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Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
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Today's Featured Poem:

"...and so History Constantly Dwindles" by Carrie Hunter from The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself published by Roof Books

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"...and so History Constantly Dwindles"
Being asked to explain a poem is like being asked to explain an explanation.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"The Last Sea Cow's Testimony" by Brandon Kilbourne from Natural History published by Graywolf Press

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The Last Sea Cow's Testimony
every cow, otter, and seal had to learn survivor's wisdom: trade your curiosity for fear.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Home Page" by Douglas Piccinnini from Beautiful, Safe & Free published by New Books

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Home Page
today's plasmic overworked sunset
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November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“If I Cared” by Sid Ghosh from yellow flower gills me whole published by Milkweed Editions

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If I Cared
I am yoked to beast of burden, ox. Plowing
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November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"The Bright Invisible" by Michael Robins from The Bright Invisible published by Saturnalia Books

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The Bright Invisible
the brisk & wondrous possibility when we lean into the sun, close our eyes & describe for each other what colors appear.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Reflection" by Asmaa Azaizeh, translated by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha from Heaven Looks Like Us published by @haymarketbooks.org

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Reflection
Yesterday, I handed all my poems to my publisher. I feel like I handed him my head
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November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Today’s Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: Matthew Gellman on "Snipe" from Beforelight published Boa Editions, LLC

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Snipe
His low, madrone-colored drumming skitters over the knotted tuft of marsh like a siren skimming the unkempt songs on the insides of our throats thirsting for sun.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“The Teachings of Naranja” by Mary B. Moore from from Best Spiritual Literature, vol. 9, published by Orison Books

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The Teachings of Naranja
the earth we are burning gives the blossoming scent of oranges
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November 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“The Terrible Feast of Love: Etymology of Abel” by I.S. Jones from Bloodmercy published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

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The Terrible Feast of Love: Etymology of Abel
Give a girlchild an axe and she comes to understand beheadings can be pleasure too.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Ash Keys" by Michael Longley from Ash Keys published by Wake Forest University Press

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Ash Keys
I am herding cattle there As a boy, as the old man Following in his footsteps
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October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Summer in Biddle City, 2001” by Marianne Chan from Leaving Biddle City published by Sarabande Books

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Summer in Biddle City, 2001
Our family talked all the time about the end of the world. Our father would say, During the Three Days of Darkness, if you hear your mother outside, don't open the door, okay? It isn't your mother, ok...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"7:28 PM: above the river the bridge the bridge" by Abi Pollokoff from Night Myths •• Before the Body published by @redhenpress.bsky.social

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7:28 PM: above the river the bridge the bridge
& then there's a bee in the hand:
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October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

[You came with strangers to trample the grass] by Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call from Stolen Flower published by @yalepress.bsky.social

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[You came with strangers to trample the grass]
You think the world too weak
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October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Today's Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social on "Even Now After All These Years" from Tic Tic Tic published by Cornerstone Press

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Even Now After All These Years
For love of Shakespeare, we speak starling, our mouths black with feathers. I want to dance. But you refuse to lead. Isn’t that a form of backstepping, of creating space between us? In the wingspan o...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"The Bear" by @amiewhittemore.bsky.social from Nest of Matches published by @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

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The Bear
The bear came to me. I did not ask. I did not want.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Swimming versus Drowning” by Sihle Ntuli from Owele published by uHlanga Press

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Swimming versus Drowning
the bottom of the ocean could well be the place for the body's eternal sleep
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October 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Sonnet 21” by Immanuel of Rome, translated by Yehudah Cohn from Mine is the Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets of Immanuel of Rome published by CPL Editions

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Sonnet 21
Mine is the golden tongue that none can quell.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"English Language Assimilation as a Bite of Sashimi" by Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen from Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic published by @weslpress.bsky.social

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English Language Assimilation as a Bite of Sashimi
it tastes like my own tongue salt and flesh
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October 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

“Reading Virginia Woolf in a Women in Literature Class at Bergen Community College" by Carlie Hoffman from One More World Like This World published by @fourwaybooks.bsky.social

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Reading Virginia Woolf in a Women in Literature Class at Bergen Community College
I know it’s October because I wear shoes without socks. The air is good to me & I sweat less through my shirts.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“The Coming of Fox” by Bernardo Wade from The Sewanee Review, Winter 2025

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The Coming of Fox
my father glides over & you let him steal your bright flag of fur
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October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Today’s Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: Matthew Rohrer on "Poem for Friends” published by Poetry Magazine

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Poem for Friends
How beautiful to lie down not to be the dead ones there their eye sockets filled with dirt nothing is theirs anymore
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October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Burning Down the Waffle House” by Danny Caine from @barrelhouse.bsky.social, issue 25

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Burning Down the Waffle House
where is the line between a good tip and a messiah complex?
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October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"水客" by Caroline M. Mar from Water Guest published by @uwiscpress.bsky.social

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水客
people ask me                      ask people who look like me                   look like anything but the blankness of a page
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October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Two Poems" by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Spring Ulmer from Exercises 1950-1960 published by Ugly Duckling Presse

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Two Poems
In the open corner of the courtyard, in soapy water,
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October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Carolina Triptych" by Tangie Mitchell from Poetry Project Newsletter, #280, Spring 2025

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Carolina Triptych
I couldn’t leave this land If I left it. I am honey-scented. Thick-throated Sparrow, heavy with treesong.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM