#daniel bailey

MY FAVORITE POETRY OF 2021 (Prologue) This past fall semester I taught the most I ever have (five days a week, split between two campuses). Surprisingly, I didn’t go to the wrong school once! This schedule took away my writing day, but I was still able to carve out time to write. I think Cate Marvin said in an interview once that the world doesn’t want you to write, that to write is to resist against the capitalist spin of the world.

Personally, this was a good year for me publication-wise. My chapbook, Small Town, was published by The Magnificent Field. I had two poems published as part of two different anthologies: The Little Black Book of Bedfellows and Belt Publishing’s The Indianapolis Anthology.Additionally, I had 15 poems published across ten different journals.

As always, these books are just my favorite, not a best-of list. There are many I didn’t have the time to read and look forward to reading in the future.

FAVORITE FULL-LENGTH POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2021 A Better Word for the World by Daniel Bailey (Apocalypse Party) Hoarders by Kate Durbin (Wave Books) Wings in Time by Callie Garnett (The Song Cave) Returning the Sword to the Stone by Mark Leidner (Fonograf Editions) Salad Days by Laura Theobald (Maudlin House)

FAVORITE CHAPBOOK OF 2021 Mushrooms Yearly Planner by Jen Tynes (above/ground press)

AND THE DEL TACO WHERE YOU MET THE PERSON YOU HATE

AND THEY ARE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE TOWN

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