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On the subject of assurance I should have I should have

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Chipping Sparrow" by Susan Howe published by Poetry Magazine

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Chipping Sparrow

“They set about wasting the land”

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 2d

Today's Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: Rosanna Warren on "They Set About Wasting The Land" from Hindsight published by W. W. Norton & Company

(Reprise: as our website experienced a sustained outage on Monday, September 29)

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When the plague first broke out among the Athenians

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 · 3d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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Springtime Again

whippets without the within

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 4d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Crayola Da Gamba" by Merril Gilfillan from Three Roans In the Shallows, One of Them Blue published by @floodeditions.bsky.social

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Crayola Da Gamba

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 5d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Scissors" by Omama Zaier, translated by Ali Znaidi from Alchemy Journal, Issue 25

Read here:
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Scissors

She cut a piece of cloth

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 6d

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

Read here:
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through the computer screen a loud bang a bomb a fist perhaps

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 · 7d

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

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 · 8d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
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Bangkok Traffic

“They set about wasting the land”

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 9d

Today's Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: Rosanna Warren on "They Set About Wasting The Land" from Hindsight published by W. W. Norton & Company

Read here:
poems.com/poem/they-se...

When the plague first broke out among the Athenians

The boy's brown fingers hold tight to your emblem, leave wet impressions on your chest.

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 10d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
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tryouts

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 11d

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 Month When I Watch Joker Every Day

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 12d

Today's Featured Poem:

"The Month When I Watch Joker Every Day" by Erica Dawson published in @commonmag.bsky.social

Read here:
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The month is February and that means nothing because winter in Tampa is

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 13d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
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Schrödinger

Basketball Sonnet with a Wish the Game Would Go On

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 14d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Basketball Sonnet with a Wish the Game Would Go On" by Cody Smith from River Hymnal published by Texas Review Press

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Even still he talks smack: I broke them ankles; you can't guard me; come and get it.

from "Cruel Loss of Sons"

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 15d

Today's Featured Poem:

An excerpt from "Cruel Loss of Sons" by Egill Skallagrímsson, translated by Emily Osborne published in @parisreview.bsky.social's Winter 2024 issue

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My tongue is slack with sky-weight, to slow to move

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

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 16d

Today's Feature:

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

Read here:
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Nurse II

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 17d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/i-went-...

I Went Out to Hear

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 · 18d

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
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107 Water Street

The Boy-Seeking will never understand how His father reads

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 19d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Book of Sleep" by Darius Atefat-Peckham from Book of Kin published by @autumnhousepress.bsky.social
Read here:
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Book of Sleep

green flags i look for / runs on the esplanade and golden doodles

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 20d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Redownloading Hinge" by Frank Carellini published by @swampapereview.bsky.social

Read here:
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Redownloading Hinge

Half-naked in her ankle-length dressing-gown,

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 21d

Today's Featured Poem:

"Zvuv" by Selima Hill from Women in Comfortable Shoes published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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

Zvuv

[The mouse doesn’t try to escape.]

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 22d

Today's Featured Poem:

"[The mouse doesn’t try to escape.]" by Hélène Cixous & translated by Beverley Bie Brahic from Rêvoir published by Seagull Books

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/the-mou...

The mouse doesn’t try to escape. She could. She cannot. She is spellbound. She can’t leave the cat alone.

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

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 23d

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

We featured his poem, Papyrus Pantoum, in April.

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

Papyrus Pantoum

Eileen Myles on Leslie Scalapino

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 23d

Today's Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: Eileen Myles on Leslie Scalapino's "III"

Read here:
spare.poems.com/features/wha...

Anything goes but with Leslie it's both the gentility and the audacity of the meeting of her work that produces sex or allows how sex occurs in her world that has such a profound effect on me. She tur...