As we approach the 2022 holidays—and the many ways we all celebrate it—folks are wondering what to gift their poetry-loving family and friends. What follows is a (necessarily incomplete) list of poetry collections that have been published in the second half of this year that you should consider. Here’s to exciting reads!
- Will Alexander Divine Blue Light
- David Baker Whale Fall
- Zeina Hashem Beck O
- Dionne Brand Nomenclature
- Sandra Cisneros Women Without Shame
- Ama Codjoe Bluest Nude
- Martha Collins Casualty Reports
- Nicole Caruso Garcia Oxblood
- Peter J. Harris SongAgain
- Saeed Jones Alive At the End of the World
- Nathan McClain Previously Owned
- Sharon Olds Balladz
- Ed Pavlić Call It In the Air: Poems
- Patrick Phillips Song of the Closing Doors
- Carol Potter What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess
- Glenis Redmond The Listening Skin
- Martha Ronk The Place One Is
- Amy Shimshon-Santo Catastrophic Molting
- Matthew Shenoda The Way of the Earth
- Courtney Faye Taylor Concentrate
- Jan Wesley Only So Much
- Lisabeth White American Sycamore
- Aruni Wijesinghe The litany of Missing
- Robert Wrigley The True Account of Myself as a Bird
- Jenny Xie Rupture Tense
….and if you’re looking for memoir or prose on poetry, or the spoken word:
- Donny Jackson an act of war on my belief in death
- Major Jackson A Beat Beyond
- Kiki Petrosino Bright
- Carl Phillips My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
…and not to worry about what to read in 2023. Look out for new collections from these poets whose work promises to bring the sssssizzle!
- Nicole Sealy The Ferguson Report: An Erasure
- Charif Shanahan Trace Evidence
- Evie Shockley Suddenly We
- Patricia Smith Unshuttered
- Donna Spruijt-Metz General Release From the Beginning of the World