When the text
emerges with a mark missing,
I kiss it. The error ablates
Jane Huffman
from the journal
Midway Journal
“To be a daughter is to know a particular kind of duty….a labor of love, a practice of attention….”
Literary Hub
“She was too busy scrubbing the grime from their next set of rented rooms to mourn the loss of the sunlit kitchen where her babies had been little.”
Literary Hub
“Ada Limón on rejection, moving forward, and what the trees have seen.”
Poetry Foundation
“Boldly embracing an androgynous identity and the idea of individual liberation, Södergran’s poetry was revolutionary for its time.”
Full Stop
“Both our books have at their core, I think, that multiplicity, a willingness to look intensely and say hard things without hardheartedness.”
The Adroit Journal
“In the fragmented cadence that characterizes her approach to language’s edges, Cha empowered herself both to live and to stand by as her writing takes on a life of its own.”
Los Angeles Review of Books
“Poems are practices that occur alongside a life as opposed to phenomenological containers for life.”
The Adroit Journal
“We, Palestinians, are potentially a great imagination the more we approach disappearance.”
Bomb Magazine
“Lasky repeatedly relies on lists…to reflect the regularity of the everyday, insisting on the relentlessness of mothering tasks,”
Los Angeles Review of Books
“They helped free me from the conventional idea of poetry.”
Rock and the Beat Generation
“A juggler relies on ‘caesuras’ to rhythmically catch and toss objects cycling through air….”
Jacket2
“We often think about intimacy as something private, but it’s also a kind of public exchange.”
Literary Hub
Wondering what new books have been published and what’s coming soon?
Browse all the books we’ve received in the past year. The books you buy help support Poetry Daily and all its readers.
- October 4, 2026
Liza Katz Duncan
We come to a clearing, thunderclouds above
an open field. Expecting rain, we watch
instead the grasses browning, streambed slowly...
- October 3, 2026
M. Soledad Caballero
At church I sit alone, not ready
for the faith, luscious around me.
- October 2, 2026
Azra Abbas (translated from the Urdu by Daisy Rockwell)
we shouldn't listen for the sound of footsteps.
- September 30, 2026
Katie Berta
During sex, I often think of a fact I heard, which is that
during sex, our impulse toward disgust is diminished.
Poetry Daily Depends on You
With your support, we make reading the best contemporary poetry a treasured daily experience. Consider a contribution today.
Each member of our diverse board selects poems for our daily poem feature and works with us to identify new outstanding, interesting publications for our thousands of daily readers.
