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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.
Fairfax, VA
Joined November 2009
Read poetry, daily. Subscribe to our free daily newsletter to keep up with today’s poets, journals, presses, poetry news, and more. https://t.co/tzm6Hp2Q7Z
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Podcast: Henri Cole on Louise Glück "Henri Cole joins Kevin Young to read 'Vita Nova,' by Louise Glück, and his own poem 'Figs.'" Read here: https://t.co/qwZpiFFEVr
newyorker.com
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Vita Nova” by Louise Glück, and his own poem “Figs.”
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Announcement: 2025 National Book Awards Winners Announced Read here:
nationalbook.org
Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Night on the Thames Path” by @itsamule from Strange Beach published by @softskull Read here: https://t.co/Pf6faLbxSp
poems.com
To have, along the river, heard their names hovering in the head like an intellect of loss.
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An Interview with Sasha Debevec-McKenney "I’ll use the title as a way to get us all on the same page. I really want my audience to be engaged from the beginning, so that you can trust me, and I’ll carry you through the poem." Read here: https://t.co/ZBU7LYqfV2
tonemadison.com
The formerly Madison-based poet gives justice to our city and the richness of girlhood in this debut poetry collection.
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Today’s Featured Poem: “Whit” by Colin Bramwell from Fower Pessoas published by Carcanet Press Read here: https://t.co/9xYmMkENq9
poems.com
I woke up this mornin and I felt a bit weird and I jist didnae ken whit tae say.
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Poetry Foundation and Graywolf Press Collaborate on New Book Prize "The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a United States poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection." Read here: https://t.co/1obhiH4K1J
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/PRNewswire/ -- The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a United States poet aged 40 or older for their first...
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Today's Featured Poem: "I Dreamed a Word That Meant a Break in the Weaving" by Allyson Paty from Jalousie published by @tupelopress Read here: https://t.co/cWAhCLvJ41
poems.com
I dreamed the word for a splinter between weft and warp
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An Interview with Julia Kolchinsky "If you haven’t written a moon poem, how are you even a writer?...it’s just truly something that we’re so obsessed with because it’s this entity, right, that’s always there but also not always seen." Read here: https://t.co/DzA6OgI2MJ
kuaf.com
Poet Julia Kolchinsky talks with Daniel Caruth about Parallax, her latest collection exploring motherhood, language and the experience of watching war from afar.
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Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Michael Collier on Stanley Plumly's "My Mother's Feet" from his Collected Poems (2025) published by @wwnorton Read here: https://t.co/lKkLcYZryx
poems.com
How she bathed them and dried them, night after night, and rubbed their soreness like an intimacy. How she let the fire pull her soft body through them.
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Essay: "Why Poetry Belongs in the ICU" "Reading poetry out loud also requires us to pause for punctuation or line breaks, increasing our parasympathetic tone and dampening our hyperactive sympathetic nervous system" Read here: https://t.co/6s8gAeYSud
time.com
A doctor finds that poetry can be a powerful antidote to medical crises, offering meaning, hope, and healing.
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Today's Featured Poem: "a holler hello / ymmv in Appalachia" by Bernard Clay from @SouthernHReview Read here:
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Announcement: 2025 Lammy Award Winners "These winners were selected by a panel of 80 literary professionals from more than 1,300 book submissions from over 300 publishers." Read here: https://t.co/BpC5UEzSvj
lambdaliterary.org
Congratulations 2025 Lammy Award Winners
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Today’s Featured Poem: “The Hanged Man” by Ariana Reines from The Rose published by @GraywolfPress Read here: https://t.co/HUSkSQSWc4
poems.com
Fury is very lustful A body concealing its heart's desire
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Essay by Reyes Ramirez "We’re nothing short of miracles, despite what our government says. That’s what being a Houstonian means to me, and I intend to let everyone know." Read here: https://t.co/k9cKgIFotz
bittersoutherner.com
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Today's Featured Poem: "The Lying Angel" by Rafael Alberti, translated by John Murillo published in @Hopkins_Review Read here: https://t.co/S2x0V7rNAZ
poems.com
And I was defeated, I, without violence,
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"Poetry for Everyone: Remembering Courtney Kampa" by Catherine Pond and T Bambrick "Courtney collected small happinesses. Red lipstick. The permanent kiss-mark on a dog’s face. Scrawling a line of poetry on a mirror in a public place." Read here: https://t.co/8jEhUbaPOH
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Courtney collected small happinesses. Red lipstick. The permanent kiss-mark on a dog’s face. Scrawling a line of poetry on a mirror in a public place. The art of forgiveness. Music. Ballet. The peo…
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Today's Featured Poem: "Satisfiable" by MaKshya Tolbert from Shade is a Place published by @PenguinBooks Read here: https://t.co/Ep4chz2qOZ
poems.com
Founded in 1997, Poetry Daily is 501(c)3 non-profit daily anthology of contemporary poetry. Learn more about our work on the About page.
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Dong Li on Translating Ye Hui's Poems "I have come to see Ye Hui as a metaphysical poet of myths and mysteries." Read here: https://t.co/ErrEDl5KbD
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Today's Featured Poem: "Player Piano" by Susan Barba published by @nybooks Read here: https://t.co/RQirz7MPY1
poems.com
My face is a case study in gravity. A face study. A grave.
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An Interview with Monica Ong "What I love about astronomy is how this cosmic perspective encourages me to zoom back and embrace a much broader long-term perspective, which has helped me navigate these strange times." Read here: https://t.co/SsaxuXUj6g
c-ville.com
Monica Ong is a visual poet and author of the new book Planetaria. With a focus on family and diaspora as well as astronomy, the poems in Planetaria are tactile—not just visual but multidimensional....
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