(52 in 2011)

The 52 poetry books I’m reading in 2011:

1. Letters From the Emily Dickinson Room by Kelli Russell Agodon

2. The Bride of E by Mary Jo Bang

3. The Human Line by Ellen Bass

4. Up Jump the Boogie by John Murillo

5. Things That No Longer Delight Me by Leslie C. Chang

6. Cures Include Travel by Susan Rich

7. Hoops by Major Jackson

8. Mapmaking by Megan Harlan

9. Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman

10. Eve’s Red Dress by Diane Lockward

11. Evidence by Mary Oliver

12. The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010 by Marge Piercy

13. Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English edited by Agha Shahid Ali

14. Steady, My Gaze by Marie-Elizabeth Mali

15. Methodist Hatchet by Ken Babstock

16. The Best Of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan

17. Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield

18. The Manageable Cold by Timothy McBride

19. This Great Unknowing by Denise Levertov

20. The Alchemist’s Kitchen by Susan Rich

21. The Salt Ecstasies by James L. White

22. Dhaka Dust by Dilruba Ahmed

23. Sea Change by Jorie Graham

24. Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver

25. Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder

26. Rookery by Traci Brimhall

27. Amorous Shepherd by Dante Micheaux

28. Killing the Murnion Dogs by Joe Wilkins

29. The Chameleon Couch by Yusef Komunyakaa

30. Double Shadow by Carl Phillips

31. Devotions by Bruce Smith

32. Tonight No Poetry WIll Serve: Poems 2007 – 2010 by Adrienne Rich

33. Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney

34. When The Only Light Is Fire by Saeed Jones

and Wallace Stevens Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens (I’m reading one Stevens poem a day in 2011)

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