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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. Poems.com
Today's Feature: "On the Day After the Bois Caïman Ceremony, César Vallejo Spoke" by Sony Ton-Aime from Konbit published by @cmupress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/on-the-...
On the Day After the Bois Caïman Ceremony, César Vallejo Spoke
Tomorrow is already gone and yesterday, well, yesterday will wear its own green coat.
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Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Rick Barot on his poem "The Field" Read here: poems.com/poem/the-fie...
The Field
Who are they for whom the grass is a bed? Who are those others, elsewhere, sleeping in the open back of a truck
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Today's Feature: "We built this city" by Alex Keramidas from Galetto Fu published by Antiphony Press Read here: poems.com/poem/we-buil...
We built this city
The kind ones admire the water The wise ones admire the mountains I am mostly interested in this city. San Francisco playing itself.
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Today's Feature: "Homegoing" by Mubanga Kalimamukwento from Another Mother Does not Come When Yours Dies published by Wayfarer Books Read here: poems.com/poem/homegoi...
Homegoing
before abandoning my fatherland/ i must first dignify this departure with marble and granite/ bribe someone to chip Here lies a beloved beneath the carving of an angel
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Today's Feature: "My Mother Sings of How She Got Her Education" by Keith Jarrett from Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied published by Bad Betty Press Read here: poems.com/poem/my-moth...
My Mother Sings of How She Got Her Education
at the cross, she catch wise, like the cedars of Lebanon
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Today's Feature: "Wombats Are Not Household Pets" by Azad Ashim Sharma from Boiled Owls published by Nightboat Books Read here: poems.com/poem/wombats...
Wombats Are Not Household Pets
The fruits of my recovery are fresh with sterile seeds I spit them on concrete steps they melt in the sun,
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Today's Feature: "Erosion" by Arielle Hebert from Bottom Feeders published by Black Lawrence Press Read here: poems.com/poem/erosion/
Erosion
Geologists say that in ten years, Florida’s coastlines will be underwater. Oceanfront properties will drown in the wake of global warming,
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Today's Feature: "Ode on the Wildest Word" by Barbara Hamby from Burn published by @upittpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/ode-on-...
Ode on the Wildest Word
jelly, your high-risk dirigible in the bomb-alicious sky filled with lies, the radio highs that last three minutes tops, the shuck and jiv...
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Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Jane Huffman on "Beauty is made my fear" published in Midway Journal (Volume 20, Issue 2) Read here: poems.com/poem/jane-hu...
Beauty is made my fear
When the text emerges with a mark missing, I kiss it. The error ablates
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Today's Feature: "No Rain" by Liza Katz Duncan from Drought / Diagnosis published by @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/no-rain/
No Rain
We come to a clearing, thunderclouds above an open field. Expecting rain, we watch instead the grasses browning, streambed slowly...
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Today's Feature: "Agnostic at 47" by M. Soledad Caballero from Flight Plan published by @redhenpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/agnosti...
Agnostic at 47
At church I sit alone, not ready for the faith, luscious around me.
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Today's Feature: [Is there one God?] by Azra Abbas, translated by Daisy Rockwell from Sleep Journeys published by @uwiscpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/is-ther...
[Is there one God?]
we shouldn't listen for the sound of footsteps.
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Today's Feature: "Three Birds" by Robin Walter from Little Mercy published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/three-b...
Three Birds
I catalog each harm I've ever made with my hands
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Today's Feature: "Elegy for Norman Dubie" by Katie Berta from The Georgia Review, Summer 2026 (Vol. 80, No. 2) Read here: poems.com/poem/elegy-f...
Elegy for Norman Dubie
During sex, I often think of a fact I heard, which is that during sex, our impulse toward disgust is diminished.
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Today's Feature: "COURAGED! by the body as a quiver of arrows" by @tommywyattblake.bsky.social from Mutually Assured Destruction published by @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/courage...
COURAGED! by the body as a quiver of arrows
the body as toyhacked. body as premature goreform, a marionette of blood and fluid and sinewy muck.
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Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: @utopiaminus.bsky.social on her poem, "Further Exercises" from 13 Questions for the Next Economy published by @noemipress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/further...
Further Exercises
Write a poem that binds you and your reader as tightly as the zip ties encircling protestors’ wrists. Use empathy, compassion, complicity.
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Today's Feature: "July 19" by Lisa Fishman from One Big Time published by Wave Books Read here: poems.com/poem/july-19/
July 19
& coming back, always within 12 feet of me but in water if I approach she goes under
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Today's Feature: "Ends" by Noa Micaela Fields from E published by Nightboat Books Read here: poems.com/poem/ends/
Ends
Ends, if impossible, unimaginable I can't trust "there there" mimetic hit-and-run mouth
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Today's Feature: "Paestum" by @christopherbakken.bsky.social from Driving the Beast published by Louisiana State University Press Read here: poems.com/poem/paestum/
Paestum
arrowheads of swallows slicing a wind strong enough to set their wings on fire, but not the weather so much as the place itself,
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Today's Feature: "Sister, Only You Know This Precision" by Isabelle Correa from Good Girl and Other Yearnings published by @isabellewrites.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/sister-...
Sister, Only You Know This Precision
of fear, how easy it eats away at every yellow memory
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Today's Feature: "The Occupant Revisits the Rooms of Her Life and Arrives at a Late Understanding" by Jennifer Maier from The Occupant published by @upittpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-occ...
The Occupant Revisits the Rooms of Her Life and Arrives at a Late Understanding
Sometimes she imagines it will happen this way / that it has happened already, and she stands remembering
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Today's Feature: "Eulogy for the Dairy Queen on Market" by Marina Carreira from Dead Things and Where to Put Them published by @cavankerrypress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/eulogy-...
Eulogy for the Dairy Queen on Market
Beloved, your big plastic sign once a bat signal to all sad girls and their grandfathers in Ironbound
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Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Alice Miller on Ghayath Almadhoun’s “If We Lived in a Virtual World” Read here: poems.com/poem/if-we-l...
If We Lived in a Virtual World
If we lived in a virtual world I would have turned off the war like you turn off the television But we were born into a bitch of a world
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Today's Feature: "Bloom and Bloom" by Catherine Abbey Hodges from Empty Me Full published by @gunpowderpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/bloom-a...
Bloom and Bloom
Here I’d assumed one poem about jacaranda blossoms underfoot would be my lifetime quota. But that misses the point, since I know I won’t know till I’m well in...
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Today's Feature: "The Mayor" by Thea Brown from Loner Forensics published by Northwestern University Press Read here: poems.com/poem/the-may...
The Mayor
What was your question? My official statement: a single sprouted leaf on...
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Today's Feature: "In Which Water Becomes Audible" by @talkinghyphae.bsky.social from Aurora Comes Online published by Game Over Books Read here: poems.com/poem/in-whic...
In Which Water Becomes Audible
As in would gender constructs Be a part of the deal?
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Today's Feature: "Kahalu’u Bay, Hawaii (A Companion History of Surfing)" by Joshua Bennett from We (The People of the United States) published by @penguinbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/kahaluu...
Kahalu'u Bay, Hawaii <br/><br/> (a companion history of surfing)<br/><br/>
Our ways with water are ancient & invincible:
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Today's Feature: "The Day After Tuesday" by Robert Bringhurst from On Occasion: Poems for the People published by Coach House Books Read here: poems.com/poem/the-day...
The Day After Tuesday
On the day when my used-to-be countrymen voted to throw their country away,
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