Today's Featured Poem: "Preparing the Body" by Monika Herceg, translated from the Croatian by @marinaveverec.bsky.social from Closed Season published by @sandorfpassage.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/prepari...

Monika Herceg’s “Preparing the Body” from Closed Season (tr. Marina Veverec) is featured @poetrydaily.bsky.social today. poems.com/poem/prepari...

Today's Featured Poem: "English Language Assimilation as a Bite of Sashimi" by Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen from Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic published by @weslpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/english...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Swimming versus Drowning” by Sihle Ntuli from Owele published by uHlanga Press Read here: poems.com/poem/swimmin...

Today's Featured Poem: "Reflection" by Asmaa Azaizeh, translated by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha from Heaven Looks Like Us published by @haymarketbooks.org Read here: poems.com/poem/reflect...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Mistranslation” by @ariacurtis.bsky.social from The Sewanee Review, Spring 25 Read here: poems.com/poem/mistran...

Today's Featured Poem: "This Animal" by Aracelis Girmay from Green of All Heads published by Boa Editions, Ltd. Read here: poems.com/poem/this-an...

Today’s Featured Poem: [I've wanted to ask for a long time...] by Anna Malihon, translated by Olena Jennings from from Girl with a Bullet published by World Poetry Books Read here: poems.com/poem/ive-wan...

Today’s Featured Poem: “1. what warrants a war? (compilation)” by Hasib Hourani from Rock Flight published by @ndbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/1-what-...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Stacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your Bones” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi from The New Economy published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/stackin...

Today’s Featured Poem: [we will weave the earth this dress of time...] by Cody-Rose Clevidence from The Household of Earthly Nature published by Roof Books Read here: poems.com/poem/we-will...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Craft Talk” by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi from Terror Counter published by Deep Vellum Read here: poems.com/poem/craft-t...

Today's Featured Poem: "Mundane Song" by Rickey Laurentiis from Death of the First Idea published by Knopf Read here: poems.com/poem/mundane...

Today's Featured Poem: "Girl Work" by Zefyr Lisowski from Girl Work published by Noemi Press Read here: poems.com/poem/girl-wo...

Today’s Featured Poem: “One Thanksgiving Day” by Pat Parker from Essential Poems published by Sinister Wisdom Read here:

Today’s Featured Poem: “Matryoshka” by Temperance Aghamohammadi from Battalion Shaped Girl published by Discount Guillotine Read here:

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Today’s Featured Poem: “Last Century, Last Week: Holy Will (Ekphrastic)” by Ajanaé Dawkins with an image by Ky Smiley from Blood-Flex published by New Delta Review Read here:

Today's Featured Poem: "13 Questions for the Next Economy" by @utopiaminus.bsky.social from 13 Questions for the Next Economy published by @noemipress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/13-ques...

Today's Featured Poem: [come we know the water…] by Sabine Huynh, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell from Speaking Skin published by Black Square Editions Read here: poems.com/poem/come-we...

Today's Feature: @martheaus.bsky.social On Film Ekphrasis Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

Today's Featured Poem: "Post-Algonquin" by Ashley D. Escobar from GLIB published by Changes Press Read here: poems.com/poem/post-al...

Today's Featured Poem: "水客" by Caroline M. Mar from Water Guest published by @uwiscpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-wat...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Burning Down the Waffle House” by Danny Caine from @barrelhouse.bsky.social, issue 25 Read here: poems.com/poem/burning...

Today’s Featured Poem: “The Coming of Fox” by Bernardo Wade from The Sewanee Review, Winter 2025 Read here: poems.com/poem/the-com...

Today's Featured Poem: “Reading Virginia Woolf in a Women in Literature Class at Bergen Community College" by Carlie Hoffman from One More World Like This World published by @fourwaybooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/reading...

Today's Featured Poem: "(FIG)" by Ahmad Almallah from Border Wisdom published by Winter Editions Read here: poems.com/poem/fig/

Today’s Featured Poem: “Rule: Now rewrite from the perspective of the woman in the chair of Peter Blume's 1932 painting Light of the World” by Katrine Øgaard Jensen, translated by Andkjær Olsen, Nakayasu, Machado, Cunningham, Badji, & CAConrad Read here: poems.com/poem/rule-no...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Traceable Relation” by Kimberly Alidio from Traceable Relation published by @fonografeditions.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/traceab...

Today's Featured Poem: "Chipping Sparrow" by Susan Howe published by Poetry Magazine Read here: poems.com/poem/chippin...

Today's Featured Poem: "Springtime Again" by Alison C. Rollins from Black Bell published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/springt...

Today's Featured Poem: "Schrödinger" by Katie Erbs published by @pinchjournal.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/schrodi...

Today's Featured Poem: "The Month When I Watch Joker Every Day" by Erica Dawson published in @commonmag.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-mon...

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: poems.com/poem/frances...

Today's Featured Poem: "tryouts" by Gary Jackson from Small Lives published by @unmpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/tryouts/

Today's Featured Poem: "Bangkok Traffic" by Nida Sophasarun from Novice published by Louisiana State University Press Read here: poems.com/poem/bangkok...

Today's Featured Poem: "It's So Idyllic Here" by Sasha Debevec-McKenney from Joy is My Middle Name published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/its-so-...

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: poems.com/poem/i-bring...

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-...

go read @daybreakjung.bsky.social’s fantastic essay, “A Trivial Translator of Trivial Poems”! poems.com/features/wha...

Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: @daybreakjung.bsky.social on "Nurse II" Read here: poems.com/poem/nurse-ii/

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...

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...

Today's Featured Poem: "107 Water Street" by @henricole.bsky.social from The Other Love published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/107-wat...

simultaneously one of the funniest and the most cutting poems I've read in ages, from Rebecca Hawkes in @phoebejournal.bsky.social

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Today's Featured Poem: "[may rain]" by Masaoka Shiki & translated from Japanese by Abby Ryder-Huth from The Glass Clouding published by @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/may-rai...

Today's Featured Poem: "Ouroboros" by Isabelle Baafi from Chaotic Good published by @weslpress.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/ourobor...