25 years, 25 poetry collections

Last month The Atlantic compiled a list of "The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)." Four of the 25 collections are by gay poets, and we've actually read two of them: Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds (#3 on the list; we discussed it in Feb. 2022) and Danez Smith's Night Sky with Exit Wounds (#24; we discussed it in April 2019). The other two books are Richard Siken's Crush (#6) and Jerico Brown's The Tradition (#14).