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    Here’s the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry.

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    September 12, 2024, 10:00am

    Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 299 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Poetry are Richard Blanco (Chair), Carolyn Forché, Tyehimba Jess, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Rena Priest.

    The finalists will be announced on Tuesday, October 1, and the winners in all categories will be revealed at the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 20, 2024.

    Here’s the 2024 Poetry longlist:

    Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
    New Directions Publishing

    Fady Joudah, […]
    Milkweed Editions

    Dorianne Laux, Life on Earth
    Norton / W. W. Norton & Company

    Gregory Pardlo, Spectral Evidence
    Knopf / Penguin Random House

    Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Silver
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

    Octavio Quintanilla, The Book of Wounded Sparrows
    Texas Review Press

    m.s. RedCherries, mother
    Penguin Books / Penguin Random House

    Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry
    Graywolf Press

    Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Something About Living
    University of Akron Press

    Elizabeth Willis, Liontaming in America
    New Directions Publishing

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