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