New York Public Library: Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020

[see also 2019]

• Finna
  Nate Marshall
• The Galleons
  Rick Barot
• Grimoire
  Cherene Sherrard
• Gut Botany
  Petra Kuppers
• Homie
  Danez Smith
• Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
  John Murillo
• My Baby First Birthday
  Jenny Zhang
• A Nail the Evening Hangs On
  Monica Sok
• The Nancy Reagan Collection
  Maxe Crandall
• Postcolonial Love Poem
  Natalie Diaz

Publishers Weekly: 5 Best Poetry Books of 2019

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2012]

• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky
• Hybrida
  Tina Chang
• The Octopus Museum
  Brenda Shaughnessy
• To the Wren: Collected & New Poems
  Jane Mead
• The Tradition
  Jericho Brown

Anthony Frame: 10 Great Poetry Collections You May Have Missed, as published by Chicago Review of Books

• The Year of Blue Water
  Yanyi
• Bodega
  Su Hwang
• A Sand Book
  Ariana Reines
• turn around, BRXGHT XYXS
  Rosebud Ben-Oni
• Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy
  Andrés Cerpa
• Mannequin in the Nude
  Logan February
• Hard Damage
  Aria Aber
• The Uninhabitable
  Jesse Rice-Evans
• Hull
  Xandria Phillips
• Afakasi - Half-Caste
  Hali F Sofala-Jones

David Orr: The Best Poetry Books of 2019, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015]

• The Next Loves
  Stéphane Bouquet
• Nightshade
  Andrea Cohen
• Days & Days
  Michael Dickman
• Mosses and Lichens
  Devin Johnston
• All That Beauty
  Fred Moten
• Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems
  Campbell McGrath
• To the Wren: Collected & New Poems
  Jane Mead
• A Piece of Good News
  Katie Peterson
• No Matter
  Jana Prikryl
• Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
  Keith S. Wilson

Christina Orlando: 14 Unmissable Poetry Books from 2019, as published by Electric Lit

• Soft Science
  Franny Choi
• Build Yourself a Boat
  Camonghne Felix
• A Fortune for Your Disaster
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Odes to Lithium
  Shira Erlichman
• while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
  Raquel Salas Rivera
• 1919
  Eve L. Ewing
• Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A Cliff
  Sara Borjas
• Advantages of Being Evergreen
  Oliver Baez Bendorf
• Space Struck
  Paige Lewis
• Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
  Jake Skeets
• Careen
  Grace Shuyi Liew
• Heed the Hollow
  Malcolm Tariq
• Lima :: Limón
  Natalie Scenters-Zapico
• Library of Small Catastrophes
  Alison C. Rollins

Via Negativa: Best Poetry Books of 2019, compiled from the responses of poets and bloggers who were asked for their favorite collections of the year

• Something Like Forgiveness
  Rebecca Schumejda
• A Machine for Remembering
  Justen Ahren
• Agringada: Like a gringa, like a foreigner
  Tariro Ndoro
• Space Struck
  Paige Lewis
• Gravity Assist
  Martha Silano
• tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
  Lee Ann Roripaugh
• Nightingale
  Paisley Rekdal
• Without Protection
  Gala Mukomolova
• Cyborg Detective
  Jillian Weise
• Soft Science
  Franny Choi
• Nobody
  Alice Oswald
• Saint Worm
  Hailey Leithauser
• come see about me, marvin
  Brian Gilmore
• Tap Out
  Edgar Kunz
• Lima :: Limón
  Natalie Scenters-Zapico
• Long River
  Yang Jian
• Dunce
  Mary Ruefle
• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky
• Honeyfish
  Lauren K. Alleyne
• Battle Dress
  Karen Skolfield
• Hail and Farewell
  Abby E. Murray
• Scattered Clouds
  Reuben Jackson

New York Public Library: Best Poetry Books of 2019

[see also 2020]

• The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
  jayy dodd
• The Crazy Bunch
  Willie Perdomo
• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky
• In Her Feminine Sign
  Dunya Mikhail
• Library of Small Catastrophes
  Alison C. Rollins
• Lima :: Limón
  Natalie Scenters-Zapico
• Soft Science
  Franny Choi
• Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone
  Thiahera Nurse
• tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
  Lee Ann Roripaugh
• The Year of Blue Water
  Yanyi

BuzzFeed: Best Poetry of 2019

[see also 2016, 2015]

• Library of Small Catastrophes
  Alison C. Rollins
• Magical Negro
  Morgan Parker
• Lima :: Limón
  Natalie Scenters-Zapico
• Arias
  Sharon Olds
• The Tradition
  Jericho Brown
• Feed
  Tommy Pico
• 1919
  Eve L. Ewing

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Poetry of 2019, in no order

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012]

• Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith
  Ed Smith
• The Government Lake: Last Poems
  James Tate
• The Intangibles
  Elaine Equi
• Hysteria
  Kim Yideum
• Deathwish
  Ben Fama
• Raking Leaves
  Joseph Grantham
• Big Cabin
  Ron Padgett
• A Sand Book
  Ariana Reines
• You Name It
  Colin Herd
• Year By Year
  Lynne Sachs
• More Gone
  Edmund Berrigan
• Arcana: A Stephen Jonas Reader
  Stephen Jonas
• Dunce
  Mary Ruefle
• Ashenfolk
  Joseph Mosconi
• A Drink of Red Mirror
  Kim Hyesoon
• Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
  Bob Kaufman
• Wallpaper
  Bruce Boone
• Words
  Helena Österlund
• Foghorn Leghorn
  Big Bruiser Dope Boy
• Thought Balloon
  Kit Robinson

Library Journal: Best Poetry of 2019

[see also 2016]

• NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
  Billy-Ray Belcourt
• The Tradition
  Jericho Brown
• Woods and Clouds Interchangeable
  Michael Earl Craig
• In the Months of My Son's Recovery
  Kate Daniels
• Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going
  Jessica Jacobs
• Deaf Republic
  Ilya Kaminsky
• Valuing
  Christopher Kondrich
• Oculus
  Sally Wen Mao
• Ridiculous Light
  Valencia Robin
• The Octopus Museum
  Brenda Shaughnessy