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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.

I Have a Fever and Its Name is God

G. C. Waldrep

I have a fever and its name is God. The nurses come in shifts and worship it. All around me the land suffers from the loss of love’s handkerchief. Children sing brackish rhymes in the lowest schools.

from the book The Earliest Witnesses / Tupelo Press

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June 13, 2021

Two Poems

A. M. Juster

The caution tape is tattered and flapping in the wind. Birds guard the median where glass and steel lie shattered.

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Wonder & Wrath

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Paul Dry Books

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June 12, 2021

{All I Wanted Was Everything}

Rosebud Ben-Oni

You say you know the reason why Archimedes died tracing circles in the sand & how you’ll go out this way, a man too in love with unifying theorem & consequence.

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If This Is the Age We End Discovery

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Alice James Books

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June 11, 2021

Sand & Silt

Kayleb Rae Candrilli

In the beginning, there was a boy who touched me as he shouldn't have. His hands around my ankles—claustrophobic— a plot of cattails on the water's black silt.

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Water I Won't Touch

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Copper Canyon Press

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June 10, 2021

from “Echo”

Raymond Antrobus

Gaudí believed in holy sound and built a cathedral to contain it, pulling hearing men from their knees as though Deafness is a kind of Atheism. Who would turn down God?

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The Perseverance

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Tin House

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June 8, 2021

Pasty in Ontonagon that faces away from Keweenaw Peninsula nearby, will skip

Moheb Soliman

Ore of mine grouse may brood and rain pat sand and grasses ask us blasters-through to sit a min before their world blows over mine of ore for some for some it's sand all the way down

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HOMES

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Coffee House Press

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June 7, 2021

Self-Portrait As Mango

Tarfia Faizullah

This mango was cut down by a scythe that beheads soldiers, mango that taunts and suns itself into a hard-palmed fist only a few months per year, fattens while blood stains green ponds.