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Day 283. 10/10/25. “Scissors”. Omama Zaier.Translated from Arabic by Ali Znaid. According to the translator, “With a poetic voice that is as tantalizingly uncontrolled as it is intellectually sublime, Zaier’s poem brims with audacity, sensuality, music, and cultural references.” #poemaday365

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Day 282. 10/9/25. “Homage”. Stephen Dunn. #TBT 1996 #poemaday365

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Day 281. 10/8/25. “See the World”. Brynja Hjálmsdóttir.Translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton. #poemaday365

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Day 280. 10/7/25. “tryouts”. Gary Jackson. According to the poet, “It’s not required reading, but if you can—go find a copy of Justice League of America #173. The cover alone is worth the price of admission. This poem reimagines the central plot of that issue . . .“ #poemaday365

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Day 279. 10/6/25. “The thing about shadows on a hillside”. #latepost #poemaday365

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Day 278. 10/5/25. “Sole Blessing”. J. Allyn Rosser. Spiritual Sunday with this piece that explores love, religion, God, The Divine, and spirituality. #poemaday365

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Day 277. 10/4/25. “Speak”. Song lyric Saturday with this track by Godsmack from their 2006 release “IV”. #poemaday365

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Day 276. 10/3/25. “Be the Dog”. Shane Kowalski. According to the poet, he tried to “meld the aesthetics of Lydia Davis and Georges Bataille.” #poemaday365

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Day 275. 10/2/25. “Desire”. Jayanta Mahapantra. #TBT 1975. #poemaday365

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Day 274. 10/1/25. “One acquires an especially lush gender.” Toby Altman. According to the poet, he “wrote this poem at Target . . . You can go to Target and be in pain, exhausted, overwhelmed by desire: poetry is the art of going to Target badly.” #poemaday365

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Day 273. 9/30/25. “So Long”. Sunni Brown Wilkinson. According to the poet: “Like poetry and solitude. And just living in a body. I tend to my inner life like I do my garden: fitfully at times but with earnest devotion.” #poemaday365

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Day 272. 9/29/25. “107 Water Street”. Henri Cole. A poem modeled after Elizabeth Bishop’s elegy for Robert Lowell titled ‘North Haven’. #latepost #poemaday365

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Day 271. 9/28/25. “I Went Out To Hear”. Leila Chatti. Spiritual Sunday with this poem in which the poet explores a difficult feeling in their life based on a previous trip and the inability to go anywhere. #latepost #poemaday365

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Day 270. 9/27/25. “Deity”. Song lyric Saturday with this 2022 track by the artist Demo Club. #latepost #poemaday365

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Day 269. 9/26/25. “Basketball Sonnet with a Wish the Game Would Go On”. Cody Smith. Although a #girldad, this one hits on so many different levels. #poemaday365

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Day 268. 9/24/25. “Stanzas”. Emily Jane Brontë. #TBT 1846. #poemaday365

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Day 267. 9/24/25. “Book of Sleep”. Darius Atefat-Peckham. According to the poet, “I’ve always been interested in dreams and the subconscious: where else does the mind travel in that uninhibited, imaginative realm?” #poemaday365

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Day 266. 9/23/25. “The Oracle Delivers Your Pizza”. Natasha Ramoutar. #poemaday365

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Day 255. 9/22/25. “Sweet Magnolia”. #latepost #poemaday365

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Day 264. 9/21/25. “Underneath (13)”. Jorie Graham. Spiritual Sunday with this interestingly formatted and philosophical poem. #poemaday365

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Day 263. 9/20/25. “Illuminated”. Song lyric Saturday with this metal track by the band Vintersea. Only the real ones will make it to the 5 minute mark of the track. #poemaday365

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Day 262. 9/19/25. “III”. Leslie Scalapino. Interesting prose-structured poem by this Bay Area poet. #poemaday365

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Day 261. 9/18/25. “A Lady Dressed By Youth”. Duchess of Newcastle Margaret Cavendish. #TBT approx. 1653 #poemaday365

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Day 260. 9/17/25. “[Like birches, ....]”. Allison Blevins. #poemaday365

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Day 259. 9/16/25. “So Grateful I Turn To Art”. Jennifer Nelson. According to the poet, she “saw colors differently after living a few years in the Wisconsin prairie. This began to intersect with my lifelong confusion of nature with technology.” #poemaday365