Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Best Poetry Collections of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2021]

The Top 4 Poetry Collections of The Year

• Judas Goat
  Gabrielle Bates
• Pig
  Sam Sax
• The Kingdom of Surfaces
  Sally Wen Mao
• Fixer
  Edgar Kunz

The Best Poetry Collections of the Year

• I Do Everything I'm Told
  Megan Fernandes
• I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
  Taylor Byas
• Above Ground
  Clint Smith
• Promises of Gold
  José Olivarez
• Trace Evidence
  Charif Shanahan
• The Diaspora Sonnets
  Oliver de la Paz
• Chrome Valley
  Mahogany L. Browne
• a "Working Life"
  Eileen Myles
• Couplets

  A Love Story
  Maggie Millner
• All Souls
  Saskia Hamilton
• So to Speak
  Terrance Hayes
• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• The Lights
  Ben Lerner
• To 2040
  Jorie Graham
• Ursula K. Le Guin

  Collected Poems
  Ursula K. Le Guin
• From From
  Monica Youn