
The longlist for the 2016 National Book Award in Poetry includes four NER poets: Rita Dove, who appeared in our pages as early as 1984, and Jane Mead, who will make her first NER appearance in 37.3, out later this month. Also on the longlist are Kevin Young (28.4) and Monica Youn (most recently 37.1). Congratulations to all the poets on the NBA list this year!
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
National Book Awards finalists will be announced on October 13th, and winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York on November 16th.