Continuing with our series of “Best of 2018″ lists curated by the entire Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team here at Entropy, as well as nominations from our readers.
This list brings together some of our favorite poems published online in 2018.
In no particular order…
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Dear Melissa by TC Tolbert (Poets.org)
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After Reading DJ Khaled Will Not Perform Oral Sex On His Wife Despite Demanding That She Must, I Consider My Relationships by by Leila Chatti (Frontier Poetry)
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Beckoned by Forrest Gander (Harpers)
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My Poem About Last Sounds by Prageeta Sharma (Boston Review)
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Everything by Jane Wong (Poetry Foundation)
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Distribution by Rae Armantrout (The New Yorker)
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Glitter in My Wounds by CAConrad (Poetry Foundation)
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Managed Diversity by Daniel Borzutsky (Poets.org)
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gaza poem by Fargo Tbakhi (Peach Mag)
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Urning by Layli Long Soldier (Poets.org)
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Lone wolf narrative by Kristin Chang (wildness)
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American Arithmetic by Natalie Diaz (Lit Hub)
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I Have Lain in the Dirt and Known this Bed by Michelle Lin (The Wanderer)
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Origin Story for My Imminent Rebirth, Hammam by Aria Curtis (Fanzine)
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Lore by Nancy Huang (wildness)
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Becoming Ghost by Cathy Linh Che (Poets.org)
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Seraphim by Patricia Spears Jones (The New Yorker)
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101, Taipei by Nicholas Wong (Australian Book Review)
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portraitures and erasures by Chiwan Choi (Poets.org)
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War Story With My Father by Topaz Winters (Ellis Review)
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Self-Portrait in Closet by Shakthi Shrima (Vinyl)
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Lines Composed at 34 North Park Street, on Certain Memories of My White Grandmother Who Loved Me and Hated Black People Like Myself. July 15, 2017 by Shane McCrae (Tin House)
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Black Milk by Ghayath Almadhoun, trans. Catherine Cobham (Interim Poetics)
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In Jerusalem by Hala Alyan (Thrush Poetry Journal)
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Ann Lee by Eileen Myles (Lit Hub)