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    All the poets on the longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry are first timers.

    Rasheeda Saka
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    September 17, 2020, 10:15am

    And now, it’s the time for the poets! Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. The National Book Awards, created in 1950, is the most prestigious literary prize in the United States, rewarding bold and cogent writing. According to the National Book Foundation’s press release, the longlist includes emerging talents, mid-career writers, and traditionally-established poets; all the poets on the longlist are newcomers to the National Book Awards.

    The finalists will be revealed on October 6th, and the winners will be announced live at the virtual National Book Awards Ceremony on November 18th. Congrats to all!

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    2020 Longlist for the National Book Awards for Poetry

    Rick Barot, The Galleons

    Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A Treatise on Stars

    Lillian-Yvonne Bertman, Travesty Generator

    Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue

    Victoria Chang, Obit

    Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony

    Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha

    Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine

    Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

    Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Age of Phillis

    2020 National Book Award National Book Award National Book Award for Poetry National Book Foundation

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