More than anything I love poetry – reading, writing, swimming through it. Figuratively of course but if I could figure out a way to literally swim through poetry I’d be willing to give it a try. 😉 In 2019 I read 266 books, of those, 69 of them were poetry. Here are the books of poetry I read in 2019:

1. Seducing the Asparagus Queen by Amorak Huey
2. White Pine by Mary Oliver
3. Basement Gemini by Chelsea Margaret Bodnar
4. Slut Songs by Jade Hurter
5. Hearing the Underwater by Savannah Slone
6. Being a Father by Michael S. Glaser
7. Mystery Schools by Bruce MacKinnon
8. Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
9. We Play a Game by Duy Doan
10. Drive Here and Devastate Me by Megan Falley
11. i was the jukebox by Sandra Beasley
12. Registers of Illuminated Villages by Tarfia Faizullah
13. How to Love the Empty Air by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
14. A Constellation of Half-Lives by Seema Reza
15. Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
16. The Insomniac Circus by Amorak Huey
17. A Map of the Farm Three Miles From the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey
18. Often Go Awry by Brian S. Ellis
19. Take Me With You, Wherever You’re Going by Jessica Jacobs
20. Dear Terror, Dear Splendor by Melissa Crowe
21. Dig by Bryan Borland
22. Boom Box by Amorak Huey
23. The Feather Room by Anis Mojgani
24. Virgin by Analicia Sotelo
25. Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
26. Hybrida by Tina Chang
27. Quiver by Holly Pelesky
28. Goodbye Toothless House by Kelly Fordon
29. Naughty Poems for Adults, Vol. V by Kevin Devaney
30. how to get over by T’ai Freedom Ford
31. Soft Science by Franny Choi
32. Life After Rugby by Eileen G’Sell
33. Diary of a Cell by Jennifer Gresham
34. Your Strange Future by Chloe Clark
35. boy/girl/ghost by torrin a. greathouse
36. When Did I Stop Being 20 and Other Injustices by Judith Viorst
37. Instructions for Temporary Survival by Monica Prince
38. You’re Going to Miss Me When You’re Bored by Justin Marks
39. I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
40. Ha Ha Ha Thump by Amorak Huey
41. Hadestown by Kim Triedman
42. Like Shining from Shook Foil by Cathy Smith Bowers
43. Praising the Paradox by Tina Schumann
44. Take Nothing With You by Sarah V. Schweig
45. Dwarf Bamboo by Marilyn Chin
46. A Memento Sent by the World by Marianna Hofer
47. Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
48. Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman
49. Eve’s Striptease by Julia Kasdorf
50. These are the Breaks by Idris Goodwin
51. Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
52. Good Grief by Mikey Swanberg
53. How to Cook a Ghost by Logan February
54. Diary of a Ghost Girl by Shay Alexi
55. Chloe by Kristina Haynes
56. I Will Destroy You by Nick Flynn
57. No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
58. Turning to Fiction by Donna Masini
59. Undone, Still Whole by Tianna G. Hansen
60. These Many Rooms by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
61. The Bad Secret by Judith Harris
62. 4:30 Movie by Donna Masini
63. it’s my party by Izzy Leslie
64. Made and Unmade by Emily Perez
65. Our Debatable Bodies by Marisa Crane
66. A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
67. The Oceanography of Her by Sarah Herrin
68. Death for Beginners by Mary Carroll-Hackett
69. Tap Out by Edgar Kunz