My annual list of books I enjoyed reading over the previous year; not a “best of” list at all, just works that stuck with me. As always, I present these in alphabetical order by author. They are a mix of genres and a mish-mash of books recently published and books I either finally got around to reading or have discovered years after they’ve been published:
- The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying by Brent Armendinger
- Chord by Rick Barot
- The Book of Frank by CA Conrad
- The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems by Olena Kalytiak Davis
- When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
- Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, & New Collaborations by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
- From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes by B. C. Edwards
- Barely Composed: Poems by Alice Fulton
- Scattered at Sea by Amy Gerstler
- You Could Learn a Lot by RJ Gibson
- Our Lady of the Crossword Puzzle by Rigoberto Gonzalez
- How to be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
- When I Was a Twin by Michael Klein
- Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue by William Logan
- Hiccups by Joe Pan
- American Barricade by Danniel Schoonebeek
- Fibonacci Batman: New & Selected Poems by Maureen Seaton
- The New Black by Evie Schockley
- [insert] boy by Danez Smith
- life-list by Jessica Smith
- As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
- Spectacle: Stories by Susan Steinberg