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.

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Lim Solah (translated from the Korean by Olan Munson & Oh Eunkyung)

Again I clasp the broken watch on my wrist and put on the flower print dress. I flop down into a flower garden flowerless.

from the book Grotesque Weather and Good People / Black Ocean

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September 24, 2022

The well

Lasse Söderberg (translated from the Swedish by Lars Gustaf Andersson & Carolyn Forché)

He who wants to remember, and is full of darkness himself, must stand by the brim of himself as by a well...

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The Forbidden Door: The Selected Poetry of Lasse Söderberg

Publisher

Arrowsmith Press

Series

Translation

September 23, 2022

Black Anguish

Harmony Holiday

we kept laughing uncontrollably now and the rain sounds steal drums as us forgetting to act stolen

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MAAFA

Publisher

Fence Books

Series

Editor's Choice

September 21, 2022

Vila Franca de Xira, May 8, 1994

Lauren Goodwin Slaughter

I came here for the question answered by the crowd's ovation: a man now, must I have blood on my face to be seen.

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Spectacle

Publisher

Panhandler

Series

September 20, 2022

Cadaver Lab

Eric Tran

He apologizes years after the incision healed, like the scar wasn't a lovely pink. I imagine the lights baring down on him, how so many lucky hands got to press against his skin.

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Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke

Publisher

Diode Editions

Series

September 19, 2022

Constantinople

Vasily Kamensky (translated from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky & Typography by Daniel Mellis)

An experimental poem by Vasily Kamensky that explores the spatial possibilities of the printed page.

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Tango with Cows: Translation, Facsimile, and Commentary

Publisher

Editions 42°

Series

Translation, What Sparks Poetry

September 18, 2022

Every Ending Should Make a Sound

C J Evans

Paint, old wool, the mountain. We should. Every reliquary, every fault, every grave should make a sound.

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LIVES

Publisher

Sarabande Books

Series

September 17, 2022

Everything

Rae Armantrout

The way nothing is quite true and everything bears repeating

Book

Finalists

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Series

September 15, 2022

Medusa

Diana Anphimiadi (translated from the Georgian by Jean Sprackland & Natalia Bukia-Peters)

my head hangs from my neck by a single hair then morning, and the pain of the healed wound and it starts all over again ...

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Why I No Longer Write Poems

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

Series

Translation

September 14, 2022

Second Morning in West Texas

Lao Yang (translated from the Chinese by Joshua Edwards & Lynn Xu)

The train carries away dream and hometown Morning and I Remain in Marfa

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Pee Poems

Publisher

Circumference Books

Series

Translation

September 13, 2022

Revelation

Sara Eliza Johnson

I am ready to be loved by any thing. For your love, I’d wash your feet, bake you bread, water your flowers when you’re away. I’d sleep outside with them, would pour blood straight from my wrist to feed them.

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Vapor

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

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Editor's Choice