The Final Poetry Top 10 for 2011

Refusing Heaven, by Jack Gilbert

Song, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Without: Poems, by Donald Hall

Hoodwinked, by David Hernandez

Deepstep Come Shining, by C. D. Wright

In No One's Land, by Paige Ackerson-Kiely

The Great Fires, by Jack Gilbert

A Village Life, by Louise Glück

Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith

Dearest Creature, by Amy Gerstler

Well, this took forever to get posted, again due to my a desire to say something about the list. Here's the short version: author jags (Gilbert, Glück), recommendations (Kelly, Hall, Smith, Gerstler), class reading (Ackerson-Kiely, Wright) and sheer good luck (David Hernandez, whom I discovered through the wonderful AGNI Online). I'm starting to understand better what most appeals to me, and also where my tastes are starting to stretch (at least a little).