Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

Carryovers from 2014:
Poems for the Millenium III
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1 [FINISHED]
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 2 [FINISHED]

And here are some others I'd like to make priorities:
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks [FINISHED]
The Muse Strikes Back, ed. Katherine McAlpine [FINISHED]
Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire [FINISHED]
Great American Prose Poems, ed. David Lehman [FINISHED]
The Lakes of Mars by Chris Orsman [FINISHED]
Citizen by Claudia Rankine [FINISHED]
Joan Colby: Selected Poems
[All but the Brooks in this list I learned about through members of this group]

I'm looking forward to a year of great poetry!

Great list. Don't want to seem too picky, but it's The Lakes of Mars by Chris Orsman.

Thanks, J.S. Corrections are no problem. Bring 'em on. I certainly make plenty of mistakes these days and am sometimes mortified when I reread what I've posted. I have simply had to accept my fallibility, more and more as I age. And hope that folks like yourself will kindly point out errors.

Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks. So happy to have started the year with a truly awesome book.

2. Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire

3. The Lakes of Mars by Chris Orsman
4. Dark Blonde by Belle Waring

5. Citizen: An American Lyric

6. Winter Morning Walks by Ted Kooser

7. Even So by Gary Young
8. The Classic Tradition of Haiku, ed. Bowers
9. One Hundred Poems by the Chinese, trans. Kenneth Rexroth

10. Great American Prose Poems, ed. David Lehman

11. Poem in Your Pocket, ed. Elaine Bleakney
12. The Muse Strikes Back, ed. Katherine McAlpine & Gail White

13. Collected Poems by Edgar Bowers.

14. Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser.
15. Words for House Story by JoAnn Balingit

16. The Simple Truth by Philip Levine

17. Galway Kinnell: A New Selected Poems

18. Blowout by Denise Duhamel

19. The Still Position by Barbara Blatner

20. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1

21. The Collected Poems of Wiliam Carlos Williams, Vol. 2

My year had a wonderful start, a boring middle, and a wonderful conclusion.

Good going! What was your favourite?

Very tough question, Sarah. Either the Gwendolyn Brooks or the first volume of the Williams. But Winter Morning Walks was lovely and both Citizen and Dark Blonde packed a lot of punch.

I don't have any Kooser, though I've enjoyed many of his poems. I would like to read Citizen, and Dark Blonde, too, which has been discussed here very positively.

22. Lake Effect Country by A.R. Ammons