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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:

"Post-Algonquin" by Ashley D. Escobar from GLIB published by Changes Press

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Post-Algonquin
We are in the shop. The perfect functional beverage should have zero sugar or sugar alternatives.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Today's Feature:

@martheaus.bsky.social On Film Ekphrasis

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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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December 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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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

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[come we know the water...]
come we know the water the rain waits for us
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December 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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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

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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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December 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Sweet child, do not be as wise as your parents“ by Kinshuk Gupta, translated by Dyuti Mishra from the Words Without Borders
Special Collection: Queer Poetry

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Sweet child, do not be as wise as your parents
Stay stupid so the world pities you & leaves you alone.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Geomorphology of the Upper Great Plains" by Joe Wilkins from Pastoral, 1994 published by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social

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Geomorphology of the Upper Great Plains
From the subduction of the Farallon plate, from an ancient ocean draining away, away,                from a merle of red-winged blackbirds ringing the last reedy mudhole for miles, beneath a wind lean...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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

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December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Dual Time” by Hwang InChan, translated by Eun-Gwi Chung from Washing a Myna published by Black Square Editions

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Dual Time
I was in front of the fountain in a Korean Central Park. You were passing the fountain in Central Park.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today’s Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: Debra Nystrom on Charles Wright’s “Ghost Days” from Scar Tissue published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Ghost Days
Who was the sixth guy in the Fiat 500 With Giancarlo, Pamela, the two drunken carabinieri and me That New Year’s Eve around 3 a.m.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Matryoshka” by Temperance Aghamohammadi from Battalion Shaped Girl published by Discount Guillotine

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December 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

"Thyme" & "Sycamore matter" by Christian Lehnert, translated by Richard Sieburth from wickerwork published by @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

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"Thyme" & "Sycamore matter"
In the sun it exhibits / its split petioles / Its sheets of bark / mushrooms in their folds /
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December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“One Thanksgiving Day” by Pat Parker from Essential Poems published by Sinister Wisdom

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One Thanksgiving Day
One Thanksgiving Day Priscilla Ford got into her Lincoln Continental
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December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Girl Work" by Zefyr Lisowski from Girl Work published by Noemi Press

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Girl Work
He called me. He did what he was supposed to do.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Mundane Song" by Rickey Laurentiis from Death of the First Idea published by Knopf

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Mundane Song
You go outside and the Trees don't know You're Black.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"Proto-Indo-European Trees" by Stephen Collis from The Middle published by @talonbooks.bsky.social

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Proto-Indo-European Trees
We surmise the existence of ancestor languages
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December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today’s Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: Devon Walker-Figuera on “Polyphase Sestets” from Lazarus Species published by Milkweed

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Polyphase Sestets
without thought of how a current could harness you-you, with lamentable endurance swam in my shadow. Like an element,
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December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Craft Talk” by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi from Terror Counter published by Deep Vellum

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Craft Talk
I am interested in frightening you. I do not want to be alone anymore.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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

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[we will weave the earth this dress of time...]
when I speak, slowly, I want the universe to listen.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“When I Say No, the Joker Smiles” by Taylor Byas from Resting Bitch Face published by Soft Skull Press

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When I Say No, the Joker Smiles
In the dark theater, I stale with the popcorn left
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December 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Today’s Featured Poems:

“Spam for President” by Harryette Mullen from Regaining published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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Spam for President
A hot pocket in every Chernobyl, a pig in every inbox.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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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

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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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December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Today's Featured Poem:

"After Turning the Clocks Back" by Jennifer Moxley from The Midnight Work published by Flood Editions

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After Turning the Clocks Back
I rest my feet on the record crates, wrap my cold hands around warm tea.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM