The Value of Verse Daily

JP Dancing Bear continues to publish terrific selections in Verse Daily. I wish I checked in with the archives more often. Maybe a good reading goal to add to the list for 2023?

Verse Daily offers a terrific way to learn about literary magazines (especially print journals) and small presses. These poems are carefully selected and, more often than not, I find they are worthwhile.

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From among the many recent posts, I highly recommend reading:

A Small Needful Fact by Ross Gay

Winter by Major Jackson

Memorial Day by Robert Okaji

Hunger by Ruth Award

At Motel 6 the Night DeeDee Died by Rebecca Foust

Leda in Old Age by Ellen Aronofsky Cole

To scare men by Stella Wong

I/ Self/ Woman in Berlin by Tyler Mills

First Snow by Joyce Sutphen

Quetzalcoatl in the City by Jose Hernandez Diaz

Memo from the Accused Girl by Alison Joseph (TW: sexual assault)

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