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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.

After

David Baker

We came to the island. We stayed in the house. Rain and sun. Bougainvillea. Pink cedar. How many shadows slipped along walls or whetted the leaves of century plants?

from the book Swift: New and Selected Poems / W. W. Norton & Company

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October 26, 2020

Alcman 89

Alcman (translated from the Greek by Dan Beachy-Quick)

They are sleeping, mountain-heads, headlands, and the gullies, too— the fallen leaves and the tribe of slow-footed creatures the dark earth grows—

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Stone-Garland

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Series

Translation

October 24, 2020

Ode to Hushpuppy

Joy Priest

how long we done lived— us-folk, for whom heaven is live broadcast. our down-at-the-heel place. filthy & barefoot.

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Horsepower

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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October 22, 2020

from The Orphans

Don Mee Choi

It was so cold that my fingers were ready to snap off, but I still went over to my friend’s house to play. Then I heard a machine gun and saw a swarm of soldiers. They looked like ants against the snow. Come out! they shouted. We will kill you all! But my friend and I kept on playing.

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DMZ Colony

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Wave Books

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October 21, 2020

ghosts

Brendan Joyce

-- drunk & under age, every warehouse empty like my pockets, every cavity in this city's foaming mouth, every inch of the continued occupation of this continent; the ghosts of a failed general strike

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Love & Solidarity

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Grieveland

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October 19, 2020

Star Thistle

Brian Teare

from fifty miles away, a thousand feet below the field I love, I tried to remember how spring undoes the year like a knot : how winter hay’s flat thin cover turns gold, gray beneath rain, keeps close to ground the germinal heat :

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Companion Grasses

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Omnidawn

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What Sparks Poetry

October 18, 2020

T’s Law

Adam Fagin

If among the waxwing's flight, I describe unbroken light, I describe water among the sleep of birds. A wingbeat governing swift fluidities of form.

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Furthest Ecology

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Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

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October 17, 2020

This Garden

Eavan Boland

Awake late at night what I see is faces, faces, their radiance. And realize I will never see them again.

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The Historians

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

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October 15, 2020

Flores para el Oído (Flowers for the Ear)

Blanca Varela (translated from the Spanish by Carlos Lara)

walking toward the street being jackhammered apart I felt the horror of spring of many flowers blooming in the air

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Rough Song

Publisher

The Song Cave

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Translation

October 14, 2020

Beach Glass

Jeffrey Harrison

A wall topped with shards of broken bottles runs along the lane that winds up the hill to this house above the Ligurian Sea not far from where the great poet lived.

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Between Lakes

Publisher

Four Way Books

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October 13, 2020

Social Death, an Address

Xandria Phillips

I write to you from the predicament of Blackness. You see, I’ve been here all my life and found, on the atomic level, it’s impossible to walk through most doorways.