What I’m reading

2021

January: Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self; Sandra Lim, The Wilderness; Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers; Catherine Lacey, Certain American States; The Best American Short Stories 2020

February: Catherine Lacey, Certain American States; Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections; Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden; Cameron Awkward-Rich, Dispatch; Robin Coste-Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus; Morgan Parker, Magical Negro

March: Alexandra Kleeman, Intimations; Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan; Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man; The Best American Poetry 2019

April: The Paris Review; The New Yorker; Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of; Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Likes; Sally Wen Mao, Oculus; The Best American Poetry 2019

May: Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk, Blood, Heat; Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Likes; Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man; Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello, The New Yorker, Divas of Verse

June: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello; Caroline Kim, The Prince of Mournful Thoughts; Violet Kupersmith, The Frangipani Hotel, Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

July: Emma Cline, Daddy; Clare Sestanovich, Objects of Desire; Brandon Taylor, Filthy Animals; Garth Greenwell, Cleanness; Yi Lei, My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree

August: Ploughshares, summer 2021; Garth Greenwell, Cleanness; Brandon Taylor, Filthy Animals; Alix Ohlin, Signs and Wonders; Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies; Emily Jungmin Yoon, A Cruelty Special to Our Species; Yi Lei, My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree; Sandra Lim, The Curious Thing