Poetry Daily

Springtime Again When judgment comes, ain't nowhere to run. April snow is how time disciplines its children.

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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Crayola Da Gamba whippets without the within

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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Scissors She cut a piece of cloth

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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I bring poets from Lviv, Ukraine to my college class in Arkansas through the computer screen           a loud                     bang           a bomb           a fist perhaps

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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It's So Idyllic Here until you realize no one else cares about the new Mission Impossible movie. It’s safe to walk alone at night.

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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Bangkok Traffic The cars line up in the night's waiting room, and it's another hour before I get out of the car

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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“They set about wasting the land” When the plague first broke out         among                 the Athenians

Today's Feature:

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

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

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian lessons in methodology, how to pluck each detailed monument to her private suffering from its noxious and stifling stem.

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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The Month When I Watch Joker Every Day The month is February and that means nothing because winter in Tampa is

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

Today's Featured Poem:

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

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Basketball Sonnet with a Wish the Game Would Go On Even still he talks smack: I broke them ankles; you can't guard me; come and get it.

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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from "Cruel Loss of Sons" My tongue is slack with sky-weight, to slow to move

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

Today's Feature:

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

Read here:
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I Went Out to Hear In the absence of anything else, my own breathing became obscene.

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-...

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

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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Book of Sleep The Boy-Seeking will never understand                    how His father reads

Today's Featured Poem:

"Book of Sleep" by Darius Atefat-Peckham from Book of Kin published by @autumnhousepress.bsky.social
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Redownloading Hinge green flags i      look for             / runs on the esplanade       and golden doodles

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
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Zvuv Half-naked in her ankle-length dressing-gown,

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/

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

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

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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Eileen Myles on Leslie Scalapino 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...

Today's Feature:

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

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

So Grateful I Turn to the Art I'm so sacred the only thing left is the altar

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...

See the World Where I'm from there is no living only surviving

Today's Featured Poem:

"See the World" by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir & translated by Rachel Britton from A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder published by Circumference Books

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

Second-Generation Out in the sky, a comet flails.

Today's Featured Poem:

"Second-Generation" by Ayesha Asad published in the Mid-American Review

Read here:
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[Like birches, ....] Like birches, the daughter guards the house, makes her arms into gears and pulleys. She is of use. Like

oday's Featured Poem:

"[Like birches, ....]" by Allison Blevins from Where Will We Live If The House Burns Down published by Persea Books

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

Today's Featured Poem:

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

Read here:
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Kitchen Window Several men were not my father. Some I avoided, some I wanted to impress.

Today's Featured Poem:

"Kitchen Window" by Richard Siken published by the American Poetry Review

Read here:
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Citizen Supremely alive to the letter to the shifting

Today's Feature:

In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Roberto Tejada on “Citizen” from Carbonate of Copper published by @fordhampress.bsky.social

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

Owed to My Father's Accent The way I train my tongue to imitate his, words clumsy and labored in my imposter mouth.

Today's Featured Poem:

"Owed to My Father's Accent" by Ally Ang from Let the Moon Wobble published by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social

Read here:
spare.poems.com/poem/owed-to...