This year I read a total 314 books, of which, 103 were collections of poetry. Here’s the list for this year:

  1. Urbanshee by Siaara Freeman
  2. The Cabinetmaker’s Window by Steve Scafidi
  3. Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
  4. Strange Light by Derrick C. Brown
  5. When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother by Melissa Broder
  6. The Even Years of Marriage by Ash Bowen
  7. Flèche by Mary Jean Chan
  8. Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs
  9. Slaughterhouse by Melissa Sussens
  10. Little Beast by Sara Quinn Rivara
  11. A Dog Runs Through It by Linda Pastan
  12. Threshold by Joseph O. Legaspi
  13. Insomnia by Linda Pastan
  14. Traveling Light by Linda Pastan
  15. Songs in E– by Dan Brady
  16. Queen of a Rainy Country by Linda Pastan
  17. Girls Like Us by Elizabeth Hazen
  18. Heat + Pressure: Poems from War by Ben Weakley
  19. One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train by Michael Atkinson
  20. East & West by Piort Florczyk
  21. Truth and Consequences by Lisa E Baldwin
  22. How the Body Works in the Dark by Derrick C. Brown
  23. Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
  24. Almost an Elegy by Linda Pastan
  25. Decade of the Brain by Janine Joseph
  26. Bianca by Eugenia Leigh
  27. 40 Weeks by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
  28. Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm
  29. Body Psalms by Audrey Gidman
  30. Bad Animal by Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
  31. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris
  32. My Dear Comrades by Sunu P. Chandy
  33. Take Me to the Water by Irene Vázquez
  34. Unshuttered by Patricia Smith
  35. Gutter by Lauren Brazeal Garza
  36. The Book of Goodbyes by Jillian Weise
  37. Rapture by Sjohnna McCray
  38. I Want to Make You Safe by Amy King
  39. Famous by Kathleen Flenniken
  40. The Anxiety Workbook by Christina Olson
  41. Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi
  42. Music for Landing Planes By by Eireann Lorsung
  43. Eyes, Stones by Elana Bell
  44. The Explosive Expert’s Wife by Shara Lessley
  45. Seed Celestial by Sara R. Burnett
  46. Dear Selection Committee by Melissa Studdard
  47. I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir by Fran Abrams
  48. You Cannot Save Here by Anthony Moll
  49. Elegies for an Empire by Le Hinton
  50. Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte: I was Here, Release Me by Lauren Brazeal Garza
  51. Forevernoon by Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir
  52. Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr
  53. Late in the Empire of Men by Christopher Kempf
  54. Play for Time by Paula Mendoza
  55. Waitress in Fall by Kristiín Ómarsdóttir
  56. Solastalgia by Brittney Corrigan
  57. The More Extravagant Feast by Leah Naomi Green
  58. An Essential Melancholy by Lora Robinson
  59. The Book of Redacted Paintings by Arthur Kayzakian
  60. Avoiding the Rapture by Karen J. Weyant
  61. A God at the Door by Tishani Doshi
  62. Loss and Other Rivers that Devour by Gustavo Barahona-López
  63. Snacks for the Love Hungry by Valerie Nies
  64. Customs by Solmaz Sharif
  65. Blowout by Denise Duhamel
  66. Here I Am Burn Me by Kimberly Nguyen
  67. Boy with a Halo at the Farmer’s Market by Sonia Greenfield
  68. Poetry in America by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
  69. Binded by H Warren
  70. Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph
  71. The Patron Saint of Making Curfew by Tim Stafford
  72. Landslide by Andrew Jarvis
  73. Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
  74. Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  75. Brilliant Little Body by Brett Elizabeth Jenkins
  76. I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes
  77. Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich
  78. The Book Eaters by Carolina Hotchandani
  79. Book of Gods & Grudges by Jessica L. Walsh
  80. A Plumber’s Guide to Light by Jesse Bertron
  81. The Terrible Wife by Terry Ann Thaxton
  82. Secure the Shadow by Claudia Emerson
  83. Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa
  84. Mothersong by Amy Acre
  85. Space Struck by Paige Lewis
  86. Trailer Park Psalms by Ryler Dustin
  87. Remedies for Disappearing by Alexa Patrick
  88. Built of All I Shape and Name by Jessica Genia Simon
  89. Pig by Sam Sax
  90. Chorus for the Kill by Allison Blevins and Josh Davis
  91. As Long as This Heart Beats by Kyrsta Morehouse
  92. Fire and Other Feelings by Ambivalently Yours
  93. Blossom Boy by Beck Anson
  94. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas
  95. The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sally Wen Mao
  96. Green Card Girl by Shannon Wolf
  97. Lemon by Isabella J Mansfield
  98. Pink Elephant by Rachel McKibbens
  99. The Hollows of Bone by Isabella Mansfield
  100. We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt
  101. Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
  102. Fixer by Edgar Kunz
  103. Above Ground by Clint Smith