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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 6d

Today's Featured Poem:

"(FIG)" by Ahmad Almallah from Border Wisdom published by Winter Editions

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(FIG)

And the worst was discovering the fig trees in the city—their leaves die and dry at first contact with the cold.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s Featured Poem:

“Rule: Now rewrite from the perspective of the woman in the chair of Peter Blume's 1932 painting Light of the World” by Katrine Øgaard Jensen, translated by Andkjær Olsen, Nakayasu, Machado, Cunningham, Badji, & CAConrad

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Rule: Now rewrite from the perspective of the woman in the chair of Peter Blume's 1932 painting <em>Light of the World.</em>

a sphere of lightgrief bodydust and a wish

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s Featured Poem:

“Traceable Relation” by Kimberly Alidio from Traceable Relation published by @fonografeditions.bsky.social

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Traceable Relation

I want to go freely of so many pouches of what-ifs and later-ons to stumble in the bardo, losing what must be lost

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 9d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Chipping Sparrow" by Susan Howe published by Poetry Magazine

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Chipping Sparrow

On the subject of assurance I should have I should have

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 11d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Springtime Again" by Alison C. Rollins from Black Bell published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

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Springtime Again

When judgment comes, ain't nowhere to run. April snow is how time disciplines its children.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 21d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Schrödinger" by Katie Erbs published by @pinchjournal.bsky.social

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Schrödinger

It is my mother's turn in the box she is alive she is dead

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 20d

Today's Featured Poem:

"The Month When I Watch Joker Every Day" by Erica Dawson published in @commonmag.bsky.social

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The Month When I Watch Joker Every Day

The month is February and that means nothing because winter in Tampa is

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 19d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social

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Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian

lessons in methodology, how to pluck each detailed monument to her private suffering from its noxious and stifling stem.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 18d

Today's Featured Poem:

"tryouts" by Gary Jackson from Small Lives published by @unmpress.bsky.social

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tryouts

The boy's brown fingers hold tight to your emblem, leave wet impressions on your chest.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 16d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Bangkok Traffic" by Nida Sophasarun from Novice published by Louisiana State University Press

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Bangkok Traffic

The cars line up in the night's waiting room, and it's another hour before I get out of the car

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 15d

Today's Featured Poem:

"It's So Idyllic Here" by Sasha Debevec-McKenney from Joy is My Middle Name published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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It's So Idyllic Here

until you realize no one else cares about the new Mission Impossible movie. It’s safe to walk alone at night.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 14d

Today's Featured Poem:

"I bring poets from Lviv, Ukraine to my college class in Arkansas" by Julia Kolchinsky from Parallax published by @uarkpress.bsky.social

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I bring poets from Lviv, Ukraine to my college class in Arkansas

through the computer screen a loud bang a bomb a fist perhaps

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 25d

Today's Featured Poem:

"I Went Out to Hear" by Leila Chatti from Wildness Before Something Sublime published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

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I Went Out to Hear

In the absence of anything else, my own breathing became obscene.

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elena @elenamacdonald.bsky.social · 22d

go read @daybreakjung.bsky.social’s fantastic essay, “A Trivial Translator of Trivial Poems”! poems.com/features/wha...

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 24d

Today's Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: @daybreakjung.bsky.social on "Nurse II"

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Nurse II

Even though it seems unlikely that I see myself in their lines, I do,

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 14

Today's Featured Poem:

"So Grateful I Turn to the Art" by @henkaipantomime.bsky.social published by Fence Books

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So Grateful I Turn to the Art

I'm so sacred the only thing left is the altar

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 15

Congratulations to Arthur Sze for being named the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate!

We featured his poem, Papyrus Pantoum, in April.

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Papyrus Pantoum

under a rising moon, we step along a ridge of white sand—

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 26d

Today's Featured Poem:

"107 Water Street" by @henricole.bsky.social from The Other Love published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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107 Water Street

September is a time to feel the light, write, scratch out, write, nap, walk, begin again.

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A Quiet Root @aquietroot.bsky.social · May 30

simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social

Birth Control - phoebe

Rebecca Hawkes “why suck the strap” why look at a sunset. why listen to your favourite song. why stop to smell the flowers. come on now – Tumblr user @bloodpups To live ethically in the present moment...

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

🌀SUBS OPEN🌀
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phoebe journal @phoebejournal.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hi everyone:
There’s a new submission deadline for phoebe, on October 8! Thank you for understanding and make sure to make note of the new date so that you can get your submissions in on time 🙂

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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social · Sep 9

Finding the right journals for your work. Writing a lit mag cover letter. Submitting to contests. Let's talk about it at Submit-a-Thon! Hosted by us and @phoebejournal.bsky.social, open to the GMU community. Sign up here: cglink.me/2d7/r2287792

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today's Featured Poem:

"[may rain]" by Masaoka Shiki & translated from Japanese by Abby Ryder-Huth from The Glass Clouding published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social

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[may rain]

and the hills of

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today's Featured Poem:

"Ouroboros" by Isabelle Baafi from Chaotic Good published by @weslpress.bsky.social

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Ouroboros

Hunger made me; carved me in its image: hands with which to touch, touch,

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today's Featured Poem:

"Kitchen Window" by Richard Siken published by the American Poetry Review

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Kitchen Window

Several men were not my father. Some I avoided, some I wanted to impress.

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