Comments on: Favorite poetry books of 2017: a crowd-sourced compendium

By: Wanted: Your picks for best poetry collections of 2019(ish) – Via Negativa

Wanted: Your picks for best poetry collections of 2019(ish) – Via Negativa — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:31:18 +0000

[…] screw that! Let’s make our own list(s). Starting in 2016 and continuing in 2017 a bunch of us chose one favorite book or chapbook we’d read that year, and it turned into a […]

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:36:40 +0000

Just got around to reading this, and what a list! I’m definitely going to be buying several of these, and I really appreciated the descriptions and comments by the readers, most of whom are very good poets themselves.

By: Cristina J. Baptista

Cristina J. Baptista — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:03:14 +0000

Thank you so much for this feature, as well as including me–I’m definitely adding the other poets here to my 2018 “to read” list!

By: Hollywood Starlet a 2017 Poetry Fave - Ivy Alvarez

Hollywood Starlet a 2017 Poetry Fave - Ivy Alvarez — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:33:32 +0000

[…] the rest of this crowd-sourced compendium of 2017 fave poetry reads at Dave Bonta’s Via Negativa, which includes Alvarez’s review of Bethany W. […]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:31:06 +0000

Dave, I contributed to this annual feature of yours last year, but this time I’m happy to be a reader who’s going to buy at least two of these books. I particularly appreciate that you don’t restrict the list to books published during the calendar year. So much poetry needs time to find readers who are poised to share it with like-minded people…

By: marlyyoumans

marlyyoumans — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:19:51 +0000

Thanks for doing this, Dave!