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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.

The Man Watching

Rainer Maria Rilke (translated from the German by Edward Snow)

I can see that the storms are coming by the trees, which out of stale lukewarm days beat against my anxious windows, and I can hear the distances say things

from the book The Book of Images / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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February 16, 2020

The manager talks about getting engaged

Jeff Kass

Sent down a student clearly unprepared to schlep seven pizzas (including one gluten-free) upstairs to the classroom, so I did it for him, an extra ten minutes of my time while another customer’s delivery camped in the car, and I don’t know what kind of class it was, possibly marketing, something in the how-to-make-money-by-lying-to-people genre.

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Teacher/Pizza Guy

Publisher

Wayne State Press

Series

February 14, 2020

Sent to the Monk

Mary Ruefle

The past has trudged to this one spot with a flashlight in its mouth

Book

Dunce

Publisher

Wave Books

Series

February 12, 2020

Black Snow

Carl Adamshick

I came home astonished by life being the same

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Birches

Publisher

Four Way Books

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Editor's Choice

February 11, 2020

The Blink Reflex

Rick Barot

I have this notion that if you live long enough, there are three or four great stories that you will have in your life.

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The Galleons

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Series

February 10, 2020

Anecdote

Tristan Tzara (translated from the French by Mary Ann Caws)

I am a horse I am a river I go on clumsily nevertheless I live

Book

"Approximate Man" & Other Writings

Publisher

Black Widow Press

Series

Translation, What Sparks Poetry

February 9, 2020

Dutch Elm Disease

Valencia Robin

...Was Milwaukee even Milwaukee? Is the Lincoln Park Bridge still there, do boys like Danny still climb over the rail, hug their bony knees to their narrow chests and plop into the river as if there's no way his parents could lose two children?