Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Favorite Poetry Collections of 2022

[see also 2021]

The Top 3 Poetry Collections of The Year

• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
  Chen Chen
• The Hurting Kind
  Ada Limón
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong

Other Poetry Favorites

• Alive at the End of the World
  Saeed Jones
• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• Content Warning

  Everything
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Customs
  Solmaz Sharif
• Girls That Never Die
  Safia Elhillo
• In the Hands of the River
  Lucien Darjeun Meadows
• Magnolia
  Nina Mingya Powles
• Normal Distance
  Elisa Gabbert
• Refusenik
  Lynn Melnick
• Smoking the Bible
  Chris Abani
• The Call-Out
  Cat Fitzpatrick
• The Rupture Tense
  Jenny Xie
• The Symmetry of Fish
  Su Cho
• The Trees Witness Everything
  Victoria Chang
• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
  Franny Choi
• Togetherness
  Wo Chan
• Woman Without Shame
  Sandra Cisneros