This year I read a total 314 books, of which, 103 were collections of poetry. Here’s the list for this year:
- Urbanshee by Siaara Freeman
- The Cabinetmaker’s Window by Steve Scafidi
- Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
- Strange Light by Derrick C. Brown
- When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother by Melissa Broder
- The Even Years of Marriage by Ash Bowen
- Flèche by Mary Jean Chan
- Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs
- Slaughterhouse by Melissa Sussens
- Little Beast by Sara Quinn Rivara
- A Dog Runs Through It by Linda Pastan
- Threshold by Joseph O. Legaspi
- Insomnia by Linda Pastan
- Traveling Light by Linda Pastan
- Songs in E– by Dan Brady
- Queen of a Rainy Country by Linda Pastan
- Girls Like Us by Elizabeth Hazen
- Heat + Pressure: Poems from War by Ben Weakley
- One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train by Michael Atkinson
- East & West by Piort Florczyk
- Truth and Consequences by Lisa E Baldwin
- How the Body Works in the Dark by Derrick C. Brown
- Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
- Almost an Elegy by Linda Pastan
- Decade of the Brain by Janine Joseph
- Bianca by Eugenia Leigh
- 40 Weeks by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
- Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm
- Body Psalms by Audrey Gidman
- Bad Animal by Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
- Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris
- My Dear Comrades by Sunu P. Chandy
- Take Me to the Water by Irene Vázquez
- Unshuttered by Patricia Smith
- Gutter by Lauren Brazeal Garza
- The Book of Goodbyes by Jillian Weise
- Rapture by Sjohnna McCray
- I Want to Make You Safe by Amy King
- Famous by Kathleen Flenniken
- The Anxiety Workbook by Christina Olson
- Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi
- Music for Landing Planes By by Eireann Lorsung
- Eyes, Stones by Elana Bell
- The Explosive Expert’s Wife by Shara Lessley
- Seed Celestial by Sara R. Burnett
- Dear Selection Committee by Melissa Studdard
- I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir by Fran Abrams
- You Cannot Save Here by Anthony Moll
- Elegies for an Empire by Le Hinton
- Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte: I was Here, Release Me by Lauren Brazeal Garza
- Forevernoon by Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir
- Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr
- Late in the Empire of Men by Christopher Kempf
- Play for Time by Paula Mendoza
- Waitress in Fall by Kristiín Ómarsdóttir
- Solastalgia by Brittney Corrigan
- The More Extravagant Feast by Leah Naomi Green
- An Essential Melancholy by Lora Robinson
- The Book of Redacted Paintings by Arthur Kayzakian
- Avoiding the Rapture by Karen J. Weyant
- A God at the Door by Tishani Doshi
- Loss and Other Rivers that Devour by Gustavo Barahona-López
- Snacks for the Love Hungry by Valerie Nies
- Customs by Solmaz Sharif
- Blowout by Denise Duhamel
- Here I Am Burn Me by Kimberly Nguyen
- Boy with a Halo at the Farmer’s Market by Sonia Greenfield
- Poetry in America by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
- Binded by H Warren
- Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph
- The Patron Saint of Making Curfew by Tim Stafford
- Landslide by Andrew Jarvis
- Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
- Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Brilliant Little Body by Brett Elizabeth Jenkins
- I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes
- Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- The Book Eaters by Carolina Hotchandani
- Book of Gods & Grudges by Jessica L. Walsh
- A Plumber’s Guide to Light by Jesse Bertron
- The Terrible Wife by Terry Ann Thaxton
- Secure the Shadow by Claudia Emerson
- Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Mothersong by Amy Acre
- Space Struck by Paige Lewis
- Trailer Park Psalms by Ryler Dustin
- Remedies for Disappearing by Alexa Patrick
- Built of All I Shape and Name by Jessica Genia Simon
- Pig by Sam Sax
- Chorus for the Kill by Allison Blevins and Josh Davis
- As Long as This Heart Beats by Kyrsta Morehouse
- Fire and Other Feelings by Ambivalently Yours
- Blossom Boy by Beck Anson
- I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas
- The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sally Wen Mao
- Green Card Girl by Shannon Wolf
- Lemon by Isabella J Mansfield
- Pink Elephant by Rachel McKibbens
- The Hollows of Bone by Isabella Mansfield
- We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt
- Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
- Fixer by Edgar Kunz
- Above Ground by Clint Smith
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