BY JOANNA C. VALENTE
Here they are (and unlike many lists, this one has a lot of poetry, because poetry is not dead):
Katie Della-Valle & Stacy Skolnik - Rat Park (Montez Press) [review here]
Steven Sanchez - Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications) [review here]
Charlotte Seley - The World is My Rival (Spuyten Duyvil) [review here]
Kim Vodicka - Psychic Privates (White Stag Publishing) [review here]
Jacq Greyja - Greater Grave (The Operating System) [review here]
C.C. Hannett - I Gave This Dream to a Color (Spuyten Duyvil) [review here]
Kailey Tedesco and illustrated by Whitney Paper - She Used to Be on a Milk Carton (April Gloam Publishing) [review here]
Emily Corwin - Tenderling (Stalking Horse Press) [review here]
Joshua Byron - NB Carrie Bradshaw (Epigraph Magazine) [interview here]
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague - Jazzercise Is a Language (The Operating System) [review here]
R.O. Kwon - The Incendiaries (Riverhead Books)
Michael Seidlinger - My Pet Serial Killer (Fangoria)
Rachel Lyon - Self-Portrait with Boy (Scribner)
Chelsea Hodson - Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays (Holt Paperbacks)
Joel L. Daniels - A Book About Things I Will Tell My Daughter (Bottlecap Press)
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Sexting Ghosts, Xenos, No(body) (forthcoming, Madhouse Press, 2019), and is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault. They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes Poetry and the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Them, Brooklyn Magazine, BUST, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente / FB: joannacvalente