The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.
—Charles Simic
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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.
- We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. —Louise Glück
- If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it. —Anne Carson
- Today's Featured Poet: Eliza Gilbert is an undergraduate at Vassar College. She is the recipient of the 2023 Iowa Review Award in Poetry, as well as LitMag’s 2023 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. She was born and raised in New York City.
- Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. —C. D. Wright
- I was young here. Riding the subway with my small book as though to defend myself against the same world: you are not alone, the poem said, in the dark tunnel. —Louise Glück
- Today's Featured Poet: June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936 and was the author of 10 books of poetry, 7 collections of essays, 2 plays, a libretto, a novel, a memoir, 5 children’s books, and June Jordan’s Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint.
- If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. —Fernando Pessoa
- Publishing: "Last month, at age 101, Sarah Yerkes released her first collection of poems, “Days of Blue and Flame,” published by Passager Books at the University of Baltimore." (The Washington Post) #pdnews
- Today's Featured Poet: Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, AL with her partner and several intense mammals. Alina’s poems, essays, and fiction can be found in BOMB, Poetry, @pleiadesmag, and others. She is currently working on a novel-like creature.
- Today's Featured Poet: Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award. He lives in New York City, where he is a professor at NYU.
- Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time. —W. S. Merwin
- Today's Featured Poet: Wanda Coleman—poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist—was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Coleman was a bronze-medal finalist for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for her collection Mercurochrome.
