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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.

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November 28, 2021

Enemy Slayer teaches the first horse laws to Lipans

Margo Tamez

Protector, Enemy Slayer, went to the stronghold place you know this today as the Guadalupe Mountains, over there.

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FATHER | GENOCIDE

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Turtle Point Press

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November 26, 2021

quietude, gaped earth, substantial loss

Asiya Wadud

the ferries encumber their own weight. they pass each other at close range. the unlikely vessels transmit their cargo. all the bodies carry on.

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No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body

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Nightboat Books

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November 24, 2021

Meditation on the Worth of Anything

Cynthia Dewi Oka

A tall man wipes ashes from his lips. “I’ll pay you,” he says. “If you’re worthy.” From the lamp of his skull, a steeple rises. Roaches seek warmth in the dead bells, while cherry blossoms burst their green corsets.

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Fire Is Not a Country

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Northwestern University Press

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November 23, 2021

Two Poems

Deborah Warren

Earth is his occupation, and the mole works the turf in his native breaststroke, swimming hallways into the sod—a geonaut

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Connoisseurs of Worms

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Paul Dry Books

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November 22, 2021

Salmon

Jorie Graham

They would not stop, resolution of will and helplessness, as the eye is helpless when the image forms itself, upside-down, backward, driving up into the mind, and the world unfastens itself from the deep ocean of the given. . . .

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Erosion

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Princeton University Press

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What Sparks Poetry

November 20, 2021

Winter Recipes from the Collective

Louise Glück

The tree seemed beautiful to me, not finished perhaps, still it was beautiful, the moss draped around its roots— I was not permitted to prune it but I held the bowl in my hands, a pine blowing in high wind like man in the universe.

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Winter Recipes from the Collective

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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November 19, 2021

You

Rafael Cadenas (translated from the Spanish by Sophie Cabot Black)

You appear, you undress, you enter the light, you wake the colors, you crown the waters . . .

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The Land of Mild Light

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Arrowsmith Press

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Translation

November 15, 2021

Petition

W. H. Auden

Prohibit sharply the rehearsed response And gradually correct the coward's stance; Cover in time with beams those in retreat That, spotted, they turn though the reverse were great;

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Collected Poems: W.H. Auden

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Vintage International

Series

What Sparks Poetry

November 14, 2021

Procedure

Jennifer Huang

I wear the gown wrong so I can't be touched. But the doctor, delicate in her asking, asks me To open. I am not accustomed to this gentle; I crush it. It is summer here.

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Return Flight

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

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November 13, 2021

Erbarme Dich

Maria Barnas (translated from the Dutch by Donald Gardner)

An Englishman with gorgeous eyes is tuning my piano. I’m going to do it very carefully, he says. Droplets and leaves are spilling from the elderberry bush in the corner of the garden, sir, like words from my mouth.

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Rinkeldekinkel: An Anthology of Dutch Poetry

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Milkweed Editions

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Translation