I admit the last three years is an arbitrary date, but it is very difficult to keep track of new/exciting developments in poetry as there is such a diaspora of poetry magazines, publishers across the world.
It could be a book, pamphlet or poem in a magazine.
For my part I'd recommend Adam Horowitz's Turning and Darcie Dennigan's Madame X.
So, who have you come across that's made you think "Wow".
I remember enjoying Hailey Leithauser's "Zen Heaven", the last poem in her collection Swoop.
My blog: https://frankhubeny.blog/
my vote for most exciting/important. i loosen the range a little bit to include tao lin:
you are a little bit happier than i am, Tao Lin (2006): incredible voice, funny as hell, instantly recognizable, readable, experimental all in one--the freshest and most exciting and encouraging and hopeful book of poems i've read in a long time.
Nox, Anne Carson (2010): not quite a book of poems, but a reproduction of what i'd call an artist's book she made eulogizing her late brother--still, i'd call this a poetic work, a work that, whether it consists mainly in poems or not, will have a major influence on poetics, moving forward. moving / innovative / exceptional.
Threshold Songs, Peter Gizzi (2012): i guess i'd call gizzi a post-language poet: in the line of the experimentally-minded, often abstruse language poets (studied under Bernstein & Howe, had some early involvement with that crowd through his editorship of oblek), but, like most / all poets following in their wake (or otherwise), a voice that necessarily bends to the needs of expression and the reality of the world of MFA programs and a progressively insular poetry readership--nonetheless, threshold songs is IMHO a wild leap forward from his previous volumes--in the meantime, he edited jack spicer's collected, my vocabulary did this to me, and the influence of his time with that work is everywhere in threshold songs--an important book.
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