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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.

Rain Falls Outside the Window

Yu Xiuhua (translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain)

—when I flick a speck of cigarette ash, another has arisen I love someone to death Another is in my belly Rain sounds different in different places

from the book Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm / Astra House

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June 27, 2022

Heritage Emissary

Threa Almontaser

As designated translator, I taste saffron, gold coins, a slight burning. Since I’ve returned, there has been less of me in English. Though return always meant measuring the earth’s door, tongue ozoned and still learning

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The Wild Fox of Yemen

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Graywolf Press

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What Sparks Poetry

June 25, 2022

Why I Like the Hospital

Tony Hoagland

Because it is all right to be in a bad mood there, slouching along through the underground garage...

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Turn Up the Ocean: Poems

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Graywolf Press

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June 24, 2022

Mosab

Mosab Abu Toha

My father gave me a difficult name. Inside it sit two letters that don’t exist in English.

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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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City Lights

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June 22, 2022

Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms

Hayan Charara

The trees alongside the fence bear fruit, the limbs and leaves speeches to you and me. They promise to give the world back to itself.

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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit

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Milkweed

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June 21, 2022

3.1 Mourning Verse, on the Death of Lajos Szuromi (excerpt)

Szilárd Borbély (translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet)

We are troubled if we must speak of death, which is merely a part of existence. It is not existence itself. It is nothing but a ray of light falling obliquely on the forking branches bending above the path.