2015 National Book Awards Longlist for Poetry

An emerging poet with a debut collection is among the Longlist
 
NEW YORK - Sept. 15, 2015 - PRLog -- Earlier today The National Book Foundation announced the Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. Finalists will be revealed on October 14.

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.

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