Year-End Lists

Entropy: Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2019

[see also 2018 • 2017]

1. Time
   Etel Adnan
2. A Sand Book
   Ariana Reines
3. Our Weather Our Sea
   Samuel Ace
4. Soft Science
   Franny Choi
5. Careen
   Grace Shuyi Liew
6. A Fortune for Your Disaster
   Hanif Abdurraqib
7. Grief Sequence
   Prageeta Sharma
8. Advantages of Being Evergreen
   Oliver Baez Bendorf
9. Near, At
   Jennifer Soong
10. Syncope
    Asiya Wadud
11. Deaf Republic
    Ilya Kaminsky
12. Magical Negro
    Morgan Parker
13. Invasive species
    Marwa Helal
14. Meet Me There

    Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash.
    Samuel Ace / Linda Smukler
15. Dunce
    Mary Ruefle
16. The Tradition
    Jericho Brown
17. Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart
    Moina Pam Dick
18. All That Beauty
    Fred Moten
19. Casting Deep Shade

    An Amble
    C.D. Wright
20. Be Recorder
    Carmen Giménez Smith
21. Furthest Ecology
    Adam Fagin
22. The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom
    Magdalena Zurawski
23. The Year of Blue Water
    Yanyi
24. Oculus
    Sally Wen Mao
25. Feed
    Tommy Pico
26. EXTRATRANSMISSION
    Andrea Abi-Karam
27. Hall of Waters
    Berry Grass
28. Oceanic
    Aimee Nezhukumatathil
29. Blood Box
    Zefyr Lisowski
30. Mitochondrial Night
    Ed Bok Lee
31. Doomstead Days
    Brian Teare
32. Austerity
    Marion Bell
33. Brute
    Emily Skaja
34. Losing Miami
    Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
35. What I Knew
    Eleni Sikelianos
36. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
    Jake Skeets
37. Space Struck
    Paige Lewis
38. Street Gloss
    Brent Armendinger
39. What's in a Name
    Ana Luísa Amaral
40. HoodWitch
    Faylita Hicks
41. Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A Cliff
    Sara Borjas
42. Let It Ride
    Timothy Liu
43. Hysteria
    Kim Yideum
44. Several Rotations
    Jesse Seldess
45. Knitting the Fog
    Claudia D. Hernández
46. Personal Volcano
    Laura Moriarty
47. Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?
    Kim Eon Hee
48. (the Other House)
    Rocio Carlos
49. while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
    Raquel Salas Rivera
50. The Unexploded Ordnance Bin
    Rebecca Foust