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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.

A Fear Growing in My Heart

Celia Dropkin (translated from the Yiddish by Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, & Samuel Solomon)

A fear was growing in my heart: I smelled the putrid odor of my grave around me.

from the book The Acrobat / Tebot Bach

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December 1, 2022

On Eid We Slaughter Lambs & I Know Intimately the Color

Safia Elhillo

my loosened hair smells of coal floats over the backseat like smoke

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Girls That Never Die

Publisher

Penguin Random House

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November 30, 2022

She of the Rescue Centre Answered

Marianne Boruch

As for the magpies, their livers surely tried to clear, to strain the poison. Fast or slow, the birds, I bet— how many?—flew just fine for a while in screechy loops. Then to fall, to try up again. And failing.

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Bestiary Dark

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

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November 29, 2022

Toys Turned on a Lathe

Alice Fulton

Here in the north of north everything was formed by what ice did to the land, and darkness is redundant.

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Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

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November 28, 2022

Sister

Nicole Tong

when I meant Remember. You were there. You walked beside me each day.

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How to Prove a Theory

Publisher

Washington Writers' Publishing House

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What Sparks Poetry

November 24, 2022

The Post Human

Jorie Graham

Shade one more time under the tree you love. Shadow then shade. Its body like a speech the tree was finally allowed to make, coming free of night.

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[To] The Last [Be] Human

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

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November 23, 2022

On Coming Out at Seventeen

Sequoia Maner

Some girls dream of sunsets & of other girls Some girls dream of bursting beneath darkening sky Some girls dream of her body as book while Tasting the bitter of their own skins...

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Little Girl Blue: Poems

Publisher

Host Publications

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November 22, 2022

[i have taken a bite of this root]

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

i have taken a bite of this root pockets on paper openings on paper black screens...

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Exilee and Temps Morts

Publisher

University of California Press

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November 21, 2022

The Loose Pearl (excerpt)

Paula Ilabaca Núñez (translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky)

This is the gold chain. And this is my heart. There is nothing else left in these cravings, you won’t find anything else, the loose one would say while she was feeding the mares, giving them milk, manipulating the honey.