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Today’s Feature: Editorial Board on Poems of the Year, 2025 Read here: poems.com/features/wha...
Poetry Daily's Editorial Board on Poems of the Year, 2025
The poem lies on the white page, an arrangement of bare sticks and bright stones, riven and ribboned by their own histories.
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Today's Featured Poem: "The Last Himalayan Beekeeper" by Samyak Shertok from No Rhododendron published by the University of Pittsburgh Press Read here: poems.com/poem/the-las...
The Last Himalayan Beekeeper
Let it be said Ama was the last Himalayan beekeeper.
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Today's Featured Poem: "Preparing the Body" by Monika Herceg, translated from the Croatian by @marinaveverec.bsky.social from Closed Season published by @sandorfpassage.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/prepari...
Preparing the Body
carcinomas slumber under the unkind nurses' tongues
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Monika Herceg’s “Preparing the Body” from Closed Season (tr. Marina Veverec) is featured @poetrydaily.bsky.social today. poems.com/poem/prepari...
Preparing the Body
carcinomas slumber under the unkind nurses' tongues
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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 Read here: poems.com/poem/english...
English Language Assimilation as a Bite of Sashimi
it tastes like my own tongue salt and flesh
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Swimming versus Drowning” by Sihle Ntuli from Owele published by uHlanga Press Read here: poems.com/poem/swimmin...
Swimming versus Drowning
the bottom of the ocean could well be the place for the body's eternal sleep
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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 Read here: poems.com/poem/reflect...
Reflection
Yesterday, I handed all my poems to my publisher. I feel like I handed him my head
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Mistranslation” by @ariacurtis.bsky.social from The Sewanee Review, Spring 25 Read here: poems.com/poem/mistran...
Mistranslation
hair a natural satellite his hands a gentle orbit
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Today's Featured Poem: "This Animal" by Aracelis Girmay from Green of All Heads published by Boa Editions, Ltd. Read here: poems.com/poem/this-an...
This Animal
By what do I feel she is a woman rat
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Today’s Featured Poem: [I've wanted to ask for a long time...] by Anna Malihon, translated by Olena Jennings from from Girl with a Bullet published by World Poetry Books Read here: poems.com/poem/ive-wan...
[I've wanted to ask for a long time...]
I've wanted to ask for a long time: what is is like for you on that side of the war?
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Today’s Featured Poem: “1. what warrants a war? (compilation)” by Hasib Hourani from Rock Flight published by @ndbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/1-what-...
1. what warrants a war? (compilation)
i am in front of a mirror. and by that i mean i am the cattle egret in the yellow dumpster and i am also a passenger in a black minivan looking at the cattle egret in the yellow dumpster.
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Stacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your Bones” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi from The New Economy published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/stackin...
Stacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your Bones
Not an optimist. I lie awake at night and say the name of everyone on the block and for three blocks over
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Today’s Featured Poem: [we will weave the earth this dress of time...] by Cody-Rose Clevidence from The Household of Earthly Nature published by Roof Books Read here: poems.com/poem/we-will...
[we will weave the earth this dress of time...]
when I speak, slowly, I want the universe to listen.
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Craft Talk” by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi from Terror Counter published by Deep Vellum Read here: poems.com/poem/craft-t...
Craft Talk
I am interested in frightening you. I do not want to be alone anymore.
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Today's Featured Poem: "Mundane Song" by Rickey Laurentiis from Death of the First Idea published by Knopf Read here: poems.com/poem/mundane...
Mundane Song
You go outside and the Trees don't know You're Black.
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Today's Featured Poem: "Girl Work" by Zefyr Lisowski from Girl Work published by Noemi Press Read here: poems.com/poem/girl-wo...
Girl Work
He called me. He did what he was supposed to do.
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Today’s Featured Poem: “One Thanksgiving Day” by Pat Parker from Essential Poems published by Sinister Wisdom Read here:
One Thanksgiving Day
One Thanksgiving Day Priscilla Ford got into her Lincoln Continental
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Matryoshka” by Temperance Aghamohammadi from Battalion Shaped Girl published by Discount Guillotine Read here:
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Last Century, Last Week: Holy Will (Ekphrastic)” by Ajanaé Dawkins with an image by Ky Smiley from Blood-Flex published by New Delta Review Read here:
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Today's Featured Poem: "13 Questions for the Next Economy" by @utopiaminus.bsky.social from 13 Questions for the Next Economy published by @noemipress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/13-ques...
13 Questions for the Next Economy
Spark of dry grass, Russian thistle in flames, or butterflies bobbing as if pulled by unseen strings through the alleyway.
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Today's Featured Poem: [come we know the water…] by Sabine Huynh, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell from Speaking Skin published by Black Square Editions Read here: poems.com/poem/come-we...
[come we know the water...]
come we know the water the rain waits for us
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Today's Feature: @martheaus.bsky.social On Film Ekphrasis Read here: poems.com/features/wha...
Martheaus Perkins On Film Ekphrasis
There is a special tension within ekphrasis between our urge to describe an artwork by its own terms and the urge to reveal how the artwork subjectively affects us. In other words, there is a push and...
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Today's Featured Poem: "Post-Algonquin" by Ashley D. Escobar from GLIB published by Changes Press Read here: poems.com/poem/post-al...
Post-Algonquin
We are in the shop. The perfect functional beverage should have zero sugar or sugar alternatives.
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Today's Featured Poem: "水客" by Caroline M. Mar from Water Guest published by @uwiscpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-wat...
水客
people ask me ask people who look like me look like anything but the blankness of a page
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Burning Down the Waffle House” by Danny Caine from @barrelhouse.bsky.social, issue 25 Read here: poems.com/poem/burning...
Burning Down the Waffle House
where is the line between a good tip and a messiah complex?
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Today’s Featured Poem: “The Coming of Fox” by Bernardo Wade from The Sewanee Review, Winter 2025 Read here: poems.com/poem/the-com...
The Coming of Fox
my father glides over & you let him steal your bright flag of fur
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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 Read here: poems.com/poem/reading...
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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