EVERY MONTH IS POETRY MONTH TO ME (A NEW LIST!)

As you're probably sick of me sharing, before my brain op I constantly, compulsively, made lists in my head and my poems and my blog posts and my conversation etc...and then poof, after the operation I had no inclination to make them at all....but occasionally I push myself to do one just for old time's sake, so in honor of April being, among other things, poetry month, here's a list of some favorite books of poems that have come out recently (and by recently I mean within the last couple of years but which I am still savoring), some of which I've already posted about (you can look them up) and some of which I hadn't yet, and in no particular order, from poets whose work I love:

Terence Winch's THE KNOWN UNIVERSE
John Godfrey's THE CITY KEEPS
Patricia Spears Jones' A LUCENT FIRE
Phoebe MacAdams' THE LARGE ECONOMY OF THE BEAUTIFUL
Franco Beltrametti's FROM ALMOST EVERYWHERE
Mark Pawlak's RECONNAISSANCE
John Reed's FREE BOAT
Douglas Crase's THE ASTROPASTORALS
Michael Gizzi's COLLECTED POEMS
China Choi's THE YELLOW HOUSE
Theresa Burns' TWO TRAIN TOWN
Geoffrey Young's FREE
Geoffrey Young's DEAR HOLLYWOOD WRITERS
Geoffrey Young's THIRTY-THREE
Ken McCullough's DARK STARS
Mark Terrill's DIAMONDS & SAPIENCE
Mark Terrill's COMPETITIVE DECADENCE
Don Yorty's SONNETS
Elinor Nauen's SNOWBOUND

and my favorite "recent" poetry anthology—
READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY
—mainly because of the insightful and
knowledgeable introductions to each poet's
work by the editor Vincent Katz, all poems
selected from the reading series he oversees
for the DIA Art Foundation (two of mine are
included, but I'd love it as much even if they weren't)...


I know there's some I'm forgetting but these
were closest to hand and like I've explained,
since the operation I rarely can make a list
without help from google or what catches
my eye on my many many many bookshelves...