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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.

[To the queer silence…]

Sarah J. Sloat

An erasure from Sarah J. Sloat's book of visual poetry, Hotel Almighty.

from the book Hotel Almighty / Sarabande Books

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January 23, 2021

After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly

Jane Wong

Hunger eats through the air like ozone. You ask: what does it mean to be rootless? Roots are good to use as toothpicks. You: how can you wake in the middle of a life? We shut and open our eyes like the sun shining on tossed pennies in a forgotten well.

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The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith & Spirit

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Orison Books

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January 22, 2021

Fiddle (A Duo)

Cherene Sherrard

Mouth organ at midnight.
One woman supine, another
quadrilles—all blush crinoline
and caramelized curls—in a swamp:
what slithers and steams, moss.

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Grimoire

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Autumn House Press

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January 21, 2021

A Permeable Membrane in the Mutable Cosmos

Kathryn Smith

Tell me again of the lepers who learn to shed their disastrous skin by eating the meat of vipers: something transmutable in the flesh. The ancients spent lifetimes considering the resurrection of irretrievable parts:

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Self-Portrait with Cephalopod

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Milkweed Editions

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January 20, 2021

I Hear America Singing

Walt Whitman

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work...

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The Complete Poems: Whitman

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Penguin Random House LLC

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January 19, 2021

Amateur Hour (What Do Sad Songs Remind You Of?)

Charlie Clark

To be serious is to have something unwavering inside you. And, oh, how I waver. I’d write anything so long as it was beautiful. It’s beautiful to touch either of my wife’s hands. My wife’s hands are warm as flagstones set out beneath the sun. When I touch them the ringing in my ears becomes the tuning of viola strings. I think it was something like this that made Andre Breton write “Free Union.”

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The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin

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Four Way Books

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January 15, 2021

Marked Safe

Pamela Sneed

I also want to thank Walmart and the trans person who worked behind the register when my mother worked there as a greeter. When eventually she was fired for wearing women's clothes, to my shock, my mother said, "That's unjust and I think it's discrimination."

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Funeral Diva

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City Lights Books

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January 14, 2021

The Thirteenth Labor

Jonathan Wells

For Hercules, the thirteenth labor, is allowing the mortal lovers to go back to their separate beds unreconciled, to leave well enough alone, to let their oaths uncouple from their stars, to abandon the strange planets to the idiosyncrasies of their orbits.

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Debris

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Four Way Books

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January 13, 2021

Miracle Fair

Wisława Szymborska (translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak)

Commonplace miracle: that so many commonplace miracles take place. The usual miracle: invisible dogs barking in the dead of night. One of many miracles: a small and airy cloud is able to upstage the massive moon.

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Map: Collected and Last Poems

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

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Translation

January 12, 2021

butch mercutio first time in drag at capulet ball

Shelley Feller

i bade him come & yeah, quoth he, dost thou fall upon thy face? & yeah, quoth i, then lay yr wormwood to my dug & in the sun, under dove-house wall, my lord dug & felt it bitter, pretty fool, with jest & gambol suck’d a big sore tooth ((tut tut tut)) i know the language, i pray thee come, knock and ENTER, & no sooner in but betook him to his legs & he was done

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Dream Boat

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Cleveland State University Poetry Center

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January 11, 2021

Resurrection

Abdulla Pashew (translated from the Kurdish by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse)

From time to time, sadness fills my throat and pain reaches its limit. Then, I wish to smash my life like a wine glass against a stone. But suddenly the gleam of the thread of a new idea...

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Dictionary of Midnight

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Deep Vellum

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Translation