Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

It starts with the Natl Book Critics Circle long list for their award:

An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang (Copper Canyon) (done)
Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen (Tin House) (dnf)
Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat) (dnf)
A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye by V. Penelope Pelizzon (University of Pittsburgh) (done)
Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat) (dnf)
The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian (Tin House) (done)
Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (done)
Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes (W. W. Norton) (done)
Yard Show by Janice N. Harrington (BOA) (done)

I'm hoping to read a few books through NetGalley, which provides people advanced reader copies a few months before a book comes out in exchange for some social media posting. I'll mark them below. FYI, I research the poet's work before requesting a copy of a book so I've got a good chance of liking what I'm reading.

Books actually read:
1. Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola (NetGalley--book's release date is Jan 14)

Okay, I lied about what I'm starting with. I'm actually starting with what I haven't yet read of the 2024 National Book Award long list. And before that reading what I was most curious about among my recent purchases:

2. Hotel Almighty by Sarah J Sloat

3. Silver by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

I hope to get the reviews up soon. Unfortunately, what takes one or two sittings to read takes at least that many weeks to review.

Books I chose not to finish in 2025 (I've got a single thread in the reviews area to discuss them a bit)

[...] by Fady Joudah
The Book of Wounded Sparrows by Octavio Quintanilla
mother by m.s. RedCherries
Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Liontaming in America by Elizabeth Willis
Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin
Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf
Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen
All Souls by Saskia Hamilton
Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan
Thresherphobe by Mark Halliday
Jab by Mark Halliday
Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon

4. The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian

I'm grateful to know I'm able to recover after 5 disappointing books in a row.

5. An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang
6. Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips

7. Ocean of Clouds by Garrett Hongo (NetGalley book coming out in June 2025.)

8. Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes

9. Jailbreak of Sparrows by Martin Espada (NetGalley book coming out in April)

10. A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye by V. Penelope Pellizon

11. Yard Show by Janice N. Harrington

12. Black Mestiza by Yael Valencia Aldana (NetGalley book but already available)

13. The Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun

14. Selfwolf by Mark Halliday

15. Lighthead by Terrance Hayes

16. The Re-echo Club by Carolyn Wells

17. A Far Rockaway of the Heart by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Since I'm burning through books of poetry this year, I feel the need to stop and ask myself which are my favorites thus far. Here they are:
Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems
Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola
Ocean of Clouds by Garrett Hongo
Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes
The Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun

I'm not sure what order I'd put them in but those are my faves. What's coming down the pike?
A collected Roethke
A collected Howard Nemerov
A collected O'hara
A selected Kenneth Fearing (done and added to faves list)
The second half of Leaves of Grass
Phantom Pain Wings (DNF)
A couple of anthologies
Random selections from Everand
Random selections from the local library
Whatever of interest turns up on NetGalley

18. Sing Doun the Mune by Helen Adam

19. American Primitive by Mary Oliver

20. Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems, ed. Robert Polito

21. Sunset Gun by Dorothy Parker

22. Post-Colonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

23. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, ed. Ada Limon.

24. Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, ed. Mona Arshi & Karen McCarthy Woolf

25. The Principle of Rapid Peering by Sylvia Legris

26. Yin by Carolyn Kizer

27. The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke

28. Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery