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The largest daily poem anthology... 22 years of poems in our archives! You know you need a little more poetry in your life. Get Verse Daily in your email: https://versedaily.substack.com/about

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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Feb 27

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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 22

Today's poem is "Ghost Catalog"
by John A. Nieves
from Pembroke Magazine
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 17

Today's poem is "why we chicanas listen to los coyotes"
by Kristyn Garza
from Pembroke Magazine
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 16

Today's poem is "Mercy"
by Brian Simoneau
from American Literary Review
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 15

Today's poem is "a.m."
by Sheila E. Murphy
from Escritoire
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 12

Today's poem is "Slippery Slope"
by Alexis Rhone Fancher
from Women in a Golden State
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 10

Today's poem is "On De Kooning's 'Woman and Bicycle'"
by M. L. Lyons
from Songs from the Multiverse
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 8

Today's poem is "Love Letter"
by Connie Post
from Women in a Golden State
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 6

Today's poem is "Ode to My Lover's Sequined Dress"
by Jaz Sufi
from Glass: A Journal of Poetry
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 5

Today's poem is "Crows Tell My Fortune"
by Terry Wolverton
from Women in a Golden State
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today's poem is "Farmer's Market in Antwerp"
by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
from Women in a Golden State
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 2

Today's poem is "On the short-term rental of our bodies: A complaining tone of voice"
by Gail Wronsky
from Women in a Golden State
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today's poem is "The sound of stars crumbling without any malice/ In a corner...,"
by Elena Karina Byrne
from Women in a Golden State
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 30

Today's poem is "Ardea Sacra"
by Sophie Mollart
from wildness
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 29

Today's poem is "Febrile"
by Susan Michele Coronel
from Gone Lawn
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 28

Today's poem is "On Belonging"
by Zoe Boyer
from American Literary Review
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 27

Today's poem is "Ricky Rozay raps 'put Molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it'"
by Raphael Jenkins
from The Cincinnati Review
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today's poem is "Sonnet after Autocorrect Turns Why Do You Live So Far Away? to Why Do You Love So Far Away?"
by Erica Dawson
from Sugar House Review
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 24

Today's poem is "Geometry"
by Karen Kevorkian
from Here in My Body it Feels Crowded
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today's poem is "Upon Taking the Sacrament"
by Taylor Franson-Thiel
from Sugar House Review
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 22

Today's poem is "The Space Between Us"
by KB Ballentine
from All the Way Through
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today's poem is "Dark Suite for My Country"
by April Ossmann
from We
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 20

Today's poem is "tiny-winged dinosaurs sing sweetly from the trees"
by Scott Ferry
from dear tiny flowers
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 19

Today's poem is "The Wanderer"
by Alison Hicks
from Homing
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today's poem is "Essay"
by Denise Duhamel
from Sugar House Review
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Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social · Jul 17

Today's poem is "The Color of Holiness"
by Catherine Gonick
from Split Daughter of Eve
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