At the end of December I posted my favorite reads of 2016. When I posted the link on Twitter someone asked that I provide a list of the 54 books of poetry I read last year. My goal had been to read one book of poetry each week and I was happy to surpass it. Here’s the poetry I ready in 2016.

  1. Guns and Butter by Montana Ray
  2. The Endarkenment by Jeffrey McDaniels
  3. Letters Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers
  4. District Lines, Volume III
  5. Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  6. NY by Mandy Ord
  7. The Petrov Poems by Lesley Lebkowicz
  8. Flying Out With the Wounded by Anne Caston
  9. Disturbance by Ivy Alvarez
  10. The Big Smoke by Adrian Matekje
  11. Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder
  12. Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
  13. Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth by Alice Walker
  14. Sad Girl Poems by Christopher Soto
  15. Figure Studies by Claudia Emerson
  16. Poetry After 9/11 Anthology edited by Dennis Johnson and Valarie Merins
  17. Pharaoh, Pharaoh by Claudia Emerson
  18. Turn Off or Use Opener by David Kresh
  19. La Douleur Exquise by J.R. Rogue
  20. Racing Hummingbirds by Jeanann Verlee
  21. One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds
  22. The Switching Yard by Jan Beatty
  23. Said the Manic to the Muse by Jeanann Verlee
  24. Mixtape of the Unsaid by JS Belote
  25. On That One Way Trip to Mars by Marlena Chertock
  26. Tanka & Me by Kathe Schwehn
  27. A Door With a Voice by Katie Manning
  28. The Children’s War by Shandel Beers
  29. Michelangelo’s Seizure by Steve Gerhke
  30. The Female Gaze is Cool by Alexandra Wuest
  31. Trusting Souls by Brian Andres
  32. Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
  33. Common Ground Review
  34. Good Grief by Stevie Edwards
  35. Do Conjoined Twins Masturbate by Singing Ghosts
  36. 3Arabi Song by Zeina Heshem Beck
  37. The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay
  38. Before Snowfall, After Rain by Ariel Francisco
  39. Birth Marks by Jim Daniels
  40. Our Poison Horse by Derrick Brown
  41. Accepting the Disaster by Joshua Mehigan
  42. Ligatures by Denise Miller
  43. Rain by Don Patterson
  44. What the Living Do by Marie Howe
  45. When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
  46. Tasty Other by Katie Manning
  47. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
  48. I Knew You Once by Alexander Kesick
  49. Heavenly Questions by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  50. Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen
  51. Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
  52. Seam by Tarfia Faizullah
  53. The Captain Asks For a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn
  54. How to Take a Bullet by Hollie Hardy