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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.

Midnights: La jetée

Michael Palmer

Will the fires yes the fires will consume us. We will scatter our own ashes, scatter them in a spiral between lake and sky, cadmium yellow sky.

from the book Little Elegies for Sister Satan / New Directions

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August 2, 2021

Virginia Slim

Taylor Johnson

Young buck tapping its velvet against the bathroom window in the morning. The land leaning in the pines . . .

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Inheritance

Publisher

Alice James Books

Series

What Sparks Poetry

July 31, 2021

Eunuch of Industry

Rosie Stockton

what if we kissed in the Amazon locker? crude oil massage, your hand lotion on my choke points your most fresh sacrifice boxed like Blue Apron

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Permanent Volta

Publisher

Nightboat Books

Series

July 29, 2021

True Value

Liz Howard

The value in a dead woman is that she cannot be killed again or cross-examined. The value in being the dead woman at trial is the Crown doesn't represent you regardless.

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Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Series

July 28, 2021

Drawings of a Red-billed Pigeon

Sara Lupita Olivares

you can see only the shape of the red-billed pigeon in the bathroom window, opaqueness a distance the yard repeats.

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Migratory Sound

Publisher

The University of Arkansas Press

Series

July 26, 2021

running around & away

S*an D. Henry-Smith

your hand at its heaviest is still a gentle wind ushering a sharp delivery sharp intellect sharp sensitivity to the order & disarray. you make me weep w/ the weather w/ the weathered w/ the mothered w/ the memory.

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Wild Peach

Publisher

FuturePoem

Series

What Sparks Poetry

July 24, 2021

The Lake

Robert VanderMolen

Dry snow, the pines scaly As deer parade single file As if on duty, declining The ridge without effort

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Skin

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Series

July 21, 2021

Event Horizon

Fady Joudah

Stars hang on a rim, their pulsating shudder’s an echinoderm growing back its limbs in the abyssal depths . . .

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Tethered to Stars

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Series

July 20, 2021

Back to the Village

Reginald Gibbons

It’s dark when we arrive at the doorway where I spoke my long-ago goodbye as the rooster was singing one of his epics. The door’s locked. I call out and there’s no answer.