Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Best Poetry Collections of 2024

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021]

The Top 5 Poetry Collections of the Year

• Bluff
  Danez Smith
• Wrong Norma
  Anne Carson
• Root Fractures

  Poems
  Diana Khoi Nguyen
• Forest of Noise

  Poems
  Mosab Abu Toha
• The Moon That Turns You Back

  Poems
  Hala Alyan

Additional Favorite Poetry Collections

• After
  Geoffrey Brock
• Bad Mexican, Bad American

  Poems
  José Hernández Díaz
• Consider the Rooster
  Oliver Baez Bendorf
• Girl Work
  Zefyr Lisowski
• I Could Die Today and Live Again
  Summer Farah
• Instructions for the Lovers
  Dawn Lundy Martin
• Interrogation Records

  Poems
  Jeddie Sophronius
• The Invention of the Darling
  Li-Young Lee
• Modern Poetry
  Diane Seuss
• Song of My Softening
  Omotara James
• Soon and Wholly
  Idra Novey
• Theophanies
  Sarah Ghazal Ali
• Ward Toward
  Cindy Juyoung Ok
• With My Back to the World

  Poems
  Victoria Chang
• […]
  Fady Joudah