Of the 332 books I read in 2020, 82 of them were poetry. Here’s the list:
- Thrall by Natasha Trethewey
- Perennial by Kelly Forsythe
- River House: Poems by Sally Keith
- The Opposite House by Claudia Emerson
- Of Marriage by Nicole Cooley
- Fat Dreams by Nicole Steinberg
- The Amoeba Game by Tara Skurtu
- Copia by Erika Meitner
- How to Carry Fire by Christina Thatcher
- The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- What We Carry by Dorianne Laux
- Ways We Vanish by Todd Dillard
- The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang
- The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
- If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
- Hothouse by Karyna McGlynn
- MyOther Tongue by Rosa Alcala
- This Apiary by Allie Marini
- Violence / Joy / Chaos by Jane Marshall Fleming
- Dead Girls by Francesca Lia Block
- A Constellation of Kisses edited by Diane Lockward
- The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry edited by Ruth Awad and Rachel Mennies
- While They Sleep (Under the Bed is Another Country) by Raquel Salas Rivera
- Lucid: A Micro Memoir by Kia Alice Groom
- In Search of Warm Breathing Things by Katherine Gekker
- A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship by Ariel Francisco
- The Dogs I Have Kissed by Trista Mateer
- How to Hold a Flying River by Martha Kalin
- To Make Room for the Sea by Adam Clay
- Porn Carnival by Rachel Rabbit White
- Simplicity by Ruth Stone
- My House by Nikki Giovanni
- What Magick May Not Alter by JC Reilly
- The Narcoleptic Yard by Charity Ketz
- Last Psalm at Sea Level by Meg Day
- On Becoming a Role Model by Lynne Schmidt
- Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
- Honey My Tongue by Sarah Grieve
- American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins by Terrance Hayes
- This Apiary by Allie Marinia
- Exiles of Eden by Ladan Osman
- It’s Not Magic by Jon Sands
- Boat Burned by Kelly Grace Thomas
- If Men, Then by Eliza Griswold
- The Captain Lands in Paradise by Sarah Manguso
- Maps of Injury by Chera Hammons
- How to Make Goat Curry by Louise McStravick
- Things My Mother Left Behind by Susan Richardson
- Jersey Mercy by Laura McCullough
- Not Without Our Laughter by the Black Ladies Brunch Collective, edited by Celeste Doaks
- Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
- An Hour is the Doorway by James Owens
- What Work Is by Philip Levine
- in the middle of things by William Kistler
- The Anatomy of Being by Shinji Moon
- Daryl Hall is My Boyfriend by Erica Lewis
- The Willies by Adam Falkner
- Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
- Gravity by Lynne Schmidt
- Fire Escape Poems by Meesh Montoya
- Tremolo by Kelly Hansen Maher
- Lesbian Fashion Struggles by Caroline Earleywine
- Horsepower by Joy Priest
- WWJD and Other Poems by Savannah Sipple
- 28,065 Nights by Katie Manning
- Erotikon by Susan Mitchell
- The Ocean Cannot Be Blue by Kirsten Hampton
- Some of the Times by Gina Myers
- Disappearing, Inc. by Brandon Amico
- Minml Poems by Mag Gabbert
- Whatever Stasis by Chris Tonelli
- Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher
- To Everything There Is by Donna Vorreyer
- Cut to Bloom by Arhm Choi Wild
- Green by Melissa Fite Johnson
- Strange Furniture by Lannie Stabile
- The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Saint Paul Lives Here (in Minnesota) by Zach Czaia
- Obit by Victoria Chang
- Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse
- Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship by Erica Abbott
- Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun
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