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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.

Just a little green, like the nights when the northern lights perform

Chris Dombrowski

grip, so much like this white cloud that eludes the branches’ grasp before lofting west: the wind- blown work of her hands—long-traveled, adrift from parts celestial, a word I haven’t quite relinquished.

from the book Ragged Anthem / Wayne State University Press

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March 24, 2023

But not (excerpt)

Olivia Muenz

But don't let this get you. Down. Don't go all soft. On one now. I am frozen. In time. I am a big memory box. I am all meat. I can eat you alive if you let me.

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I Feel Fine

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Switchback Books

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March 23, 2023

When My Mother Returns as X

Sarah Audsley

When my mother returns, she is the bitter in my mouth I can’t dilute; she swells inside; she’s the branch from which birds will never fly.

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Landlock X: Poems

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Texas Review Press

Series

March 19, 2023

A Response to the 2018 IPCC Report

Katie Marya

light, make a sound. You wrote let me believe the work I do can bring the future into the room. Whether it does or not. Whether it does or not.

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Sugar Work

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Alice James Book

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March 17, 2023

Old Song

Patrick Phillips

Praise even death, or at least the dying, who taught us how to live. Praise you, someday, reading this. Praise light. Praise the wind.

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Song of the Closing Doors

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Penguin Random House

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March 16, 2023

the beauties: third dimension (excerpt)

Evie Shockley

desire blooms about your torso like bites coaxed open with gnawed-off nails, like charcoal roses.

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suddenly we

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Wesleyan University Press

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March 15, 2023

The Fly In the Bottle

Brian Tierney

as if to euthanize what might have been her soul, by which I mean her mind, each time piercing what'd already deflated.

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Rise and Float

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Milkweed Editions

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March 14, 2023

Coming of Age

Golden

Storytelling, in American standard definition: Rose gardens, tragedy, no Blacks faded in. Copper girls like me don't get a character arc. Some skulls...

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A Dead Name That Learned How to Live

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Game Over Books

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Editor's Choice

March 13, 2023

Landscape with Jeffers and the Connecticut River

Jennifer Atkinson

Who wouldn’t smile? Who doesn’t pity—and love— the woodchuck not only despite but for her like-human smugness? How can I not through her intercession forgive for now a few things human.

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The Thinking Eye

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Parlor Press

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What Sparks Poetry

March 12, 2023

Procession: Firsts & Lasts, by Ones & Threes, in the Schoolyard of Ghosts

Adrian Lürssen

Birds everywhere as well as garlands, bouquets of flowers. She believes in the coexistence of three different yet related worlds. However, I wasn't going into any of these. Well, I am not going to. The more complete figures looked a lot like people, which they were once. They did not smell.

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Human Is to Wander

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The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

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Editor's Choice

March 11, 2023

An Essay on War

Jennifer Chang

My mother was born in a war, outlasted wars I studied and wars I never heard of. Never saw. My whole life.

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The Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023 Edition (The Pushcart Prize Anthologies)

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Pushcart Prize