Year-End Lists

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Discipline - Jane Yeh

Our Favorite Poetry Books of 2020 Hyperallergic

I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First - Angie Mazakis

Best Poetry of 2020 Boston Globe

Wicked Enchantment - Wanda Coleman

The Best Poetry of 2020 New York Times: Elisa Gabbert

DMZ Colony - Don Mee Choi

Best Poetry Books of 2020 Publishers Weekly

Homie - Danez Smith

Favorite Poetry Collections of 2020 David Gutowski

Best Poetry of 2020 Library Journal

The Malevolent Volume - Justin Phillip Reed

Best Poetry Collections of 2020 Washington Post: Troy Jollimore

Postcolonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz

Best Poetry Books of 2020 Guardian

A Nail the Evening Hangs On - Monica Sok

Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 New York Public Library

DMZ Colony - Don Mee Choi

Poetry 2020 National Book Award

Hybrida - Tina Chang

5 Best Poetry Books of 2019 Publishers Weekly

The Year of Blue Water - Yanyi

10 Great Poetry Collections You May Have Missed Chicago Review of Books: Anthony Frame

The Next Loves - Stéphane Bouquet

The Best Poetry Books of 2019 New York Times: David Orr

Soft Science - Franny Choi

14 Unmissable Poetry Books from 2019 Electric Lit: Christina Orlando

Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky

Best Poetry Books of 2019 New York Public Library

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

Best Poetry of 2019 BuzzFeed

Dunce - Mary Ruefle

Favorite Poetry of 2019 Dennis Cooper

NDN Coping Mechanisms - Billy-Ray Belcourt

Best Poetry of 2019 Library Journal

Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky

Best Poetry Books of 2019 Via Negativa

Time - Etel Adnan

Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2019 Entropy

The Best Poetry Collections of 2019 Washington Post

Sight Lines - Arthur Sze

Poetry 2019 National Book Award

The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade Lit Hub

Indecency - Justin Phillip Reed

Best Poetry of 2018 Book Riot

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