Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Best Poetry Collections of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021]

Top 5 Poetry Collections of the Year

• Resting Bitch Face
  Taylor Byas
• Blue Opening
  Chet'la Sebree
• Becoming Ghost
  Cathy Linh Che
• Scorched Earth
  Tiana Clark
• Helen of Troy, 1993
  Maria Zoccola

Additional Favorite Poetry Collections

• Disintegration Made Plain and Easy
  Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
• The Intentions of Thunder

  New and Selected Poems
  Patricia Smith
• I Do Know Some Things
  Richard Siken
• Night Watch
  Kevin Young
• The New Economy
  Gabrielle Calvocoressi
• Agrippina the Younger
  Diana Arterian
• New and Collected Hell

  A Poem
  Shane McCrae
• Algarabía

  The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya
  Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
• Cold Thief Place
  Esther Lin
• Cosmic Tantrum
  Sarah Lyn Rogers
• We Contain Landscapes
  Patrycja Humienik
• TERROR COUNTER
  Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
• We Had Mansions
  Mandy Shunnarah
• murmurations
  Anthony Thomas Lombardi
• Wildness Before Something Sublime
  Leila Chatti