Here is the Poetry Longlist for the 2018 National Book Awards
On this, the Nicest Year of the Awards
The National Book Foundation has announced the ten books contending for this year’s National Book Award in Poetry. The longlisted titles were chosen from a total of 256 books submitted to the foundation by publishers, and will be judged by a panel comprised of Mary Jo Bang (Chair), Ken Chen, Elise Paschen, Danez Smith, and Stephen Sparks. All of the National Book Award Finalists will be announced on October 10, and the winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 14th at the 2018 National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York City.
The full longlist:
Rae Armantrout, Wobble
Wesleyan University Press
(Read an interview with Armantrout here.)
Jos Charles, feeld
Milkweed Editions
(Read two poems from feeld here.)
Forrest Gander, Be With
New Directions
(Read Gander on translating Neruda here.)
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House
(Read poems from American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin here and here.)
J. Michael Martinez, Museum of the Americas
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House
Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of
Omnidawn Publishing
Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency
Coffee House Press
(Read an interview with Justin Phillip Reed here.)
Raquel Salas Rivera, lo terciario / the tertiary
Timeless, Infinite Light
Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Jenny Xie, Eye Level
Graywolf Press
(Read a poem from Eye Level here.)
