Poetry Read in 2021

Of the 319 books I read in 2021, 104 of them were poetry, that’s 2 books of poetry per week! Below is the list of poetry that made up my 2021.

1. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets
2. Fantasia for the Man in Blue by Tommye Blount
3. Keep This to Yourself by Kerrin McCadden
4. The Ice Storm by Meg Kearney
5. Somehow by Helen Calcutt
6. The Devastation by Jill Alexander Essbaum
7. Just Let Me Have This by Heather Sweeney
8. Pretty to Think So: A Life in Boys by Samantha Edmonds
9. Not Vanishing by Chrystos
10. The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo
11. Winter Garden by Pablo Neruda
12. Threshold by Shirley Kaufman
13. Moth Funerals by Gaia Rajan
14. Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning by Shuly Xochitl Cawood
15. at first & then by Danielle Rose
16. Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts
17. Come, Thief by Jane Hirshfield
18. A Pillow Book by Suzanne Buffam
19. Let Go of the Hands You Hold by Marissa Glover
20. My Dinner with Ron Jeremy by Kendra DeColo
21. Otherwise: New and Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon
22. No Small Gift by Jennifer Franklin
23. A Little Blood, A Little Rain by Mary Carroll-Hackett
24. Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn
25. The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds
26. Made to Explode by Sandra Beasley
27. Self-Portrait With Cephalopod by Kathryn Smith
28. Come-Hither Honeycomb by Erin Belieu
29. Beethoven Variations by Ruth Padel
30. Fear of Description by Daniel Poppick
31. Still Life With Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl by Diane Seuss
32. Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat by Khalisa Rae
33. Dead Uncles by Ben Kline
34. Dad Jokes From Late in the Patriarchy by Amorak Huey
35. Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery by Jack McCarthy
36. Sh!t Men Say to Me: A Poetry Anthology in Response to Toxic Masculinity
37. Dearly by Margaret Atwood
38. Rookery by Traci Brimhall
39. Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus by Lannie Stabile
40. Love Most of You Too by Dustin Brookshire
41. No Texting at the Dinner Table by Christopher Goodrich
42. When We Were Fearsome by Joanna Penn Cooper
43. A Week With Beijing by Meg Eden
44. Where the Water Begins by Kimberly Casey
45. Come Celebrate With Me: a VOICES memorial tribute to Lucille Clifton, edited by Michael S. Glaser
46. Deluge by Leila Chatti
47. Still Life with Mother and Knife by Chelsea Rathburn
48. Spectra by Ashley Toliver
49. Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine
50. Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood
51. Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
52. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Joy Harjo
53. Another City by David Keplinger
54. Nepantla: An Anthology of Queer Poets of Color, edited by Christopher Soto
55. Dialogues with Rising Tides by Kelli Russell Agodon
56. Indigo by Ellen Bass
57. All Sex and No Story by Laura Passin
58. Point Blank by Alan King
59. Look Look Look by Callista Buchen
60. Borrowing Your Body by Laura Passin
61. Our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall
62. Thrust by Heather Derr-Smith
63. Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era by Chad Bennett
64. Burning Sugar by Cicely Belle Blain
65. Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong
66. Be Holding by Ross Gay
67. Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson
68. A Fortune For Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib
69. An Infusion of Violets by Nancy Naomi Calson
70. Bloodwarm by Taylor Byas
71. Reparations Now! by Ashley M. Jones
72. Fat Girl Forms by Stephanie Rogers
73. Doubter’s Hymnal by Laura Cok
74. Wild Things by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
75. Between Gods by Donna Lewis Cowan
76. Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf by Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes
77. Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri
78. Cruel Futures by Carmen Gimenez Smith
79. Magical Negro by Morgan Parker
80. Bury It by Sam Sax
81. Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood
82. The Blessing of Dark Water by Elizabeth Lyons
83. Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
84. Immuk and Cookies by Jen Stever
85. Play Dead by Francine J. Harris
86. Every Little Vanishing by Sheleen McElhinney
87. Post Traumatic Hood Disorder by David Tomas Martinez
88. So Much of Everything by Jenn Koiter
89. Homecoming by Julia Alvarez
90. Torn Up by C. Cimmone
91. Notes on the Assemblage by Juan Felipe Herrera
92. Dear Delinquent by Ann Townsend
93. Terrible Blooms by Melissa Stein
94. Bellocq’s Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey
95. Arrival by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
96. The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded by Molly McCully Brown
97. Abide by Jake Adam York
98. If God Is a Virus by Seema Yasmin
99. Half-Hazard by Kristen Tracy
100. Afterland by Mai Der Vang
101. Little Envelope of Earth Conditions by Cori A. Winrock
102. Lesson on Expulsion by Erika L. Sanchez
103. Eye Level by Jenny Xie
104. Talk Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa