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Follow on Google News | 2015 National Book Awards Longlist for PoetryAn emerging poet with a debut collection is among the Longlist
Well-known contemporary poets and one emerging poet with a debut collection make up this year’s Longlist. Included among them are two former National Book Award Winners, a former National Book Award Finalist, a Whiting Writers’ Award winner, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and two Cave Canem Fellows. The ten poets, five men and five women, reside in six different states and one foreign country. 2015 Longlist for Poetry: Ross Gay,Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Pitt Poetry Series/University of Pittsburgh Press Amy Gerstler, Scattered at Sea, Penguin Books/Penguin Random House Marilyn Hacker, A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014, W. W. Norton & Company Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn, Penguin Books/Penguin Random House Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty, Alfred A. Knopf Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus, Alfred A. Knopf Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things, Milkweed Editions Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine, Alfred A. Knopf Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Lawrence Raab, Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts, Tupelo Press For Poets' Biographies, visit www.nationalbook.org Publishers submitted a total of 221 books for the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. Five distinguished Judges were given the charge of selecting what they deem to be the best books of the year. Their decisions are made independently of the National Book Foundation staff and Board of Directors; deliberations are strictly confidential. To be eligible for a 2015 National Book Award, a book must have been written by a US citizen and published in the United States between December 1, 2014 and November 30, 2015. End
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