Poetry Read in 2022

Another year of poetry! This year I read a total of 329 books, of which, 118 were poetry. Below is list of poetry I read this year!

1. Sun in Days by Meghan O’Rourke
2. Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
3. Daughters by Brittney Corrigan
4. I hope this finds you well by Kate Baer
5. Field Study by Chet’la Sebree
6. Goldenrod by Maggie Smith
7. What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
8. Good Boi by Jason B Crawford
9. Careful Cartography by Devon Bohm
10. Revenge Body by Rachel Wiley
11. Somewhere, a Woman Lowers the Hem of Her Skirt by Laurie Rachkus Uttich
12. American Zero by Stella Wong
13. Fog by Dakotah Jennifer
14. Mostly Human by Sheila Squillante
15. We’re Doing Witchcraft by E. Kristin Anderson
16. Broken On the Wheel by Barbara Costas-Biggs
17. Whatever Love Means by Christine No
18. How to Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy by Joan Kwon Glass
19. Empire of Surrender by Michael Schmeltzer
20. We Were Not Alone: A Community Building Art Works Anthology
21. Hellraiser by Annmarie O’Connell
22. Imago, Dei by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
23. Night Swim by Joan Kwon Glass
24. Imitating Light by Roseanna Alice Boswell
25. Subtexts by Dan Brady
26. Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann
27. I Love You, Call Me Back by Sabrina Benaim
28. Tomorrow’s Woman by Greta Bellamacina
29. Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia
30. Erou by Maya Phillips
31. Brute by Emily Skaja
32. What is Otherwise Infinite by Bianca Stone
33. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
34. SexyTime by Lynn(e) Schmidt
35. Useful Junk by Erika Meitner
36. The Loneliest Girl by Kate Gale
37. A Falling Knife has No Handle by Emily O’Neill
38. Witch Doctrine by Annah Browning
39. Dispatches from Frontier Schools by Sarah Beddow
40. Devil’s Lake by Sarah M. Sala
41. Chronicle the Body by M Mick Powell
42. Reservoir by Taneum Bambrick
43. Emouchure by Emilia Phillips
44. A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line by Vi Khi Nao
45. Slash / Slash by Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko
46. How to Bury a Boy at Sea by Phil Goldstein
47. Ugly Music by Diannely Antigua
48. How to Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong
49. The Sobbing School by Joshua Bennett
50. Improvisation Without Accompaniment by Matt Morton
51. The Clearing by Allison Adair
52. Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss
53. An Otherwise Healthy Woman by Amy Haddad
54. Self Storage by Rebecca Hoogs
55. Lessons on Being Tenderheaded by Janae Johnson
56. Girl Who by Allison Wilkins
57. I Take Back the Sponge Cake by Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson
58. Jesus Comes to Me as Judy Garland by David J.S. Pickering
59. Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
60. You Don’t Have to Be Everything edited by Diana Whitney
61. Something Dark to Shine In by Inés Pujos
62. The Animal At Your Side by Megan Alpert
63. Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
64. The Bicycle Slow Race by Claire Bateman
65. The Irrationalist by Suzanne Buffam
66. Food for the Winter by Geraldine Connolly
67. Ideal Cities by Erika Meitner
68. The Only Worlds We Know by Michael Lee
69. Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Gluck
70. Otro/Patria by chibbi
71. Small Dog by Abigail Welhouse
72. Too Many Humans of New York by Abigail Welhouse
73. Handwriting by Micahel Ondaatje
74. Chromatic by H.L. Hix
75. All Possible Histories by Sonia Greenfield
76. In a Time of Violence by Eavan Boland
77. Death Comes Riding by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
78. What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Marge Piercy
79. The Great World of Days edited by Gregory Luce, Anne Becker, and Jeffrey Banks
80. All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran
81. Love and I by Fanny Howe
82. The Many Names for Mother by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
83. If This is the Age We End Discovery by Rosebud Ben-Oni
84. Birthright by George Abraham
85. Boyish by Brody Parrish Craig
86. Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix
87. A Doll for Throwing by Mary Jo Bang
88. Slant Six by Erin Belieu
89. What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C. Bailey
90. More Than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett
91. My Daily Actions, or the Meteorites by S. Brook Corfman
92. Advice from the Lights by Stephen Burt
93. Owed by Joshua Bennett
94. Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts
95. Say It Hurts by Llisa Summe
96. Before Isadore by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
97. The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
98. The Study of Human Life by Joshua Bennett
99. This is a Story You Already Know by Lois Marie Harrod
100. Twerk by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
101. Red Sugar by Jan Beatty
102. Hot Flash Sonnets by Moira Egan
103. Little Murders Everywhere by Rebecca Morgan Frank
104. Night Shift by Serena J. Fox
105. Bloodroot by Catherine Jagoe
106. Thieves in the Afterlife by Kendra DeColo
107. Girl as Birch by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
108. Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
109. Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo
110. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
111. The Best of Write Bloody Anthology edited by Derrick Brown
112. Undoll by Tanya Grae
113. And Yet by Kate Baer
114. Your Emergency Contact has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
115. How to Read by Thomas Richardson
116. Queen for a Day by Denise Duhamel
117. I Was the Jukebox by Sandra Beasley
118. The Faust Woman Poems by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky