HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Here at The Poetry Question, we are proud to be one of the top review outlets showcasing poets across the globe in 2023, but also since inception in 2013. Since taking over in June of 2023, I have had a lot of different ideas swirl around my head on what the next chapter of TPQ will look like.
Our first new feature, was my column ON WAX, which covers Spoken Word Poetry Albums. Look for more of that in 2024. But one thing the team wanted to start, is a new tradition of showcasing our top poetry collections of 2023 list.
Note: This list is organized alphabetically by author last name only, and there are no official numerical rankings in this round-up.
Transitory by Subhaga Crystal Bacon (BOA Editions)
Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates (Tin House Books)
Freedom House by KB Brookins (Deep Vellum)
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas (Soft Skull)
Not Quite an Ocean by Elizabeth M. Castillo (Nine Pens Poets)
Organs of Little Importance by Adrienne Chung (Penguin Poets)
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris (Alice James Books)
I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes (Tin House)
apocrifa by Amber Flame (RedHen Press)
Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky by Rudy Francisco (Button Poetry)
Fantasy of Loving the Fantasy by Jennifer Funk (Bull City Press)
Vexations by Annelyse Gelman (University of Chicago Press)
Still Falling by Jennifer Grotz (Graywolf Press)
The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sally Wen Mao (Graywolf Press)
Postcolonial Metaphysics by Nibras Malik (Austin Macauley)
Otherlight by Jill McEldowney (YesYes Books)
Second Session: Audio Therapy II by Reggie Johnson (RadPress)
soft apocalypse by Leah Nieboer (University of Georgia Press)
I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price (Sarabande Books)
Good Grief, the Ground by Margaret Ray (BOA Editions)
WEST: A Translation by Paisley Rekdahl (Copper Canyon Press)
Pig by Sam Sax (Scribner)
Have You Been Long Enough at the Table by Leslie Sainz (Tin House)
The Ferguson Report by Nicole Sealey (Knopf/Penguin Random House)
Unshuttered by Patricia Smith (Northwestern University Press)
Buffalo Girl by Jessica Q. Stark (BOA Editions)
