BY LISA MARIE BASILE
There is no real way to round up all the amazing work that has been birthed in 2016. There is too much good, too much power, too much beauty. Instead, here are the books and publications I have come back to time and again this year.
Favorite poetry collections:
Night — Etel Adnan
Chelate — Jay Besemer
The Performance of Becoming Human — Daniel Borzutzky
Flowers Among the Carrion — James Pate
My country, tonight — Josué Guébo
Take This Stallion by Anaïs Duplan
When the Ghosts Come Ashore — Jacqui Germain
Andes — by Tomaž Šalamun, trans. Jeffrey Young & Katarina Vladimirov Young
Six — Julie Marie Wade
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
The Hermit — Lucy Ives
Sad Girl Poems — Christopher Soto
Favorite literary presses, journals and publishers:
The Atlas Review
Tarpaulin Sky
Sibling Rivalry
Timeless, Infinite Light
Black Ocean
Lit Hub
Volume 1 Brooklyn
Witch Craft Magazine
Electric Lit
Switchback Books
Favorite reads:
The Establishment
Slutist
Ultra Culture
Broadly
Autostraddle
A Woman’s Thing
WEIRD SISTER
The Offing
Witch Craft Magazine
Queen Mob’s Teahouse
Quail Bell Magazine
Sabat Magazine
Bloodmilk Jewelry
Feminine Inquiry
For Harriet
St. Sucia
The Numinous
Dirge Magazine
Lumen Magazine
Blavity
Berfrois
Favorite magical reading twitter accounts:
@AstroPoets
@guerrillafem
@cultofweird
@DeathSalon
@deadmaidens
@mask_mag
@TheSilentMother
Lisa Marie Basile is the founding editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine and moderator of its digital community. Her work has appeared in The Establishment, Bustle, Bust, Hello Giggles, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, and The Huffington Post, among other sites. She is also the author of three poetry collections, including Apocryphal from Noctuary Press. She holds an MFA from The New School. @lisamariebasile