My people throw the name of God out like candy, not in vain but in the way you say the name of someone you love again and again. The latest $ feature is by Salma Amrou! poetrycurrency.com/feature/salm...

Cooking, then eating, then clearing up. Buying, then wearing, then washing and folding and putting away. Listing, arranging, remembering. Making the body, presenting it, hating it, remaking it, presenting it, getting fucked, getting fucked. The new $ feature is by Shira Haus! tinyurl.com/5xcz9pds

It turns out the pain is a creature I’m growing. The creature I’m growing lords over the nerves of walking, continence and love. This new $ feature is by Amanda Quaid! poetrycurrency.com/feature/aman...

I don’t know where this / all ends up, but I’ve always been breaking / apart

All last year, I waited for a white dwarf to crash into a red giant’s stellar wind, for the display–electric orange, pink. I studied simulations online. The latest $ feature is three poems by Ja'net Danielo! poetrycurrency.com/feature/jane...

i didn’t mean to get nostalgic; i just have a strange need to be loved like i’ve been shot nowhere fatal. The new $ feature is by Adrián Pachuca! poetrycurrency.com/feature/adri...

What a fine Sunday to be featured in $ (𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮)! @poetrycurrency.bsky.social

A line of wet black birds on the power wire, coal drops, hunker elbow to elbow. I will gun it for the open drawbridge. There is a casket I need to go dancing on. The new $ feature is by @jlyocum.com! poetrycurrency.com/feature/j-l-...

We raised ourselves over the starboard side, our shoes soaked from crossing beds of eelgrass. One girl’s face was broad with scars like threaded silk. The newest $ feature is by Kelly Gray! poetrycurrency.com/feature/kell...

We're going to be closed to new work for a while so the editor can take a mental health break. We'll update here and on our guidelines page when that changes. We'll continue to publish our existing queue of poetry features.

What if I tell you / something both / terrible and true?

A knock on the door deep into night, the door of a house deep in a field, in trees, not a house where one would stop... The latest $ feature is three poems by @carolynguinzio.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/feature/caro...

who wants to remember how we sat in the rain after playing soccer and could not tell tears from rainwater Today's $ feature is two poems by Jeremy Teddy Karn! poetrycurrency.com/feature/jere...

Well, for starters, we eat, we sleep. If we’re going to know it, we’re going to know it this way. It feels like a trick sometimes, how we start and then start again. The new $ feature is by John Gallaher! poetrycurrency.com/feature/john...

Here's the poem and the link to it in Poetry Is Currency. Thanks so much for the nomination! poetrycurrency.com/poem/j-t-kel...

Congratulations to our nominees for the Best of the Net Awards!

In the booths lining the exterior they form a protective barrier, write down the worst things they think they’ve ever said on napkins embossed with tiny dots in the shape of a flower. The latest $ feature is by Holly Amos! poetrycurrency.com/feature/holl...

On TV, the investment firm ad says there are three hundred and thirty million dreams, all American and therefore all special. The newest $ feature is by Tim DeJong! poetrycurrency.com/feature/tim-...

"Who as a girl got trapped in the undertow, gulped salt water, thought it might be easier to become fish or stingray. Who wanted to smash every buoy in the ocean." This $ deep cut is "Dispatch from Planet H" by Julie Brooks Barbour! poetrycurrency.com/poem/julie-b...

"what it must mean / that someone lost their kicks to the telephone wire / or was it relinquishment? / was it banishment? / were they freighted by birds?" The new $ poetry feature is by Elisa Luna Ady! poetrycurrency.com/feature/elis...

I hold her within unpartable muzzle of gray, in day on day blank stare of sky. I’m dreaming the stratosphere, the she she cannot become, the layer onto which the glory of the birds is borne. This $ archive poem is "Nimbostratus" by Hannah Marshall! poetrycurrency.com/poem/hannah-...

Day 14: “Has a Night Named for Its Lace” by Sally Rosen Kindred in @poetrycurrency.bsky.social. What a beautiful, poignant meditation on motherhood. poetrycurrency.com/poem/sally-r...

Deep thanks to @poetrycurrency.bsky.social for featuring these two poems--which are proof I'm a) still writing about foxes and b) still writing, even though a doctor drilled a hole in my head. 😂🦊🤷‍♀️

Every mother’s nightgown has a sill and a jamb. Has a child who touches her face and walks through. Each nightgown dreams it’s made of glass or is hungry for a name to hold the wind inside. The latest $ feature is by Sally Rosen Kindred (@sallypoet.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/feature/sall...

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Literary Poetry feat. @dialogist.bsky.social @poetrycurrency.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

So this happened. Many thanks to @rosswhite.com for the notification and to Best of the Net for acknowledging my poem pubbed by the lovely folks at @poetrycurrency.bsky.social as a finalist for this year.

Congratulations to @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, whose poem "IT ISN’T UNTIL I’M LECTURING MY STUDENTS ON FIRE SAFETY AND THEY’RE ALL LOOKING AT ME LIKE I’VE GROWN TWO HEADS THAT I REALIZE MAYBE I’M NOT TAKING YOUR DEATH AS WELL AS I THOUGHT" from $ was a finalist for Best of the Net!

The day breaks / saffron as butter / as egg yolk seeping in through the window / slips to the centre of the pan Today's $ archive poem is "Breakfast After the Fact" by Elizabeth M. Castillo (@emcwritesthings.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/poem/elizabe...

The boys wear creased trousers and clip-on polyester ties they tear off when the bell rings at lunchtime. Then they wriggle on the blacktop like earthworms drying up. This $ deep cut is "Point of Stasis" by @jasutherland.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/poem/jennife...

I’ve been waiting lately for my heart to stop. On a phobia survey, fear of a heart attack ranks between fear of long words and fear of being abused, but a bit ahead of fear of moths and butterflies. The new $ feature is by Michael Meyerhofer! poetrycurrency.com/feature/mich...

Our queue is a little empty for the summer, so if you've been thinking of sending us poems, now is a great time to get noticed! poetrycurrency.com/writers-guid...

Here I am, said God, and there he was, and there we all were, decked out in purple shirts and cargo pants, standing in rows like cows awaiting supper. This $ throwback poem is "Intimate Disgrace" by Franziska Hofhansel! poetrycurrency.com/poem/franzis...

I love @poetrycurrency.bsky.social so it is a real thrill to be the feature on there as we speak...

The darkness is a circle at the center. At the center of what. The darkness is a circle in the center of your chest. The new $ feature is by @robertkrut.bsky.social! poetrycurrency.com/feature/robe...

Thanks for rebooting and taking a chance on this one!

When it rains, it whirs, a sad hum of stand mixer and wet ingredients, storm clouds beaten into stiff peaks. No, it’s not like that. I’ve been watching too many baking shows. This poem from the $ vault is by Donna Vorreyer (@djvorreyer.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/poem/donna-v...

The angels demand I gather snowdrops. They say: Snowdrops have to be picked at sunrise. All the way, you must carry a piano on your back. This poem from the archive is "Self-portrait with snowdrops" by Réka Nyitrai! poetrycurrency.com/poem/reka-ny...

I think of the teenage girl who vlogged her thoughts on the revolution, released from prison so her jailers, knowing she would die from injuries, could claim she killed herself... Today's new $ featured poet is Noor Jafari. poetrycurrency.com/feature/noor...

Want to read a poem but overwhelmed by the number of possible choices? Use our random poem feature! poetrycurrency.com/random/?cat=...

Don't send us messages like this when we ask you not to BCC us on mass emails of your poems to who knows how many different journals. You're the asshole in this scenario.

In my dream there are junipers, black ants, shovels & mattresses. My dead bury themselves with their limbs facing a slew of stars. Today's poem from the $ vault is "Nostos" by Prosper C. Ìféányí (@prosperifeanyi.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/poem/prosper...

And here they are! poetrycurrency.com

The lost things. I went out weeping. Men holding their hats lose their words to the wind. Paper drifts against the curbs. The newest $ feature is by @j-tkelly.bsky.social! And if you like round numbers, this is our 100th feature! poetrycurrency.com/feature/j-t-...

Under an x-ray, I was mistaken for an octopus. The doctor told me: “Your heartbeat is your calendar.” This poem from the vault is "Light for You" by Erica Miriam Fabri! poetrycurrency.com/poem/erica-m...

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free General Literary Poems feat. @takahemagazine.bsky.social @evergreenreview.bsky.social @poetrycurrency.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

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I wake up in the dream and there you are packing unpacking repacking there I am unpacking what you have packed repacking what you have unpacked... The new $ feature is three poems by Heidi Zeigler (@zeegirl.bsky.social)! poetrycurrency.com/feature/heid...

My bug phobia keeps me from identifying species. I’m not sure that it’s a clinical phobia. But my bipolar, that is clinical and raw. Yes. Both. This poem from the $ archive is "My office is a graveyard" by SG Huerta! @sgpoet.bsky.social poetrycurrency.com/poem/sg-huer...