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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.

Pines

James Richardson

It’s not so common, in this practical century, for lovers to pine away, and as our climate warms, pines are retreating higher, but late as it is, anyone sleepless will hear the sound of the wind thinning through pines as pained.

from the book For Now / Copper Canyon Press

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September 26, 2020

Pet

Rose McLarney

How long I watched, how I loved to watch, and how I tried to make him a little home. But what is wanted wants to leg it elsewhere, no matter.

Book

Forage

Publisher

Penguin Books

Series

September 25, 2020

Anodyne

Khadijah Queen

I wish I’d learned to take better care As if this world tried to love me A body I used up on hard ground, flowsy & sop-studded, misplacing words I keep to settle for pain

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Anodyne

Publisher

Tin House

Series

September 23, 2020

from Underworld Lit

Srikanth Reddy

With a wave of his hand, the card turns over once more, only now it is the Justice Card—a child's transitional object in need of mending, an oil well burning on the horizon, a scale model of the cooling universe.

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Underworld Lit

Publisher

Wave Books

Series

September 21, 2020

from “Agnes Varda: Here There & Then Now”

Cole Swensen

Landscape of evening shadowing the park Landscape of ventriloquist in nearby pavilion, the land itself a voice

Book

Art in Time

Publisher

Nightboat Books

Series

What Sparks Poetry

September 20, 2020

Primero Sueño, First Dream: On Crossing, A Whitmanesque

Desirée Alvarez

My horse is afraid of you and both of us are thirsty. Stone face, we crossed the seas from Spain, I've been riding for days past pyramids in Mexico.

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Raft of Flame

Publisher

Omnidawn

Series

September 19, 2020

Romance

Norman Dubie

A gray plate of steaming mussels and a draught saucer of butter with floating slivers of garlic— Van Gogh coughs an affirmation at his brother who puts his brown cigarette on the edge of the table— he walks down the long street.

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Robert Schumann Is Mad Again

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Series

September 16, 2020

Touch the Earth (once again)

Juan Felipe Herrera

this is what the cotton truck driver does: this is what the tobacco leaf roller does: this is what the washer-woman & the laundry worker does: this is what the grape & artichoke worker does: not to mention the cucumber workers —