DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi,
The Galleons: Poems by Rick Barot,
Deluge by Leila Chatti,
Catrachos: Poems by Roy G. Guzmán,
A More Perfect Union by Teri Ellen Cross Davis.
DAY: I’m in a unique position in that I have access to so much incredible poetry through my job. The NEA awards grants each year to nonprofit presses to support the publication of some of the country’s best poetry (and prose) books, and we keep a library of those books on our shelves in the office. I also read manuscript excerpts for the Creative Writing Fellowships and often fall in love with a writer’s work that way. And I’m signed up for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, where they send a poem every morning via email. Once I’ve found one or two poems by a poet that I’m really drawn to, I’m compelled to read more of their work to find more poems like the ones I love.