An on again - off again series for me, yet a series that I have to check out each year - even if it only introduces me to one or two poets that I hadn't read before. I really liked this year's volume quite a bit, folding over many pages and adding many books to my Amazon wishlist.

Interesting notes:

I always find it fascinating in a collection like this - where it is arranged alphabetically - that I would find sections that I prefer. In this particular collection, I found that I vastly preferred the first half of the alphabet to the second half. The vast majority of folded pages occur before page 53.

I folded over the page of a poem by Craig Morgan Teicher before I realized I had given his book 2 stars. This poem was not included, but I felt it was much stronger than the book I read.

The gender breakdown: my favorites in this collection included 9 female and 10 male poets.

I found myself having less interest in the author's notes this time around. Me? Or the writing?