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 Read here: poems.com/poem/crayola...

Today's Featured Poem: "Scissors" by Omama Zaier, translated by Ali Znaidi from Alchemy Journal, Issue 25 Read here: poems.com/poem/scissors/

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

Today's Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Rosanna Warren on "They Set About Wasting The Land" from Hindsight published by W. W. Norton & Company Read here: poems.com/poem/they-se...

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: "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: "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: "Schrödinger" by Katie Erbs published by @pinchjournal.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/schrodi...

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 Read here: poems.com/poem/basketb...

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 Read here: poems.com/poem/from-cr...

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

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-...

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...

Today's Featured Poem: "Book of Sleep" by Darius Atefat-Peckham from Book of Kin published by @autumnhousepress.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/book-of...

Today's Featured Poem: "Redownloading Hinge" by Frank Carellini published by @swampapereview.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/redownl...

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/

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: spare.poems.com/poem/the-mou...

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 Feature: What Sparks Poetry: Eileen Myles on Leslie Scalapino's "III" Read here: spare.poems.com/features/wha...

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...

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...

Today's Featured Poem: "Second-Generation" by Ayesha Asad published in the Mid-American Review Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/second-...

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: spare.poems.com/poem/like-bi...

Today's Featured Poem: "THORACOTOMY" by Maya Salameh published in Mizna 25.2—Futurities (2024) Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/thoraco...

Today's Featured Poem: "Kitchen Window" by Richard Siken published by the American Poetry Review Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/kitchen...

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/

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...

Today's Featured Poem: "So Long" by Sunni Brown Wilkinson from Rodeo published by Autumn House Press Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/so-long/

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

Today's Featured Poem: "Unfurl" by Katie Richards from Apple Mind published by @smallharborpub.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/unfurl/...

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: "Lockdown at the School for the Deaf" by Sara Nović published by @vqr.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/lockdow...

Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Read Mani Rao on Writing “I, Lorine Niedecker” from So That You Know published by HarperCollins India Read here: spare.poems.com/features/wha...

Today's Featured Poem: "The Last Day on Earth" by Rewa Zeinati from Difficult published by Diode Editions. Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/the-las...

Today's Featured Poem: "* [1. / it'd be nice to have some recognition by now]" by Anna Glazova and Translated by Alex Niemi from For the Shrew published by Zephyr Press Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/1-itd-b...

Today's Featured Poem: "Antes/Después Huracán María" by Dorsía Smith Silva from In Inheritance of Drowning published by @cavankerrypress.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/antes-d...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Of Time, Guilt, and Sorrow” by Cal Bedient published in Michigan Quarterly Review Issue 64:1. Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/of-time...

Today’s Featured Poem: “We Came Here to Get Away from You” by @donikakelly.bsky.social from The Natural Order of Things published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/we-came...

Today’s Featured Poem: “The Elsewhere Empire” by Medbh McGuckian from The Thankless Paths to Freedom published by Wake Forest University Press Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/the-els...

Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Read Lloyd Wallace's interview with Srikanth Reddy Read here: spare.poems.com/features/wha...

Today’s Featured Poem: “The Only Miracle” by Chet'la Sebree from Blue Opening published by @tinhouse.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/the-onl...

Today’s Featured Poem: “With Love and Dread and Rage and Love,” by Stephanie Anderson from Bearings published by New Michigan Press. Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/with-lo...

Today’s Featured Poem: “The Book of Revelation” by Pádraig Ó Tuama from Kitchen Hymnas published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-boo...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Departure: To the Tune “Mu Lan Hua: Magnolia”” by Zhang Xian and translated from the Chinese by Shangyang Fang from Study of Sorrow: Translations published by Copper Canyon Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/departu...

Today’s Featured Poem: “The Returnee” by Marilyn Hacker published by @pnreview.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-ret...

Today's Feature: In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Read Lloyd Wallace's interview with Izzy Casey. Read here: poems.com/features/wha...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Geographic Tongue” by Angelina Leaños published by @twinbirdreview.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/geograp...

Today’s Featured Poem: “It Doesn’t Matter If I’m Understood” by Jennifer Espinoza from I Don't Want to be Understood published by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/it-does...