National Book Foundation Announces Poetry Longlist

Sep 13, 2016

The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. The finalists will be announced on October 13, and the winner at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York on November 16. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 230 submissions, and were selected by judges Mark Bibbins, Jericho Brown, Katie Ford, Joy Harjo, and Tree Swenson.

The titles are:

  • Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)
  • Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974–2004 (W. W. Norton & Company)
  • Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press)
  • Donald Hall, The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Jay Hopler, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)
  • Donika Kelly, Bestiary (Graywolf Press)
  • Jean Mead, World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books)
  • Solmaz Sharif, Look (Graywolf Press)
  • Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press)
  • Kevin Young, Blue Laws (Alfred A. Knopf)

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