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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 Bell System

Adam O. Davis

Goodnight—Mary, Jane, Pat. Sleep tight, you sweet operators of America, your voices strung like laundry across this nation drowsy with a full century's worth of light.

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September 17, 2021

Rachel’s Chair

Katie Farris

Once, many years ago, we made love at a friend’s house. We were over- night guests, not perverts (on the whole) . . .

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A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving

Publisher

Beloit

Series

September 16, 2021

Nude Descending a Staircase

Shangyang Fang

Her cardamom-like nipples bloomed in the mahogany frame of the mirror. She felt at ease. Perhaps she thought I was still too young? That I was more of a boy than a man? Or perhaps she saw that day, by the rosemary alley, a boy kissing my lips. He tasted like blueberries.

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Burying the Mountain

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Series

September 15, 2021

Hai-Kai “From the Notebooks, 1922-1945”

Paul Valéry (translated from the French by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody)

I was waiting for who knows whom? (You? or day—or—) A thought came.

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The Idea of Perfection

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Series

Translation

September 13, 2021

Everything that Acts Is Actual

Denise Levertov

The flawed moon acts on the truth, and makes an autumn of tentative silences.

Book

The Collected Poems Of Denise Levertov

Publisher

New Directions

Series

What Sparks Poetry

September 12, 2021

A WORD FOR IT

Rachelle Toarmino

there are fresh coats of paint and a world in my mouth! adhesive doubts live in the hairs on my tongue!

Book

That Ex

Publisher

Big Lucks Books

Series

September 10, 2021

21. Parallel Movement of the Hands [1]

John Ashbery

There was an unshapely tuft where the chimes rang and forever after it was solid wall. Nothing so became it as its tiresome leave-taking.

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Parallel Movement of the Hands

Publisher

HarperCollins

Series

September 9, 2021

Let’s Get Acquainted

Adrian Matejka

An altruistic jones for affection & touching despite my engineering. So much I didn't matter as much. I once had a heart but sold it for sauce. I once had some semi-glossed gators but lost them in the static.

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Somebody Else Sold the World

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Series

September 8, 2021

Portrait of an Administrator with Strategic Plan and Office Supplies

Jehanne Dubrow

To sit on her couch was to be swallowed by upholstery, plush muffling of cushions from which it was difficult to rise.

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Wild Kingdom

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press

Series

September 6, 2021

from “Summer Grass”

Roo Borson

The magpie recites Scriabin in early morning as a mating song, and home is just a place you started out, the only place you still know how to think from, so that that place is mated to this by necessity as well as choice . . .

Book

Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Series

What Sparks Poetry

September 5, 2021

Life Study

Maureen N. McLane

not to honor the upsurge as the dog frisks in the street and the students smoke & glower & parse their way into situations they forget in a decade