Year-End Lists

Literary Hub: Favorite Poetry Collections of 2017, as selected by 50 poets and writers

• MyOTHER TONGUE
  Rosa Alcalá
• Across the Vapour Gulf
  Will Alexander
• Adrenalin
  Ghayath Almadhoun
• The Codex Mojaodicus
  Steven Alvarez
• John Ashbery

  Collected Poems 1991-2000
  John Ashbery
• Field Theories
  Samiya Bashir
• My Lai
  Carmen Berenguer
• Half-Light

  Collected Poems 1965-2016
  Frank Bidart
• Of Mongrelitude
  Julian Talamantez Brolaski
• You Envelop Me
  Laynie Browne
• Advice from the Lights
  Stephen Burt
• Rocket Fantastic
  Gabrielle Calvocoressi
• Mock Trough Rasping Crow
  Billy Cancel
• Deuda & Literatura
  Omar Chauvié
• recombinant
  Ching-In Chen
• Death by Sex Machine
  Franny Choi
• Perverse, All Monstrous
  Cody-Rose Clevidence
• Tantrum
  Stella Corso
• The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky
  Fay Zwicky
• Le Jardin de M.
  Marcella Durand
• Synæsthesium
  Moira Egan
• Calligraphy Typewriters

  The Selected Poems of Larry Eigner
  Larry Eigner
• Gates & Fields
  Jennifer Firestone
• how to get over
  t’ai freedom ford
• At the Burning Abyss

  Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem
  Franz Fühmann
• The End of Something
  Kate Greenstreet
• Blue Pearl
  Lesley Harrison
• Velvet
  Tom Healy
• Debths
  Susan Howe
• Motherwort
  Lyric Hunter
• The End

  Part One
  MC Hyland
• In Full Velvet
  Jenny Johnson
• My Ida
  Simone Kearney
• Tony Greene Era
  Kevin Killian
• I Am Flying into Myself

  Selected Poems, 1960-2014
  Bill Knott
• Lounge Act
  Wayne Koestenbaum
• The Swimmer
  John Koethe
• WHEREAS
  Layli Long Soldier
• Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment
  Alessandra Lynch
• Good Stock Strange Blood
  Dawn Lundy Martin
• The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters
  Bernadette Mayer
• blud
  Rachel McKibbens
• Subject to Change

  Trans Poetry & Conversation
  Edited by H Melt
• Wild Geese Returning

  Chinese Reversible Poems
  Michèle Métail
• In Darkest Capital

  Collected Poems
  Drew Milne
• Zippers & Jeans
  J. Peter Moore
• Afterglow

  (a dog memoir)
  Eileen Myles
• Descent & Other Poems
  Timothy Ogene
• Augury
  Eric Pankey
• Thousand Star Hotel
  Bao Phi
• Fiends Fell
  Tom Pickard
• I’m So Fine

  A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
  Khadijah Queen
• Matria
  Alexandra Regalado
• Invocation to Daughters
  Barbara Jane Reyes
• Shadowboxing

  poems & impersonations
  Joseph Rios
• Anemal Uter Meck
  Mg Roberts
• Quickening Fields
  Pattiann Rogers
• A TransPacific Poetics
  Edited by Lisa Samuels & Sawako Nakayasu
• Ordinary Beast
  Nicole Sealey
• There You Are

  Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
  Joanne Kyger
• Royals
  Cedar Sigo
• Fort Not
  Emily Skillings
• Don’t Call Us Dead
  Danez Smith
• The New York Editions
  Michael D. Snediker
• Poems (2012-2017)
  Oki Sogumi
• Gatherest
  Sasha Steensen
• Gondwana
  Nathaniel Tarn
• Afterland
  Mai Der Vang
• Beast Meridian
  Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
• Crawlspace
  Nikki Wallschlaeger
• Out of the Question

  Selected Poems (1963-2003)
  Lewis Warsh
• Sonnets from Elizabeth’s
  Rosanne Wasserman
• In the Still of the Night
  Dara Wier
• The Silence That Remains

  Selected Poems
  Ghassan Zaqtan
• Songs for Schizoid Siblings
  Lionel Ziprin