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 Book of the Dead Man (#46)

Marvin Bell

Oh pretty dogs that reap the rage of benefactors in good times. Oh dogs shorn of the outdoors, oh clipped, oh shaggy shaggy shaggy. The dead man's dog does not sit up and beg.

from the book Incarnate: The Collected Dead Man Poems / Copper Canyon Press

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December 10, 2019

Walk of Shame

James Cagney

Let me answer the question you have of me: No. You were my idol. Of course I don't know how to love but I know how to be shamed & no two tears fall or taste the same.

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Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory

Publisher

Nomadic Press

Series

December 9, 2019

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Emily Dickinson

I started Early – Took my Dog – And visited the Sea – The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me –

Book

The Essential Emily Dickinson

Publisher

Ecco

Series

December 6, 2019

All of the Plant is Edible

John Gosslee

The secret between us is where the tongue rests, the oxidation of enamel in the mouth, night after long night and I want to wake with the hands I know in my hair.

Book

Fish Boy

Publisher

Nomadic Press

Series

December 4, 2019

Outline (Derivative 1)

Amanda Berenguer (translated from the Spanish by Urayoán Noel)

Why this sand in amber and repose? This stone what? a soft grind? Desert body invading the sheet where I write the page where I'm signing the eagle, the book where I feather myself with pleasure.

Book

Materia Prima

Publisher

Ugly Ducking Presse

Series

Editor's Choice, Translation

December 3, 2019

Starting with a Line by Joyce Byers

Eric Tran

The stars knocked loose from God’s mouth

Book

The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer

Publisher

Autumn House Press

Series

December 2, 2019

From “Some Street Cries”

Marjorie Welish

I have lived and eaten simply. I have leaned against the shape of handsome choices. The almanac conceals a pasture you would like. The universe is cast in consequences.

Book

The Windows Flew Open

Publisher

Burning Deck Press

Series

What Sparks Poetry

December 1, 2019

How the Jellyfish Prospered

Shira Erlichman

There is no question like the body. I collect its fragments. My little butter knife / chip / chip/ chips. Angel folds her arms around me while I sift through blue freezer light.

Book

Odes to Lithium

Publisher

Alice James

Series

November 30, 2019

There Is No Beautiful Left

Billy-Ray Belcourt

there is no beautiful left last week i choked up every time i spoke this is the closest i'll get to speaking my language

Book

This Wound Is a World

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Series

November 29, 2019

Two Poems

Sara Mumolo

Writing is like a crouched wolverine pissing on the hood of a luxury car. About explaining advertising to a two-year-old. Not about the name Amazon. Or Uber. Not about the absurd. About explaining Oakland's tent cities to a three-year-old.

Book

Day Counter

Publisher

Omnidawn

Series

November 27, 2019

Extract from Syncope

Asiya Wadud

we don't know the provenance of our own materiality but we thought us luminous in that we were each born under the fabled light of some stars

Book

Syncope

Publisher

Ugly Ducking Presse

Series

Editor's Choice