Book Features

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 Great Plan B

Justyna Bargielska (translated from the Polish by Maria Jastrzębska)

Do you know what our odds are? Zero. But I've learnt to play for time

from the book The Great Plan B / Smokestack Books

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May 22, 2019

To a Human Skull

Hai-Dang Phan

Would you recognize your soul if you bumped into it?

Book

Reenactments

Publisher

Sarabande Books

Series

Editor's Choice

May 20, 2019

[Night, a street, a lamp, a chemist’s shop,]

Aleksandr Blok (translated from the Russian by Dimitri Obolensky)

Night, a street, a lamp, a chemist's shop, a meaningless and dim light.

Book

The Heritage of Russian Verse

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Series

Translation, What Sparks Poetry

May 19, 2019

Heliocentric

Keith S. Wilson

I'm striving to be a better astronaut,but consider where I'm coming from,

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Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love

Publisher

Copper Canyon

Series

May 18, 2019

Shark Fate

Mark Halliday

Curving through the currents undistracted with tailfin half as long as its body it watches for those whose luck has been absurd

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Losers Dream On

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Series

May 17, 2019

roadkill

t'ai freedom ford

oh deer, i am sorry for your roadside funeral—speeding procession of shock & pity we wonder how a deer dies-suicide?

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& more black

Publisher

Augury Books

Series

May 16, 2019

Self-Portrait as Scout Leader

Rebecca Hazelton

In the menageries trapped to my back, there are two of everything.

Book

Gloss

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Series

May 15, 2019

A Step Away from Them

Paul Legault

It’s my lunch hour, so I take the A for one stop to Dumbo where there are no cabs — but you.

Book

Lunch Poems 2

Publisher

Spork Press

Series

Editor's Choice

May 13, 2019

The Snow Man

Wallace Stevens

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

Book

Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry & Prose

Publisher

Library of America

Series

What Sparks Poetry

May 12, 2019

Theodora

Ursula K. Le Guin

I think how fine my mother was. Her doings and her things were lovable.

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So Far So Good

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Series

May 10, 2019

Driving to Santa Fe

Paisley Rekdal

Quick swim up through my headlights: gold eye a startle in black:

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Nightingale

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

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