Of the 332 books I read in 2020, 82 of them were poetry. Here’s the list:

  1. Thrall by Natasha Trethewey
  2. Perennial by Kelly Forsythe
  3. River House: Poems by Sally Keith
  4. The Opposite House by Claudia Emerson
  5. Of Marriage by Nicole Cooley
  6. Fat Dreams by Nicole Steinberg
  7. The Amoeba Game by Tara Skurtu
  8. Copia by Erika Meitner
  9. How to Carry Fire by Christina Thatcher
  10. The Tradition by Jericho Brown
  11. What We Carry by Dorianne Laux
  12. Ways We Vanish by Todd Dillard
  13. The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang
  14. The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
  15. If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
  16. Hothouse by Karyna McGlynn
  17. MyOther Tongue by Rosa Alcala
  18. This Apiary by Allie Marini
  19. Violence / Joy / Chaos by Jane Marshall Fleming
  20. Dead Girls by Francesca Lia Block
  21. A Constellation of Kisses edited by Diane Lockward
  22. The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry edited by Ruth Awad and Rachel Mennies
  23. While They Sleep (Under the Bed is Another Country) by Raquel Salas Rivera
  24. Lucid: A Micro Memoir by Kia Alice Groom
  25. In Search of Warm Breathing Things by Katherine Gekker
  26. A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship by Ariel Francisco
  27. The Dogs I Have Kissed by Trista Mateer
  28. How to Hold a Flying River by Martha Kalin
  29. To Make Room for the Sea by Adam Clay
  30. Porn Carnival by Rachel Rabbit White
  31. Simplicity by Ruth Stone
  32. My House by Nikki Giovanni
  33. What Magick May Not Alter by JC Reilly
  34. The Narcoleptic Yard by Charity Ketz
  35. Last Psalm at Sea Level by Meg Day
  36. On Becoming a Role Model by Lynne Schmidt
  37. Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
  38. Honey My Tongue by Sarah Grieve
  39. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins by Terrance Hayes
  40. This Apiary by Allie Marinia
  41. Exiles of Eden by Ladan Osman
  42. It’s Not Magic by Jon Sands
  43. Boat Burned by Kelly Grace Thomas
  44. If Men, Then by Eliza Griswold
  45. The Captain Lands in Paradise by Sarah Manguso
  46. Maps of Injury by Chera Hammons
  47. How to Make Goat Curry by Louise McStravick
  48. Things My Mother Left Behind by Susan Richardson
  49. Jersey Mercy by Laura McCullough
  50. Not Without Our Laughter by the Black Ladies Brunch Collective, edited by Celeste Doaks
  51. Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
  52. An Hour is the Doorway by James Owens
  53. What Work Is by Philip Levine
  54. in the middle of things by William Kistler
  55. The Anatomy of Being by Shinji Moon
  56. Daryl Hall is My Boyfriend by Erica Lewis
  57. The Willies by Adam Falkner
  58. Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
  59. Gravity by Lynne Schmidt
  60. Fire Escape Poems by Meesh Montoya
  61. Tremolo by Kelly Hansen Maher
  62. Lesbian Fashion Struggles by Caroline Earleywine
  63. Horsepower by Joy Priest
  64. WWJD and Other Poems by Savannah Sipple
  65. 28,065 Nights by Katie Manning
  66. Erotikon by Susan Mitchell
  67. The Ocean Cannot Be Blue by Kirsten Hampton
  68. Some of the Times by Gina Myers
  69. Disappearing, Inc. by Brandon Amico
  70. Minml Poems by Mag Gabbert
  71. Whatever Stasis by Chris Tonelli
  72. Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher
  73. To Everything There Is by Donna Vorreyer
  74. Cut to Bloom by Arhm Choi Wild
  75. Green by Melissa Fite Johnson
  76. Strange Furniture by Lannie Stabile
  77. The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea
  78. Saint Paul Lives Here (in Minnesota) by Zach Czaia
  79. Obit by Victoria Chang
  80. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse
  81. Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship by Erica Abbott
  82. Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun