The Final Top 10 for 2010

Fire to Fire, by Mark Doty

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender

The Ticking Is the Bomb, by Nick Flynn

The Art of Description by Mark Doty

Name All the Animals, by Alison Smith

A Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück

Native Guard, by Natasha Trethewey

All-American Poem, by Matthew Dickman

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, by Steve Almond

This has sat in my "drafts" folder for almost a year, waiting for me to come up with something else to say for it, and I'm giving up and moving on to 2011. 2010 was the year I started reading a lot of poetry, and I think for 2011 I will have separate lists for poetry and prose -- see the sidebar.