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.