do u have any collections u would recommend?
I think this is the right time for me to do my favorite poetry collections read in 2018. I read a lot of poetry so forgive the length.
Full-Length Poetry Collections (2018)
The Carrying by Ada Limón
If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
Premonitions by Elizabeth Schmuhl
From the Inside Quietly by Eloisa Amezcua
A Cruelty Special to Our Species by Emily Jungmin Yoon
Brown by Kevin Young
This Is How We Lost Each Other by Karese Burrows
Red Channel in the Rupture by Amber Flora Thomas
Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
She Used to Be on a Milk Carton by Kailey Tedesco
Autobiography of a Wound by Brynne Rebele-Henry
Registers of Illuminated Villages by Tarfia Faizullah
Virgin by Analicia Sotelo
High Ground Coward by Alicia Mountain
Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway
Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
bury it by Sam Sax
When Rap Spoke Straight to God by Erica Dawson
Refuse by Julian Randall
Museum of the Americas by J. Michael Martinez
Perennial by Kelly Forsythe
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Junk by Tommy Pico
New Poets of Native Nations ed. Heid E. Erdrich
Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins
Tenderling by Emily Corwin
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
Empty Clip by Emilia Phillips
Indictus by Natalie Eilbert
Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan
Wild Is the Wind by Carl Phillips
Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed
Anagnorisis by Kyle Dargan
Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey
Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism ed. Danielle Barnhart & Iris Mahan
Full-Length Poetry Collections
blud by Rachel McKibbens
The Easy Body by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
Sin: Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad
The Book of Endings by Leslie Harrison
Nature Poem by Tommy Pico
Together and By Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov
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Forgiveness Forgiveness by Shane McCrae
I have to live by Aisha Sasha John
Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton
poems for the sound of the sky before thunder by Topaz Winters
How Do I Look? by Sennah Yee
Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane
Thieves in the Afterlife by Kendra Decolo
The Yearning Feed by Manuel Paul Lopez
L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems by Elisa Gabbert
Chapbooks (2018)
We Begin in the Dark by Zara Williams
poems to carry in your pocket by Laura Villareal
As If by Anna Meister
Lemon Effigies by Zaina Alsous
Oracle: A Cosmology by Destiny Hemphill
Riding with Anne Sexton by Jen Rouse
On My Way to Liberation by H. Melt
Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body by Kanika Lawton
Dreamland for Keeps by Sarah Nichols
ghost exhibit by Melissa Atkinson Mercer
Before Vanishing by Jen Rouse
Tunsiya-Amrikiya by Leila Chatti
Ebb by Leila Chatti
Pamper Me to Hell & Back by Hera Lindsay Bird
Thin Fire by Alicia Mountain
Knock by Melissa Atkinson Mercer
Reasons for Smoking by Xandria Phillips
Bad Anatomy by Hannah Cohen
Chapbooks
al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas by George Abraham
Poor Banished Child of Eve by Joanna Climaxus (links to PDF)
Drapetomania by Jasmine Gibson
Flower Wars by Nico Amador
The Ophelia Letters by Rebecca Tamás
Mexicamericana by Eloisa Amezcua
Vibe Check by Candice Wuehle
Poetry Audiobooks (2018)
The Carrying by Ada Limón
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert
Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan
A Cruelty Special to Our Species by Emily Jungmin Yoon
If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
Brown by Kevin Young
IRL by Tommy Pico
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (technically a verse novel)
Poetry Audiobooks
Floating, Brilliant, Gone by Franny Choi
The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Zaatardiva by Suheir Hammad
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (technically a verse novel)
