lifeinpoetry:

I think this is the right time for me to do my favorite poetry collections read in 2018. I read a lot of poetry so forgive the length.

Full-Length Poetry Collections (2018)

• The Carrying by Ada Limón
  
• If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
  
• Premonitions by Elizabeth Schmuhl
  
• From the Inside Quietly by Eloisa Amezcua
  
• A Cruelty Special to Our Species by Emily Jungmin Yoon
• Brown by Kevin Young
  
• This Is How We Lost Each Other by Karese Burrows
  
• Red Channel in the Rupture by Amber Flora Thomas
  
• Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• She Used to Be on a Milk Carton by Kailey Tedesco
  
• Autobiography of a Wound by Brynne Rebele-Henry
  
• Registers of Illuminated Villages by Tarfia Faizullah
  
• Virgin by Analicia Sotelo
  
• High Ground Coward by Alicia Mountain
  
• Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway
  
• Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
  
• bury it by Sam Sax
  
• When Rap Spoke Straight to God by Erica Dawson
  
• Refuse by Julian Randall
  
• Museum of the Americas by J. Michael Martinez
  
• Perennial by Kelly Forsythe
• Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
  
• Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
  
• Junk by Tommy Pico
  
• New Poets of Native Nations ed. Heid E. Erdrich
  
• Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins
  
• Tenderling by Emily Corwin
  
• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
  
• Empty Clip by Emilia Phillips
  
• Indictus by Natalie Eilbert
  
• Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan
  
• Wild Is the Wind by Carl Phillips
  
• Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed
  
• Anagnorisis by Kyle Dargan
  
• Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey
  
• Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa
• Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism ed. Danielle Barnhart & Iris Mahan

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• blud by Rachel McKibbens
  
• The Easy Body by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
  
• The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
  
• Sin: Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad
  
• The Book of Endings by Leslie Harrison
  
• Nature Poem by Tommy Pico
  
• Together and By Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov
  
• how to get over by t'ai freedom ford
  
• Forgiveness Forgiveness by Shane McCrae
  
• I have to live by Aisha Sasha John
  
• Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
• Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton
  
• poems for the sound of the sky before thunder by Topaz Winters
  
• How Do I Look? by Sennah Yee
  
• Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane
  
• Thieves in the Afterlife by Kendra Decolo
  
• The Yearning Feed by Manuel Paul Lopez
  
• L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems by Elisa Gabbert
  

Chapbooks (2018)

• We Begin in the Dark by Zara Williams
  
• poems to carry in your pocket by Laura Villareal
  
• As If by Anna Meister
  
• Lemon Effigies by Zaina Alsous
  
• Oracle: A Cosmology by Destiny Hemphill
  
• Riding with Anne Sexton by Jen Rouse
  
• On My Way to Liberation by H. Melt
  
• Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body by Kanika Lawton
  
• Dreamland for Keeps by Sarah Nichols
  
• ghost exhibit by Melissa Atkinson Mercer
  
• Before Vanishing by Jen Rouse
  
• Tunsiya-Amrikiya by Leila Chatti
  
• Ebb by Leila Chatti
  
• Pamper Me to Hell & Back by Hera Lindsay Bird
  
• Thin Fire by Alicia Mountain
  
• Knock by Melissa Atkinson Mercer
  
• Reasons for Smoking by Xandria Phillips
  
• Bad Anatomy by Hannah Cohen
  

Chapbooks

• al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas by George Abraham
  
• Poor Banished Child of Eve by Joanna Climaxus (links to PDF) 
  
• Drapetomania by Jasmine Gibson
  
• Flower Wars by Nico Amador
• The Ophelia Letters by Rebecca Tamás
• Mexicamericana by Eloisa Amezcua
  
• Vibe Check by Candice Wuehle
  

Poetry Audiobooks (2018)

• The Carrying by Ada Limón
  
• Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
• Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert
• Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan
• A Cruelty Special to Our Species by Emily Jungmin Yoon
• If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
  
• Brown by Kevin Young
  
• IRL by Tommy Pico 
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (technically a verse novel)

Poetry Audiobooks

• Floating, Brilliant, Gone by Franny Choi 
  
• The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
  
• Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
  
• Zaatardiva by Suheir Hammad
  
• There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
  
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
  
• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (technically a verse novel)