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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating show more with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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All, Poetry (49)
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Announced:
March 21: Winner2023 Recent
January 25: Finalist2023 Recent

Winner 49

WorkYear
Phantom Pain Wings by Hyesoon Kim2023
Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz2022
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss2021
Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems by francine j harris2020
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker2019
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón2018
WHEREAS: Poems by Layli Long Soldier2017
House of Lords and Commons: Poems by Ishion Hutchinson2016
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay2015
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine2014
Metaphysical Dog: Poems by Frank Bidart2013
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys: Poems by D.A. Powell2012
Space, In Chains by Laura Kasischke2011
One With Others: [a little book of her days] by C. D. Wright2010
Versed by Rae Armantrout2009
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera2008
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected by August Kleinzahler2008
Elegy: Poems by Mary Jo Bang2007
Tom Thomson In Purgatory by Troy Jollimore2006
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert2005
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich2004
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart2003
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems by B. H. Fairchild2002
Saving Lives: Poems by Albert Goldbarth2001
Carolina Ghost Woods by Judy Jordan2000
Ordinary Words by Ruth Stone1999
The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot1998
Black Zodiac: Poems by Charles Wright1997
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass1996
Time & Money by William Matthews1995
Rider: The Rider Quintet, vol. 1 (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Mark Rudman1994
Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 by Hayden Carruth1992
Heaven and earth : a cosmology : poems by Albert Goldbarth1991
Bitter Angel: Poems (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary) by Amy Gerstler1990
2011 Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses by Bill Henderson1989
The One Day by Donald Hall1988
Flesh & Blood: Poems by C. K. Williams1987
Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch1986
The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück1985
The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds1984
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill1983
A Coast of Trees by A. R. Ammons1981
Sunrise by Frederick Seidel1980
7 years from somewhere: Poems by Philip Levine1979
Ashes: Poems new & old by Philip Levine1979
Hello, darkness : the collected poems of L. E. Sissman by L. E. Sissman1978
Day by Day by Robert Lowell1977
Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop1976
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery1975

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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Finalists
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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Winners
(English, Member-written)

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