READ POETRY IN 2013

In 2013, I read 319 publications by poets or on poetry. The list below is alphabetized by the poets’ and/or editors’ last names.

I’m happy at reaching my goal of reading more poetry than I did in 2012 when I read 263 such books. (Starting with 2009, I began blogging annual poetry reading lists at my prior blog),

This list does not necessarily portray the type of poetry I favor. In reading poems as a practitioner, I just want to know what's out there. I've found that POV to be more elucidating than trying to read through some defined aesthetic gate. The process is not just more educational but also makes for the fabulous moments of welcome discoveries—in 2013, several of my discoveries made it to another project that I began in mid-2013, my LinkedInPoetry Recommendations (LPR).

My ethical desire is to read every poem, which means I often randomly grab from a huge TO-READ pile (which includes but is not limited to the review copy list for Galatea Resurrects for which I serve as Editor). I also end up reading a few books for unique reasons--like if my local library stocks a new poetry book, I check it out in order to prove there's demand for poetry...and then inevitably read it before I return it.

Did I like every book I read on this list? Nope, but that's irrelevant. Even the most banal poem has a place in this wonderland-landscape of Poetry. All poems are welcome to me (not to mention how the great poem might require less-than-stellar poems as conditions precedent to its making). Contrary to would-be pundits' proclamations, THERE ARE NEVER ENOUGH POEMS. Having said that, I love the quality of the work I've read in 2013 (more than makes up for all the crappy novels I read for mental popcorn) -- so THANK YOU, POETS! (If you're a poet and don't see your book on this list, I hope to read it in the future.)

Here then is a poetic Relished W(h)ine List for 2013, with some brief notes on them to the extent I was moved to comment at the time I read them. (The List is called "W(h)ine" partly because my intermittent postings usually include wines I'd recently imbibed--why not?) The list below (in alphabetical order by author or editor) is divided into poetry collections and other forms by poets or involving poetry (e.g. journals, anthologies, memoirs, novels):


2013 Poetry Collections:
FORTY-ONE JANE DOE’S by Carrie Olivia Adams (Interestingly interesting. LinkedIn Poetry Recommendation (LPR) #88)

EACH CHARTERED STREET by Sebastian Agudelo

MASH NOTE by George Albon

ALPHABET LIFE by George Albon

NONE by George Albon

WHAT I’VE STOLEN, WHAT I’VE EARNED by Sherman Alexie

MANTIC by Maureen Alsop

From THE WAR BETWEEN THE SONS OF DARKNESS & LIGHT by Michael Annis & Brave New World Order and jim mccrary

DISTURBANCE by Ivy Alvarez

HAIKU by Ivy Alvarez (fabulous)

A CUP OF SUN: A BOOK OF POEMS by Joan Walsh Anglund

ALL THIS FALLING AWAY by Tim Armentrout (pure poetry—a feat!)

FOUR BUTTONS TWO HOLES FOUR BROOMS, poetry by Jean Arp (wonderful! Just check out the link!)

DEATH CENTOS by Diana Arterian (well-wrought. LPR #78)

VARIATIONS ON PAINTING A ROOM: POEMS 2000-2010 by Alan Baker (magnificent. Admirable supplety. LPR #6)

THE NUANCES, poems and visual art by Ed Baker (lovely lines, like “no wind / no sound // everywhere / I go, there // She is)

SELECTED PO-EMS OF ED BAKER (a life well written and drawn!)

THE FIRST STONE GIRL, visual poetry by Ed Baker (wonderful)

BETWEEN TWO HOUSES by Ed Baker (a whole lotta charm!)

POEMS’ PROGRESS, poems and prose about their writings by Wendy Barker (it’s a type of book I’ve always wanted to write: poems and what led to their making. Here, the poems are okay but the prose is divine. LPR #93)

PRACTICE ON MOUNTAINS by David Bartone

WORK FROM MEMORY by Dan Beachy-Quick and Matthew Goulish (excellent!)

FOR LACK OF DIAMOND YEARS by Caroline Beasley-Baker (such a lovely voice! LPR #65)

THE CHAIRMAN SPEAKS by Tom Beckett (fabulous)

BULL by John Bennett

THROAT FLY: SIX SONNETS by John M. Bennett

DAMP SHORTS by John M. Bennett

SOLECISM by Rosebud Ben-Oni

PRIOR by James Berger (a meaty first collection that charmed me into writing a review for the next issue of Galatea Resurrects)

RECALCULATING by Charles Bernstein (super!)

BRING THE THING by David Berridge (as ever from the publisher ifpthenq, far-reaching and successfully so)

CAN IT!, poetry/memoir by Edmund Berrigan (alchemized numerous influences into his own admirable voice. LPR #46)

HELLO, THE ROSES by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (as ever, breathtaking. (LPR) #76)

VELLEITY’S SHADE, poetry by Star Black with paintings by Bill Knott

SONGS OF INNOCENCE (color facsimile of the First Edition with 31 Color Plates) by William Blake

POKING THROUGH THE FABRIC OF THE LIGHT THAT FORMED US: SONGS AND STORIES TO READ IN THE MIRROR by Lora Bloom (laden with charisma)

LIVING IS NO LAUGHING MATTER by John Bloomberg-Rissman (wonderful!)

FLIRT by Noah Blaustein (moving)

OF THE MISMATCHED TEACUPS, OF THE SINGLE-SERVING SPOON: A BOOK OF FAILURES by Jenny Boully

RISE IN THE FALL by Ana Bozicevic, with drawings by Bianca Stone

BLUE BLEU BLU, visual poetry by Alice Brody (fabulous)

JAPAN TALES, visual art narrative in fabrics by Alice Brody (marvelous)

CROWNS OF CHARLOTTE: NC ODE by Lee Ann Brown (Lady sure has marvelous diction! LPR #59)

IN THE LAURELS, CAUGHT by Lee Ann Brown (delicious expanse! LPR #3)

THE HAPTIC COLD by Lily Brown (lovely)

LUCK by Charles Bukowski (killer elegiac)

THEN GO ON by Mary Burger (awesome. Discerning and intelligent. LPR #37)

TRAMPS EVERYWHERE by Amina Cain

SYMPHONY NO. 9, a long poem by Ric Carfagna (one of the best poets writing today—this poem is lovingly immense; I blurbed it!)

POCKET PARK: FOUR SEASONS IN POEMS AND PHOTOS by Claudia Carlson (Luminous poems. Gorgeous, ravishing photos. A treat! LPR #91)

SISTER, BLOOD AND BONE by Paula Cary (so fabulous—I think of the poems as clever garnets—it became my first review for the next issue of Galatea Resurrects!)

SALEM IN SÉANCE by Susana H. Case

HANDLING DESTINY by Adrian Castro

THE ROMANCES AND OTHER POEMS by Micah Cavaleri (wonderfully unique poems. Great read!)

THE BOSS by Victoria Chang

BEAUTY MARK by Suzanne Cleary

3 FORMS by Marten Clibbens

JEALOUS WITNESS by Andrei Codrescu (really powerful. Arguably my favorite collection about effects of Hurricane Katrina because it becomes not just about the specific incident)

PSYCHEDELIC NORWAY by John Colburn (magnificent! LPR # 58)

TINDER // HEART by Lisa M. Cole

RENEGADE // HEART by Lisa M. Cole (effective enough to inspire a review for Galatea Resurrects)

THE PRIMORDIAL DENSITY PERTURBATION by Stephen Collis

SECOND NATURE by Jack Collom

POISONOUS BEAUTY SKULL LOLLIPOP by Juliet Cook (very polished. One of my favorites among her numerous chaps, thus inspiring me to create a mini-book version!)

88 SONNETS by Clark Coolidge

IMAGO FOR THE FALLEN WORLD by Matthew Cooperman and art by Marius Lehene (wonderful; unexpectedly elegiac. To be LPR #97)

PRO MAGENTA / BE MET by Corina Copp

ELEGIES FOR MICHAEL GIZZI by William Corbett with drawings by Natalia Afentoulidou (marvelous homage—wonderful, light-touched poems. And happy to be introduced to the drawings of Natalia Afentoulidou. A Delight-ful-filled publication)

MANUAL OF WOODY PLANTS by Phil Cordelli (well-wrought!)

MOM— by Craig Cotter (fabulous)

80 BEETLES by Mark Cunningham (fabulous with their unique exuberances!)

A HUNDRED THOUSAND HOURS by Gro Dahle, Trans. by Rebecca Wadlinger

DANCE by Lightsey Darst

OVERPASS by Steve Davenport

BLEED THROUGH: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Michael Davidson

OTHERWORLDLY by Karyne de Contreras (fabulous!)

DOOR OF THIN SKINS by Shira Dentz (poems which as a sum (as a collection) is more than its parts (individual poems). Good example—an urgent motivation—as to why poetry should be more than verse. Novelistic in scope. Searing, thus moving in content. Ambitious and effectively so in form.)

FUR BIRDS by Michelle Detorie (was pleasantly surprised at its charisma. A feat.)

I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU? (a mini book version) by Emily Dickinson (fabulous!)

TWERK by Latasha N. Nevada Diggs (sheeeeesh: and now I’ma gonna have to eat my future unagi with less innocence…!)

AND THEN WHEN THE by Dan Disney (a pleasurable read)

THE UNFINISHED: BOOKS I-VI by Mark DuCharme (ravishing ars poetica)

KEPT WOMEN by Kate Durbin (quite witty and fabulously detailed. LPR #90)

DAS GEDICHTETE by Patrick James Dunagan (much pleasure in these knotted meditations)

POEMS AT WAR by Jose Ma. Espino (powerful for catching the tragedy that is war)

SELECTED POEMS OF SALVADOR ESPRIU, Translated from the Catalan by Magda Bogin

3 CAST AFTER BASINSKI by Nava Fader

CLARITY AND OTHER POEMS by Thomas Fink (this is one of the most important books of poetry I've read in at least the past five years. Y'all should check it out!)

JOYRIDE by Thomas Fink (fantabulous! Experimentation at its best, from concrete/visual poetry to exploded/imploded hay(na)kus! Highly Recommended. LPR #79)

FLASHES by Jennifer Firestone (pleasingly deft)

OF: VOL. I by Ossian Foley (unexpected loveliness. To be LPR #96) * THE ERRANT ASTROLOGERS by Felipe Benitez Reyes, trans. from the Spanish by Emily Toder (witty. Shakespeare-evoking. LPR #96)

HOUSES by CB Follett (well constructed! pun intended)

AT THE TURNING OF THE LIGHT by CB Follett (wonderful descriptive powers)

VISIBLE BONES by CB Follett (wonderful descriptive powers)

ONE BIRD FALLING by CB Follett (wonderful descriptive powers)

WE USED TO BE EVERYWHERE, prose poetry by Craig Foltz (grows pleasurably on you like mozzarella cheese)

ALL THAT GORGEOUS PITILESS SONG by Rebecca Foust (LPR #85. I’ve been a fan of this poet since her debut (chap)book DARK CARD. She is most definitely worth checking out for what is pure in poetry)

PERIOD PIECE by Benjamin Friedlander

MIND OVER MATTER by Gloria Frym

UNEXPLAINED FEVERS by Jeannine Hall Gailey (enjoyed these reconstituted fairy tales since “life is not a fairy tale”! Laughed at he who saved some princess and now lives with her but thinks, she’s not what I thought she’d be…haha)

CIRCLES WITH OPEN ENDS by Diana T. Gamalinda (gems)

SAY THAT by Felecia Caton Garcia

SHE, poetry and book art by Susanah Gardner (fabulous!)

100 SCENES: A GRAPHIC NOVEL, asemic poetry by Tim Gaze (wonderful. LPR #21)

WHAT THE HEART CAN BEAR: SELECTED AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS 1979-1993 by Robert Gibb

COMES UP TO FACE THE SKIES by Steve Gilmartin

HOWL AND OTHER POEMS by Allen Ginsberg (City Lights’ Pocket Poets edition. AWESOME. Thanks Jim McCrary!)

MY FAVORITE WARLORD by Eugene Gloria (as ever, the compassion in this poet’s eye is a welcome constant)

TINY GOLD DRESS by John Godfrey

LAWS OF REST by David B. Goldstein

HE LOOKED BEYOND MY FAULTS AND SAW MY NEEDS by Leonard Gontarek(ravishing. Deservedly been called “a poet’s poet.” LPR #1)

DÉJÀ VU DINER by Leonard Gontarek (reading above made me want to check out the poet’s other works and this, too, is just ridiculously sublime!)

THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER by Noah Eli Gordon (nicely provocative)

SANCTA by Andrew Grace

AND SO FOR YOU THERE IS NO HEARTBREAK, poetry novella by K. Lorraine Graham(wonderful, witty and welcomed reading!)

ONE PETAL ROW by Jaimie Gusman

QUESTIONS FOR ANIMALS by Peggy Hamilton

pleth, visual collaged poetry by j/j hastain and text-poems by Marthe Reed (brilliance and eros in a seamless unity. Highly Recommended. LPR #89)

VOW by Rebecca Hazelton (wonderful opening—a great contemporized poem re mythological Helen)

10 MISSISSIPPI by Steve Healey

THE NEXT ANCIENT WORLD by Jennifer Michael Hecht

DARKACRE by Greg Hewett

YOU ARE EVERYTHING YOU ARE NOT by John High (nicely done)

BY THE HOURS: SELECTED POEMS EARLY & UNCOLLECTED by Eric Hoffman (well done)

RENDER: AN APOCALYPSE by Rebecca Gayle Howell (outstanding energy, befitting “apocalypse”)

IDIOT’S DELIGHT by Robert Hunter (a pleasing—not to be confused with pleasant—surprise)

BLOOD SISTER, I AM TO THESE FIELDS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Linda Hussa

PRINCESS ABANDONED, essays by Kim Hyesoon, trans. Don Mee Choi (AWESOME!)

THE AUCTION by Aileen Ibardaloza (fabulous!)

ORANGE ROSES by Lucy Ives (a feat!)

FROM DELANCEY WEST by Brian Jackson (a marvelous debut! Intelligent, ambitious music. LPR #84)

ITEMS, poetry/visual art by Tom Jenks (fabulous!)

MERIDIAN by Kathleen Jesme (Outstanding. Moving. Authentic.)

THE PLUM-STONE GAME by Kathleen Jesme (gorgeous. LPR #44)

THE TRUTH, by Ted Joans (fabulous!)

WHAT’S IN STORE by Trevor Joyce (oh such a lovely lovely achievement! It’s my loss I come belatedly to this 2007 book; it is a gentle feat!)

TEXT (ISLES) by Nancy Kassell

THE 1985 NOTEBOOK, visual poetry/asemic writing by Norma Kassirer (fabulous! LPR #69)

LITTLE “g” GOD GROWS TIRED OF ME by Aby Kaupang (lovely. LPR #98)

GRADUALLY THE WORLD: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1982-2013 by Burt Kimmelman(lovely and luminous worlds/words)

I WANT TO MAKE YOU SAFE by Amy King (nicely done! quite smart)

RUBBLE PAPER PAPER RUBBLE, visual poetry by Paul Klinger (wonderfully conceptualized rubbings. Intriguingly evocative)

DOMINA UN/BLUED by Ruth Ellen Kocher (nicely done as well, with interesting technique of building the collection upon “the ruins of two previous manuscripts”)

MODULATIONS, visual poetry by Marton Koppany (FABULOUS! And so wonderful I felt compelled to review it, along with Addenda and THE READER—see below—for the next issue of Galatea Resurrects!)

ADDENDA, visual poetry by Marton Koppany (see above comment)

THE READER, poetry by Marton Koppany (see above comment)

KUNDIMAN by Emmanuel Lacaba, Trans. by Paolo Javier (fabulous! see link!)

GO GIANTS by Nick Laird

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF PHILIP LAMANTIA, edited by Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron and Nancy Joyce Peters (MAGNIFICENT EKSTASIS! LPR #83)

THREE POSTCARD POEMS by Amanda Laughtland (fabulous. click on link!)

DIARY OF USE by J. Vera Lee (interesting)

FRIED CHICKEN DINNER by Janice Lee

THE GRAPEVINE by Richard Lopez (ecstatic. Lovely portrait, too, of the Artist as a Young(er) Man. A small chap but immense in heart and scope!)

FINDING MY ELEGY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS Ursula K. Le Guin (shows how the pursuit and practice of poetry has been worthwhile for this poet. LPR #75. Having said that, I could be wrong but I do wonder if this author—more well-known for her speculative fiction—could have done much more with the poetic form had she focused more on, uh, the poetic form)

ROUGE by Kimberly Lyons (light delicately lined out)

BOOK OF LOVE by M and G

REALISM by Tom Mandel

BRUSHSTROKES AND GLANCES by Djelloul Marbrook (sagacious ekphrasis)

LO, BITTERN by C.J. Martin

BIG BAD ASTERISK* by Carlo Matos (witty and pleasingly unusual. LPR #50)

SAKRA BOCCATA by Jose Antonio Mazzoti, Trans. by Clayton Eshleman (Fabulous! LPR #87)

THE LAST WORD, photograph-poem by jim mccrary (fulsomely pithy)

YRTEMMYS & OTHER POEMS by Edric Mesmer (it’s not unusual sometimes to respond to a poem(s) by saying it’s difficult to understand; but with these poems, which I MUCH ENJOYED, I (also) had the reaction: these poems were difficult to make! All the more kudos to the poet!)

THE POEMS OF ALICE MEYNELL

WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE: Poetry and Family Photographs by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish(well done)

HAITI GLASS by Lenelle Moise (powerful and moving)

From THE GOLDEN WEST by Jason Morris with sketches by Jason Grabowski, along with Thoreau's ECONOMY with drawings by Jesse Schlesinger and a poem by Thomas Carew (a feat and a treat, especially with the fabulous production of Alone Company Editions / Publication Studio that elevate the project to book art.)

BEYOND THE CHAINLINK by Rusty Morrison

FRIGHT CATALOG, (visual) poetry by Joseph Mosconi (wonderful conceptual underpinning. Unique and delightful! LPR #13)

WESTERN PRACTICE by Stephen Motika

FROM BEHIND THE BLIND by Robert Murphy (well-done)

WE BURY THE LANDSCAPE: AN EXHIBITION-COLLECTION by Kristine Ong Muslim (marvelous. LPR #95)

HOLD IT DOWN by Gina Myers

LOST BOOKS by Adrienne J. Odasso (this poet is new to me and I am blessed to discover her. These poems are fine and delicate – they’re a marvel to read)

STAG’S LEAP by Sharon Olds

A THOUSAND MORNINGS by Mary Oliver

MEMORY FUTURE by Heather Aimee O’Neill

CLOUD VS. CLOUD by Ethan Paquin

NEW ORLEANS VARIATIONS & PARIS OUROBOROS by Paul Pines (fabulous textual jazz! LPR #4)

THE FOOTBALL POEMS by James Paul

STRIVEN, THE BRIGHT TREATISE by Jeffrey Pethybridge

STAINED GLASS WINDOWS OF CALIFORNIA by Julien Poirier (first poetry collection read in 2013!)

THE EGG MISTRESS by Jessica Poli (satisfying and delightful. A young poet—and she’s one to follow)

A DISTURBANCE IN THE AIR by Michele Poulos

COLLECTED POEMS by Enoch Powell

RADIO AT NIGHT: RECENT & SELECTED WORK by Laurie Price

PLEDGE by Pro-Prop

IN MIXED COMPANY by Caleb Puckett and Friends (fabulous music that even encompasses the hymn)

WITH OUR ENGLISH DEAD by Christopher Willliam Purdom

AIRLINE MUSIC, poetry/meditations by Amarnath Ravva

(EM)BODIED BLISS by Marthe Reed (such powerful – and often ravishing and ravished! – work)

FLORULA LUDOVICIANA by Marthe Reed (fabulous!)

COUNTERPART by Elizabeth Robinson (Wow: powerful stuff. I think it’s my favorite book of hers yet … and no doubt will be one of my favorite poetry reads for 2013—it’s sumthin’ that I say that and it’s only early March!)

ON GHOSTS, poetry [/] essay by Elizabeth Robinson (suffused with light and insight)

BLUE HERON by Elizabeth Robinson (exceptional)

WALKING THE MINEFIELD by Judith Rose

USO: I'LL BE SEEING YOU by Kim Rosenfield

PHRENOLOGUE by Judah Raanan Rubin

THIRTY-FIVE NEW PAGES by Lev Rubinstein, note-card poems translated from Russian by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky (fabulous! LPR #7)

AMERICAN SONGBOOK by Michael Ruby

HOW TO LIVE ON THE PLANET: COLLECTED POEMS by Nanao Sakaki

SHADES OF BROWN, poems/poetry/poetics by Angel eFe Sandoval (moving)

O YOU OF THE COTTON PAJAMAS by Sarah Sarai (fabulous)

MUSSOORIE-MONTAGUE MISCELLANY by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno

FOOL’S GOLD by Norman Schaefer

THE ARC OF THE DAY / THE IMPERFECTIONIST, POEMS BY Steve Schrader (the poems are wonderful. But also can’t help reflect on how the book’s editor, Susan Schultz, is a poet’s ideal reader – would that all poets would come to have a reader like Susan)

“SHE’S WELCOME TO HER DISEASE” DEMENTIA BLOG [VOLUME TWO] by Susan M. Schultz (innovative, moving, fabulous. LPR #94)

NO OBJECT by Natalie Shapero (smart, as the saying goes, as a whip)

UNDERGLOOM by Prageeta Sharma (interesting intimacies)

A SPELL OF SONGS by Peter Jay Shippy (rollicking twists & leaps)

THE LOVING DETAIL OF THE LIVING & THE DEAD by Eleni Sikelianos (wonderful)

REVELATOR by Ron Silliman (masterful and mature. Makes the difficult seem easy with its not-at-all-uneasy-with-itself energy that seemed to have begun before the poem’s first word so that with that first word you already feel you’re in some majestic current. That is, wonderful propulsion – making it all the more lovely when the energy unexpectedly slows when a reader can’t help but pause to be affected by something read, in this case a reference to a son’s breathing – ultimately, lovely. Tho must return as sometimes the energy moves you forward so quickly that you just look by something you want to consider longer as if you’re on a train reading words on a wall rather than looking at a page. First word: “Words.” First two words: “Words torn…” Breathtaking. Will look forward to making it LinkedInPoetry Recommendation No. 100)

THE VOICE AT 3:00 A.M.: SELECTED LATE AND NEW POEMS by Charles Simic (voice of experience)

LOOK TO MOUNTAINS, LOOK TO SEA by Ron Singer with illustrations by Elizabeth Yami

MILK & FILTH by Carmen Gimenez Smith (potent with many pleasingly unexpected twists)

PIECES OF WATER by Michael Smoler (made Moi purr from the pleasure-ridden reading)

THIS IS VISUAL POETRY, by Steven D Stark (charming)

NOISE EVENT by Heidi Lynn Staples (wonderfully multi-faceted; so many striking lines!)

THE GARDEN: SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT FOR ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION, poetry and visual poetry by Ed Steck (incredible! And incredibly fabulous! LPR #92)

HURT, THE SHADOW: THE JOSEPHINE HOPPER POEMS by Carole Stone

THE RESERVOIR by Donna Stonecipher (meticulous as diamonds, luminous as … diamonds under sunlight. Rarefied pleasure indeed)

STRAUS KEEPSAKE by Karl Straus

DRAGON LOGIC by Stephanie Strickland (smartly seething and seethingly smart!)

STELE by Cole Swensen

MY FUNERAL GONDOLA by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (interesting conceptual underpinning)

REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE by Eileen R. Tabios (I know—it’s my book. Rereading this book for a new project, but rereading this book which was released in 1998 pleases me as, based on its poems, I can’t fathom who the “I” was that wrote such poems…)

154 FORTIES [by] JACKSON MAC LOW, Edited by Anne Tardos

A BELL MADE OF STONES by Lehua M. Taitano

PLEASURE by Brian Teare

CROSSINGS by Habib Tengour, Translated by Marilyn Hacker

WAXWINGS by Daniel Nathan Terry (intelligent, compassionate poems)

TO THE EDITOR WHOSE NAME WILL APPEAR ON MY NEXT REJECTION LETTER by G. Murray Thomas (fabulous!)

EVERY POSSIBLE BLUE by Matthew Thorburn (wonderful, playful poems)

GALLOWGLASS by Susan Tichy

MARGINAL ANNOTATIONS AND OTHER POEMS by Edith L. Tiempo

MASS OF THE FORGOTTEN by James Tolan (I much appreciate these poems’ diverse moves)

BLOOD ORANGE by Angela Narciso Torres (just lovely!)

PROGRESS ON THE SUBJECT OF IMMENSITY, POEMS BY Leslie Ullman

HANDBOOK FOR WITHDRAWAL by Erin Virgil (interesting premise wonderfully drawn out)

FASCICLE 30 by Brad Vogler

ADVENTURES IN THE LOST INTERIORS OF AMERICA by William D. Waltz

HERE COME THE WARM JETS by Alli Warren

THE CRANBERRY ISLAND SERIES, poems, photos and autobiographical and poetics prose by Donald Wellman (finely considered writings)

A MAP PREDETERMINED AND CHANCE by Laura Wetherington

UNREST by Simone White (fabulous! WOULD SOMEONE PUBLISH A FIRST BOOK by this poet? If I understand her bio correctly, she’s released chaps but not a full-length book to date. Based on UNREST, it’s more than time to see a more full-blown poetry collection from her)

SUSPENSION OF A SECRET IN ABANDONED ROOMS by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

HAIKU by Colin Will (fabulous!)

SACRILEGION by L. Lamar Wilson

WALKING AMONG THEM by Max Winter

MANY WINTERS: PROSE AND POETRY OF THE PUEBLOS by Nancy Wood with drawings and paintings by Frank Howell

TRIPLE CROWN: THREE CROWNS OF SONNETS by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (masterful by a well-seasoned poet)

A MARZIPAN FACTORY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Grzegorz Wroblewski, Trans. by Adam Zdrodowski

I CAN ALMOST SEE THE CLOUDS OF DUST by Yu Xiang, Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

YOU ARE NOT DEAD by Wendy Xu

I WAS NOT EVEN BORN by Wendy Xu and Nick Sturm

PICADILLY OR PARADISE, poems by John Yau and drawings by Trevor Winkfield (fabulous and wonderful production by Ferris Editions)

THE CODICILS by Mark Young (magnificent. LPR #86)

CATASTROPHE THEORY by Susan Yount (energetic and quirky in a good way. a bouncy read)

MINI BOOK by Susan Yount (fabulous!)

VIDEO TAPE by Andrew Zawacki (ingenious!)


Other Poetry:
(in alphabetical order by author or editor’s names)

PINE TREE POETRY COLLECTION, Book 6, 2013, No Named Editor (includes a poem by moi son!)

THE SPIRIT OF THE SAINTS / EL ESPIRITU DE LOS SANTOS 2013, poetry and art annual journal of St. Helena High School, No Named Editor (contains a fabulous poem by moi son, says the unbiased Moi=Mom)

DEEP RIVER APARTMENTS, chap poetry anthology edited by Ivy Alvarez and featuring Shann Palmer, JL Thompson, Elaine Borthwick, Dionisio Velasco, Jennie Cole, Kirsten Irving, Angela Readman and Sam Rasnake (wonderful concept and manifestations. LR #53)

ANTHOLOGY SPIDERTANGLE, visual poetry anthology edited by miekal And (fabulous! LPR #63)

BORDERLANDS / LA FRONTERA, Chicana / Women’s studies viz essays and poetry by Gloria Anzaldua

Rae Armantrout in THE GRAND PIANO, which is ten volumes of a "collective autobiography" by ten poets. Because all of the volumes were released prior to my paying attention to this series, I have been reading each individual poet’s contributions sequentially with the idea that, if I was so moved after reading all authors’ contributions, I then would read the books as collectively authored.

LITTER 2013, online literary magazine edited by Alan Baker

AMIRI BARAKA & EDWARD DORN: THE COLLECTED LETTERS, Edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano

ELEVEN ELEVEN: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND ART, 2013 edited by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

HIKING AT POINT REYES WITH TEN YR. OLD AMAYA, poem by Novis Breckett through “Homes for Poems,” a project of Arts Council Napa Valley and Napa County Poet Laureate Leonore Wilson

6X6 #22, December 2010 Ugly Duckling chap literary journal featuring Lily Brown, Chris Hosea, Aaron McCollough, Jennifer Nelson, George Eklund, Ryan Murphy (another good read)

WHEN SHE NAMED FIRE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY BY AMERICAN WOMEN, edited by Andrea Hollander Budy

ALL IS FORGOTTEN, NOTHING IS LOST, novel by Lan Samantha Chang (fabulous novel involving poets and the art of poetry. LinkedIn Recommendation #2)

THE ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW, Fall/Winter 2012, edited by Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis and Gerald Maa

THE FADING SMILE: Poets in Boston from Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath by Peter Davison (biography involving Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, W.S. Merwin, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath, among others, Norton, New York, 1994. Well-accomplished. LR Recommendation #80)

“OLD FATHER, OLD ARTIFICER”—CHARLES OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE by Diane Di Prima (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

CHARLES OLSON MEMORIAL LECTURE by Edward Dorn (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

BASEBALL CANTO, poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the exhibition announcement of “OUT OF THE PARK: The Art of Baseball,” April 4-May 25 at George Krevsky Gallery in San Francisco (more exhibition announcements should utilize poems—this is particularly well-done, and a fine poem to boot!)

MARSH HAWK REVIEW, WINTER 2013, edited by Thomas Fink

CARPE DIEM by Robert Frost, as a Holiday Broadside from The Poetry Collection of University of Buffalo/SUNY (a gift from Edric Mesmer—what’ snot to like? Indeed, I love it! Thanks Edric.)

PEOPLE ARE STRANGE, short stories by Eric Gamalinda (fabulous! the author is a poet, too, and it shows marvelously)

THE NEW CENSUS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY, Edited by Kevin A. Gonzalez & Lauren Shapiro

CENTURY OF THE SELF, essay by Alexandra Grant (this essay was published in a leaflet-type series by Rabble, an imprint of Insert Blanc Press co-edited by Holly Myers and Mathew Timmons. It's a modest and yet elegant publication -- I adore its existence as yet another attempt to dilute the dilution of culture.)

Carla Harryman in THE GRAND PIANO, which is ten volumes of a "collective autobiography" by ten poets. Because all of the volumes were released prior to my paying attention to this series, I have been reading each individual poet’s contributions sequentially with the idea that, if I was so moved after reading all authors’ contributions, I then would read the books as collectively authored.

Lyn Hejinian in THE GRAND PIANO, which is ten volumes of a "collective autobiography" by ten poets. Because all of the volumes were released prior to my paying attention to this series, I have been reading each individual poet’s contributions sequentially with the idea that, if I was so moved after reading all authors’ contributions, I then would read the books as collectively authored.

VERSE, Vol. 28, No. 3 / Vol. 29, No. 1, literary journal edited by Brian Henry and Andrew Zawacki (really like its structure of showing a meaty representation of an author, in this case an interview of Eileen Myles, and writings by Allison Titus, Joshua Edwards, Francis Luong, Alissa Nutting and Travis McDonald)

SAFE IN HEAVEN DEAD, selected interview excerpts of Jack Kerouac curated by Michael White (Hanuman Books No. 42. I always find inspiration in Kerouac. Fabulous!)

HORROR CLOSE-UP, anthology edited by Conrad Kisch (a Danish children’s book that reprinted two zombie poems by Tom Beckett—so proud as his publisher!)

“COMMUNICATION IS ESSENTIAL”—JOANNE KYGER: LETTERS TO & FROM (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

WHAT THE STONES REMEMBER: A LIFE REDISCOVERED, memoir by Patrick Lane (moving and lyrical and powerful. LR Recommendation #81)

KINDERGARDE: AVANT-GARDE POEMS, PLAYS, STORIES AND SONGS FOR CHILDREN, Edited by Dana Teen Lomax (wonderful sense of play. Also suitable for adult readers)

Tom Mandel in THE GRAND PIANO, which is ten volumes of a "collective autobiography" by ten poets. Because all of the volumes were released prior to my paying attention to this series, I have been reading each individual poet’s contributions sequentially with the idea that, if I was so moved after reading all authors’ contributions, I then would read the books as collectively authored.

YELLOW FIELD 7, literary and arts zine edited by Eric Mesmer (fabulous, as always. So present!)

YELLOW FIELD #8, literary/arts journal curated by Edric Mesmer (as ever, a wonderful read)

TOWARD THE YEAR 2014, Season’s Greetings Annual Poem-Card/Broadside by Sheila E. Murphy (as ever, absolutely FABULOUS. I think this particular poem may be my favorite yet from Sheila’s annuals)

Bob Perelman in THE GRAND PIANO, which is ten volumes of a "collective autobiography" by ten poets. Because all of the volumes were released prior to my paying attention to this series, I have been reading each individual poet’s contributions sequentially with the idea that, if I was so moved after reading all authors’ contributions, I then would read the books as collectively authored.

HIROSHIMA IN THE MORNING, memoir w/ poem by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (courageous and thus inspiring)

Kit Robinson in THE GRAND PIANO, which is ten volumes of a "collective autobiography" by ten poets. Because all of the volumes were released prior to my paying attention to this series, I have been reading each individual poet’s contributions sequentially with the idea that, if I was so moved after reading all authors’ contributions, I then would read the books as collectively authored.

A BROKEN THING: POETS ON THE LINE, Edited by Emily Rosko and Anton VanderZee

“LIKE A GREAT ARMFUL OF WILD & WONDERFUL FLOWERS—SELECTED LETTERS OF MICHAEL RUMAKER (LOST AND FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES III)

MAGANDA Magazine, "Bawal," issue 26, Eds. Raymond Sapida and Maria Vallarta (thanks for including one of my poems!)

ECCOLINGUISTICS 2.1, literary journal edited by Jared Schickling (fabulous zine)

ECCOLINGUISTICS, August 2013 poetry zine, Ed. Jared Schickling

JACK LONDON IS DEAD: CONTEMPORARY EURO-AMERICAN POETRY OF HAWAI’I (AND SOME STORIES), Edited by Susan M. Schultz (a surprising-that-shouldn’t-be-surprising, and pleasing, calmness underpinning this project. A refreshing calmness…)

Ron Silliman in THE GRAND PIANO, which is ten volumes of a "collective autobiography" by ten poets. Because all of the volumes were released prior to my paying attention to this series, I have been reading each individual poet’s contributions sequentially with the idea that, if I was so moved after reading all authors’ contributions, I then would read the books as collectively authored.

EVENING WILL COME: WOMEN OF VISUAL POETRY ISSUE / THE VOLTA, Guest-edited by Jessica Smith / Eds. Joshua Marie Wilkinson & Afton Wilky (historic and beautiful. LPR#77)

JUST KIDS, memoir of life with Robert Maplethorpe by Patti Smith (wonderful read. LPR #82)

HOUSE ORGAN, No. 85 Fall 2014, literary zine edited by Kenneth Warren

HOUSE ORGAN, Fall 2013, literary zine edited by Kenneth Warren

HOUSE ORGAN, No. 83, Summer 2013, literary journal edited by Kenneth Warren (as ever, a good read)

HOUSE ORGAN, No. 82 Spring 2013, literary zine edited by Kenneth Warren

UNDISCOVERED, memoir with poetry by Debra Winger

LIVE MAG!, Issue 9, literary and arts journal edited by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (wonderful!)

A THING AMONG THINGS: THE ART OF JASPER JOHNS, essays/criticism/meditations by John Yau (magnificent! LPR #10)

OTOLITHS, Issue #29, edited by Mark Young (outstanding international literary and arts feast!)

ARSENIC LOBSTER: Poetry Journal 2012, Issues 26, 27 & 28, Editor Susan Yount (an excellent achievement! I enjoyed EVERY SINGLE POEM! That’s a first in terms of reading through a literary journal because, usually, you like some you don’t like some. Here, I like ALL!)

ARSENIC LOBSTER: POETRY JOURNAL 2013 edited by Susan Yount (I liked every single on of its 52 poems—a treat!)