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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.

Afternoon in the House

Jane Kenyon

I turn on the radio. Wrong. Let's not have any noise in this room, except the sound of a voice reading a poem.

from the book The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon / Graywolf Press

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November 28, 2020

Self-Portrait in the New World Order

Reginald Shepherd

You’re walking down the street alone, absorbed in the anticipation of a lunchtime salad with that crusty olive bread you like so much, and suddenly you’re marching in formation in a crowd, it’s called a regiment. You seem to be a soldier this time, you learn to be at war.

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More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary Self-Portrait Poems

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Persea Books

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November 26, 2020

Already I

Choi Seungja (translated from the Korean by Won-Chung Kim & Cathy Park Hong)

Nobody raised me. I was nothing from the beginning, sleeping in a rat’s hole, nibbling on the flea’s liver, dying absentmindedly, in any old place.

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Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me

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Action Books

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Translation

November 25, 2020

My Delinquency

Samuel Amadon

Having to be so without having to be so, I take my seat at the bar. It's my manner. I'm willful. Absent. Crisp. And cold. I know where to point my eyes when speaking, when listening, when the check arrives. I'm having lunch today because I'm pretty civilized.

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Listener

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Solid Objects

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November 24, 2020

Dear Brown Girl,

Barbara Jane Reyes

They will say, your language lacks finesse, your words low. They will form air quotes with their white fingers, say something clever about color. They will corral you into their lowness, as you sully their well-lit high poetic annals. With your darkness.

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Letters to a Young Brown Girl

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BOA Editions

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November 23, 2020

Rug/Hydrangea

Alexander Vvedensky (translated from the Russian by Matvei Yankelevich)

I find it hard to be with minutes, they have completely confused me. It really upsets me terribly that I can be seen in reality. And then there’s this grudge that I bear, that I’m not a rug, nor a hydrangea.

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An Invitation for Me to Think

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New York Review Books

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Translation, What Sparks Poetry

November 22, 2020

Miracle

Elana Bell

I don’t know when I noticed the pale pink shoots sprouting from the submerged ends: wild, reaching roots, like ginseng, or the hair on an old woman’s chin. Then tiny green leaves began to appear at the tips, curling over themselves with the sheer effort of growing.

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Mother Country

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BOA Editions

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November 20, 2020

Americium

Éireann Lorsung

The nation contains intrinsic defects. Something has been sending out messages at the rate of decay. This varies. Because nò bòdy does nòt respond to radiation. It is concentrated on those who witnessed the explosions, and in the soil.

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The Century

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Milkweed Editions

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November 19, 2020

Aakuaksrak

Marie Tozier

One spring, sandhill cranes flew into sight. Having landed, they became hard to spot, Their bodies and wings dirt brown, The color of dead willow leaves.

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Open the Dark

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Boreal Books

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November 18, 2020

An Issue of Mercy #1

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Her daughter would speak of water, bowl, sun— light arriving, light gone— sometime after the nice white lady paid and named her for the slave ship.

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The Age of Phillis

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Wesleyan University Press

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November 17, 2020

Tree

Jorie Graham

Today on two legs stood and reached to the right spot as I saw it choosing among the twisting branches and multifaceted changing shades, and greens, and shades of greens, lobed, and lashing sun, the fig...