Continuing with our series of “Best of 2019″ 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 2019.
In no particular order…
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“Three Poems” by Norma Liliana Valdez (PANK)
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“A Woman Walks Into a Bar” by Julianne Neely (Peach Mag)
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“Sleepers” by Arthur Sze (Poem-a-Day, Poets.org)
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“I hear a dog who is always in my death” by Samuel Ace (Poem-a-Day, Poets.org)
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“Columbine” by Javier Zamora (LitHub)
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“ghazal for leaving or staying” by Urvi Kumbhat (The Margins)
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“姓” by Megan Sungyoon (The Margins)
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“All Accounts and Mixture: Poems” by Audra Puchalski (CutBank)
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“felo-de-se—Melissa” by TC Tolbert (The Nation)
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“Lean on the Water” by Kim Hyesoon, trans. Don Mee Choi (LitHub)
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“Yes, Crosshatch, I Feel You.” by Hari Alluri (Wildness)
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“Black Lagoon” by chekwube o. danladi (Wildness)
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“Separation Anxiety” by Janice Lee (Berfrois)
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“Grief #913” by Saeed Jones (Tin House)
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“Countdown as Slow Kisses” by Michael Wasson (Poem-a-Day, Poets.org)
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“from Syncope“ by Asiya Wadud (Verse.Press)
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“ON TWO WORDS THAT MEAN THE SAME THING: AN ELEGY FOR MY PEOPLE WITH AN INTIMATE EPILOGUE” by Sébastien Bernard (Nat. Brut)
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“Auto-Immune” by Destiny Birdsong (Guernica)
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“One Night in 1888, as the French steamboat Abd-el-Kader powered from Marseilles to Algiers, news reports proclaim the sky became quite black with swallows” by Camille T. Dungy (Orion)
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“Phytogeography of the Interior” by Eloisa Amezcua (Orion)