Year-End Lists

Connie Pan: 12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023, as published by Book Riot

[see also 2022]

• Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
  K. Iver
• Judas Goat
  Gabrielle Bates
• Bianca
  Eugenia Leigh
• Return
  Emily Lee Luan
• Aina Hanau / Birth Land
  Brandy Nālani McDougall
• I Do Everything I'm Told
  Megan Fernandes
• The Ferguson Report

  An Erasure
  Nicole Sealey
• Grand Tour
  Elisa Gonzalez
• We Call to the Eye & the Night

  Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage
  Hala Alyan & Zeina Hashem Beck (editors)
• Organs of Little Importance
  Adrienne Chung
• Aster of Ceremonies
  JJJJJerome Ellis
• Orders of Service

  A Fugue
  Willie Lee Kinard III

Rishi Dastidar: Best Poetry Books of 2023, as published by The Guardian

• To 2040
  Jorie Graham
• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• indiom
  Daljit Nagra
• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• Self-Portrait as Othello
  Jason Allen-Paisant
• Bad Diaspora Poems
  Momtaza Mehri
• Octopus Mind
  Rachel Carney
• Crisis Actor
  Declan Ryan
• Isdal
  Susannah Dickey
• We Play Here
  Dawn Watson
• Bright Fear
  Mary Jean Chan
• The Home Child
  Liz Berry
• Anne-thology

  Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare
  Anne Hathaway (various editors)
• Contraflow

  Lines of Englishness 1922-2022
  John Greening & Kevin Gardner (editors)
• Mapping the Future

  The Complete Works
  Karen McCarthy Woolf & Nathalie Teitler
• Trace Evidence
  Charif Shanahan
• Pitch & Glint
  Lutz Seiler

Dasia Moore: 6 Favorite Poetry Collections of 2023, as published by The Boston Globe

1. suddenly we
   Evie Shockley
2. I Do Everything I'm Told
   Megan Fernandes
3. In Gorgeous Display
   Ugochukwu Damian Okpara
4. The Lights
   Ben Lerner
5. Removal Acts
   Erin Marie Lynch
6. Village
   LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

Elisa Gabbert: The Best Poetry of 2023, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

• Auction
  Quan Barry
• From From
  Monica Youn
• Negro Mountain
  C.S. Giscombe
• Phantom Pain Wings
  Kim Hyesoon
• The Thomas Salto
  Timmy Straw

Library Journal: Best Poetry of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2016]

• To 2040
  Jorie Graham
• Calligraphies
  Marilyn Hacker
• So to Speak
  Terrance Hayes
• School of Instructions

  A Poem
  Ishion Hutchinson
• The Many Hundreds of the Scent
  Shane McCrae
• What You Want
  Maureen N. McLane
• West

  A Translation
  Paisley Rekdal
• Tanya
  Brenda Shaughnessy
• suddenly we
  Evie Shockley
• From From
  Monica Youn
• How Fire Descends

  New and Selected Poems
  Serhiy Zhadan

Maria Crawford: Best Postry Books of 2023, as published by Financial Times

[see also 2022]

• Mothersong
  Amy Acre
• Taking Liberties
  Leontia Flynn
• To 2040
  Jorie Graham
• School of Instructions

  A Poem
  Ishion Hutchinson
• The Lights
  Ben Lerner

Kate Kellaway: Best Poetry Books of 2023, as published by The Guardian

• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• School of Instructions

  A Poem
  Ishion Hutchinson
• Was It for This
  Hannah Sullivan
• Enter the Water
  Jack Wiltshire
• From Our Own Fire
  William Letford

Electric Lit: Best Poetry Collections of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021]

The Top 4 Poetry Collections of The Year

• Judas Goat
  Gabrielle Bates
• Pig
  Sam Sax
• The Kingdom of Surfaces
  Sally Wen Mao
• Fixer
  Edgar Kunz

The Best Poetry Collections of the Year

• I Do Everything I'm Told
  Megan Fernandes
• I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
  Taylor Byas
• Above Ground
  Clint Smith
• Promises of Gold
  José Olivarez
• Trace Evidence
  Charif Shanahan
• The Diaspora Sonnets
  Oliver de la Paz
• Chrome Valley
  Mahogany L. Browne
• a "Working Life"
  Eileen Myles
• Couplets

  A Love Story
  Maggie Millner
• All Souls
  Saskia Hamilton
• So to Speak
  Terrance Hayes
• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• The Lights
  Ben Lerner
• To 2040
  Jorie Graham
• Ursula K. Le Guin

  Collected Poems
  Ursula K. Le Guin
• From From
  Monica Youn

Srikanth Reddy: 11 Great Poetry Collections from 2023, as published by The Washington Post

• April
  Sara Nicholson
• The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos
  Fernando Pessoa
• Hydra Medusa
  Brandon Shimoda
• Information Desk

  An Epic
  Robyn Schiff
• The Lights
  Ben Lerner
• mahogany
  erica lewis
• Phantom Pain Wings
  Kim Hyesoon
• School of Instructions

  A Poem
  Ishion Hutchinson
• The Thomas Salto
  Timmy Straw
• What You Want
  Maureen N. McLane
• Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise
  Anthony Madrid

National Book Award: Poetry 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2013]

Winner

• from unincorporated territory [åmot]
  Craig Santos Perez

Finalists

• How to Communicate
  John Lee Clark
• suddenly we
  Evie Shockley
• Tripas
  Brandon Som
• From From
  Monica Youn

Longlist

• Vexations
  Annelyse Gelman
• Promises of Gold
  José Olivarez
• West

  A Translation
  Paisley Rekdal
• Trace Evidence
  Charif Shanahan
• The Diaspora Sonnets
  Oliver de la Paz