for nothing! On her deathbed, she wouldn’t leave until her daughters promised, We’ll be all right. You can let go.

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"I": New and Selected Poems

Publisher

The University of Pittsburgh Press

Series

April 29, 2021

THE SOUND OF BLINDS BEING PULLED UP IS THE FIRST SOUND

Silvina López Medin

It’s in your hands: the weight of the slats. All slightly bent to one side. As someone that bends with their ear towards the other trying to hear more: what? Your grandmother, like your mother, could only hear 30% of all things.