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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 · 6d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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Springtime Again

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 16d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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Schrödinger

The Month When I Watch Joker Every Day

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 15d

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 is February and that means nothing because winter in Tampa is

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 14d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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

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 · 13d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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tryouts

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 · 11d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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Bangkok Traffic

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 · 10d

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

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 9d

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

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 20d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
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I Went Out to Hear

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

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elena @elenamacdonald.bsky.social · 17d

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 · 19d

Today's Feature:

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

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Nurse II

So Grateful I Turn to the Art

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 27d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/so-grat...

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

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 26d

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

We featured his poem, Papyrus Pantoum, in April.

Read here:
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Papyrus Pantoum

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 21d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/107-wat...

107 Water Street

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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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

phoebejournal.com

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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

Read here:
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[may rain]

and the hills of

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

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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

Read here:
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Ouroboros

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

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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

Read here:
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Kitchen Window

3 months & I haven't fixed you. now I'm a mother before I've been robbed

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Sep 10

Today's Featured Poem:

"THORACOTOMY" by Maya Salameh published in Mizna 25.2—Futurities (2024)

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/thoraco...

THORACOTOMY

Antes/Después Huracán María

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Aug 29

Today's Featured Poem:

"Antes/Después Huracán María" by Dorsía Smith Silva from In Inheritance of Drowning published by @cavankerrypress.bsky.social

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/antes-d...

Once I sat in a garden with grass fanned across my chest.

* [1. / it'd be nice to have some recognition by now]

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · Aug 30

Today's Featured Poem:

"* [1. / it'd be nice to have some recognition by now]" by Anna Glazova and Translated by Alex Niemi from For the Shrew published by Zephyr Press

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/1-itd-b...

or does a former tree wander inside its bark like a memory in a mind gone mad?