National Book Awards in Poetry
The National Book Foundation have announced its winners of National Book Awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people�s literature. Each winner will be awarded $10,000, and each finalist will take home $1,000.
For Poetry, the winnner is Frank Bidart for Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
FINALISTS
Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press)
Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS (Graywolf Press)
Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press)
Danez Smith, Don�t Call Us Dead: Poems (Graywolf Press) finalists:
Books on the judges' long list are:
Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)
Laura Kasischke, Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
Sherod Santos, Square Inch Hours (W. W. Norton & Company)
Mai Der Vang, Afterland (Graywolf Press)
The judges for poetry were Nick Flynn, Jane Mead, Gregory Pardlo, Richard Siken, Monica Youn (Chair).
(University of Pittsburgh Press)
(Penguin/Penguin Random House)
(Milkweed Editions)
(Alfred A. Knopf)