National Book Award for Poetry

Annual literary award in the United States

National Book Award for Poetry

Awarded for| Outstanding poetry work by U.S. citizens.
Location| New York City
Reward(s)| $10,000 USD (winner)
$1,000 USD (finalists)
First award| 1967–1983, 1991
Website| National Book Foundation

The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".[1] The judging panel is made up of five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".[2]

The category for Poetry was established in 1950 and has been awarded annually apart from the period 1984 to 1990.[3]

The Poetry award and many others were eliminated from the program when it was revamped in 1984. It was restored in 1991, for current-year publications, with a standard five finalists announced a few weeks prior to the main event.

The award recognizes one book written by a US citizen and published in the US from December 1 of the previous year to November 30 in the award year. The National Book Foundation accepts nominations from publishers until June 15, requires mailing nominated books to the panelists by August 1, and announces five finalists in October. The winner is announced on the day of the final ceremony in November. The award is $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; other finalists receive $1000, a medal, and a citation written by the panel.[4]

There were 148 nominations for the 2010 award.[5] This had risen to 299 submissions by 2024.[6]

## Winners and Nominees

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† marks winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[7]

* marks finalists of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[7]

National Book Award for Poetry winners, finalists, and longlisted entries  Year  | Author  | Title(s)  | Result

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1950 | William Carlos Williams | Paterson: Book Three and Selected Poems (two books)  | Winner[8]
1951 | Wallace Stevens | The Auroras of Autumn | Winner
1952[9] | Marianne Moore | Collected Poems † | Winner
W. H. Auden | Nones | Finalist
William Rose Benèt | The Spirit of the Scene
Richard Eberhart | Selected Poems
Horace Gregory | Selected Poems of Horace Gregory
Randall Jarrell | The Seven-League Crutches
Theodore Roethke | Praise to the End!
Muriel Rukeyser | Selected Poems
William Carlos Williams | Paterson: Book Four
Collected Earlier Poems
1953[10] | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems, 1917–1952 † | Winner
Stanley Burnshaw | Early and Late Testament | Finalist
Thomas H. Ferril | New and Selected Poems
Robert Hillyer | The Suburb by the Sea
Ernest Kroll  | Cape Horns and Other Poems
W. S. Merwin | A Mask For Janus
Byron H. Reece | A Song of Joy
Naomi Replansky | Ring Song
Kenneth Rexroth | The Dragon and the Unicorn
Jesse Stuart | Kentucky is My Land
Ridgley Torrence | Poems
Peter Viereck | First Morning: First Poems
1954 | Conrad Aiken | Collected Poems | Winner
1955[11] | Wallace Stevens | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens † | Winner
Léonie Adams | Poems: A Selection | Finalist
Louise Brogan | Collected Poems, 1923–1953
E. E. Cummings | Poems, 1923–1954
Robinson Jeffers | Hungerfield and Other Poems
Archibald MacLeish | Songs for Eve
Phyllis McGinley | The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley
Merrill Moore | The Verse Diary of a Psychiatrist
LeRoy Smith | A Character Invented
May Swenson | Another Animal
William Carlos Williams | The Desert Music and Other Poems
Marya Zaturenska | Selected Poems
1956[12] | W. H. Auden | The Shield of Achilles | Winner
Elizabeth Bishop | Poems, North and South† | Finalist
John Ciardi | As If
Isabella Gardner | Birthdays from the Ocean
Donald Hall | Exiles and Marriages
Randall Jarrell | Selected Poems
Adrienne Rich | The Diamond Cutters
William Carlos Williams | Journey to Love
1957[13] | Richard Wilbur | Things of This World † | Winner
Egar Bowers | The Form of Loss | Finalist
Leah Bodine Drake | This Tilting Dust
Charles E. Eaton | Greenhouse in the Garden
Kenneth Fearing | New and Selected Poems
Robert Fitzgerald | In the Rose of Time: Poems, 1939–1956
Katherine Hoskins | Villa Narcisse
Rolph Humphries | Green Armor on Green Ground
Joseph Langland | Poems in POEMS OF TODAY, III
Anne Morrow Lindbergh | The Unicorn
W. S. Merwin | Green with Beasts
Marianne Moore | Like a Bulwark
Ezra Pound | Section: Rock Drill
Kenneth Rexroth | In Defense of the Earth
John Hall Wheelock | Poems of Old and New
1958[14] | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems, 1954–1956 † | Winner
Daniel Berrigan | Time without Number | Finalist
Phillip Booth | Letter from a Distant Land
Edwin G. Burrows | The Arctic Tern
Hilda Doolittle | The Selected Poems of H.D.
Richard Eberhart | Great Praises
Richmond Lattimore | Poems
Howard Moss | Swimmer in the Air
May Sarton | In Time Like Air
Eli Siegel | Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
William Jay Smith | Poems: 1947–1957
Wallace Stevens | Opus Posthumous
James Wright | The Green Wall
1959[15] | Theodore Roethke | Words for the Wind: Poems of Theodore Roethke | Winner
John Ciardi | I Marry You | Finalist
E. E. Cummings | Selected Poems, 1923–1958
Archibald MacLeish | J.B.
Howard Nemerov | Mirrors and Windows
Theodore Roethke | Collected Poems
Karl Shapiro | Poems of a Jew
May Swenson | A Cage of Spines
William Carlos Williams | Paterson: Book Five
1960[16] | Robert Lowell | Life Studies | Winner
1961[17] | Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations | Winner
W. H. Auden | Homage to Clio | Finalist
J. V. Cunningham | The Exclusions of Rhyme
Robert Duncan | The Opening of the Field
Richard Eberhart | Collected Poems
Donald Justice | The Summer Anniversaries
Howard Nemerov | New and Selected Poems
John Frederick Nims | Knowledge of the Evening
Anne Sexton | To Bedlam and Part Way Back
George Starbuck | Bone Thoughts
Eleanor Ross Taylor | Wilderness of Ladies
Theodore Weiss | Outlanders
Yvor Winters | Collected Poems
1962[18] | Alan Dugan | Poems † | Winner
Robert Bagg | Madonna of the Cello | Finalist
Phillip Booth | The Islanders
John Ciardi | In the Stoneworks
Hilda Doolittle | Helen in Egypt
Abbie Huston Evans | Faces of Crystal
Isabella Gardner | The Looking Glass
Horace Gregory | Medusa in Gramercy Park
John Holmes | The Fortune Teller
Denise Levertov | The Jacob's Ladder
Ned O'Gorman | Adam Before His Mirror
John Hall Wheelock | The Gardner and other Poems
1963[19] | William Stafford | Traveling Through the Dark | Winner
Robert Creeley | For Love | Finalist
Donald F. Drummond  | The Drawbridge
Robert Frost | In the Clearing
Kenneth Koch | Thank You and Other Poems
Howard Nemerov | The Next Room of the Dream
Winfield T. Scott | Collected Poems
Anne Sexton | All My Pretty Ones
William Carlos Williams | Pictures from Brueghel †
1964[20] | John Crowe Ransom | Selected Poems | Winner
W. S. Merwin | The Moving Target | Finalist
Louis Simpson | At the End of the Open Road †
May Swenson | To Mix With Time
1965[21] | Theodore Roethke | The Far Field (posth.)  | Winner
Ben Belitt | The Enemy Joy | Finalist
John Berryman | 77 Dream Songs †
James Dickey | Helmets
Galway Kinnell | Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
Robert Lowell | For the Union Dead
William Meredith | The Wreck of the Thresher
1966[22] | James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice: Poems | Winner
W. H. Auden | About the House | Finalist
Elizabeth Bishop | Questions of Travel
Richard Eberhart | Selected Poems (1930–1965) †
Irving Feldman | The Pripet Marshes
Randall Jarrell | The Lost World
Louis Simpson | Selected Poems
1967[23] | James Merrill | Nights and Days | Winner
John Ashbery | Rivers and Mountains | Finalist
Barbara Howes | Looking Up at the Leaves
Marianne Moore | Tell Me, Tell Me
Adrienne Rich | Necessities of Life
William Jay Smith | The Tin Can and Other Poems
1968[24] | Robert Bly | The Light Around the Body | Winner
Theodosius Dobzhansky | The Biology of Ultimate Concern | Finalist
Denise Levertov | The Sorrow Dance
W. S. Merwin | The Lice
Kenneth Rexroth | Complete Poems
Louis Zukofsky | A-12
1969[25] | John Berryman | His Toy, His Dream, His Rest | Winner
Gwendolyn Brooks | In the Mecca | Finalist
Galway Kinnell | Body Rags
John Thompson | The Talking Girl
Keith Waldrop | A Windmill Near Calvary
1970[26] | Elizabeth Bishop | The Complete Poems | Winner
Daniel Berrigan | False Gods, Real Men | Finalist
Lawrence Ferlinghetti | The Secret Meaning of Things
Robert Lowell | Notebook, 1967–68
Philip Whalen | On Bear's Head
1971[27] | Mona Van Duyn | To See, to Take: Poems | Winner
Gregory Corso | Elegiac Feelings American | Finalist
W. S. Merwin | The Carrier of Ladders †
May Swenson | Iconographs
1972[28] | Frank O'Hara | The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (posth.)  | Winner[a]
Howard Moss | Selected Poems
A. R. Ammons | Briefings: Poems Small and Easy | Finalist
Jon Anderson | Death & Friends
Robert Fitzgerald | Spring Shade: Poems, 1931–1970
Robert Hayden | Words in the Mourning Time
John Hollander | The Night Mirror
Galway Kinnell | The Book of Nightmares
David Shapiro | A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel
Allen Tate | The Swimmers and Other Selected Poems
James Wright | Collected Poems †
1973[29] | A. R. Ammons | Collected Poems, 1951–1971 | Winner
W. H. Auden | Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems | Finalist
John Berryman | Delusions, Etc.
Richard Eberhart | Fields of Grace
Samuel Hazo  | Once for the Last Bandit
John Hollander | Town and Country Matters
Denise Levertov | FootPrints
Archibald MacLeish | The Human Season
James Merrill | Braving the Elements
Frederick Morgan | A Book of Change
Ishmael Reed | Conjure
Louis Simpson | Adventures of the Letter I
1974[30] | Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972 | Winner[a]
Allen Ginsberg | The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965–1971
Hayden Carruth | From Snow and Rock, from Chaos | Finalist
Evan S. Connell Jr. | Points for a Compass Rose
Peter Everwine | Collecting the Animals
Richard Hugo | The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
Donald Justice | Departures
Eleanor Lerman | Armed Love
Audre Lorde | From a Land Where Other People Live
Alice Walker | Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
Charles Wright | Hard Freight
1975[31] | Marilyn Hacker | Presentation Piece | Winner
A. R. Ammons | Sphere: The Form of a Motion | Finalist
John Balaban | After Our War
Albert Goldbarth | Jan 31
Richard Howard | Two-Part Inventions
Josephine Jacobsen | The Shade-Seller
Michael Ryan | Threats Instead of Trees
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer | Granite Lady
David Wagoner | Sleeping in the Woods
Reed Whittemore | The Mother's Breast and the Father's House
1976[32] | John Ashbery | Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror † | Winner
Richard Hugo | What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American | Finalist
P.J. Laska  | D.C. Images
John N. Morris  | The Life Beside This One
Leonard Nathan | Returning Your Call
George Oppen | Collected Poems
Carolyn M. Rodgers | How I Got Ovah
Sherley Anne Williams | The Peacock Poems
1977[33] | Richard Eberhart | Collected Poems, 1930–1976: Including 43 New Poems | Winner
Irving Feldman | Leaping Clear and Other Poems | Finalist
Margaret Newlin  | The Snow Falls Upward
Muriel Rukeyser | The Gates
David Wagoner | Collected Poems, 1956–1976
1978[34] | Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov † | Winner
Marvin Bell | Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See | Finalist
Michael S. Harper | Images of Kin
Barbara Howes | A Private Signal
Charles Simic | Charon's Cosmology
1979 | James Merrill | Mirabell: Books of Number | Winner
Robert Hayden | American Journal | Finalist
Sandra McPherson | The Year of Our Birth
Philip Schultz | Like Wings
May Swenson | New & Selected Things Taking Place
1980[35] | Philip Levine | Ashes: Poems New and Old | Winner
Stanley Kunitz | The Poems of Stanley Kunitz | Finalist
David Wagoner | In Broken Country
1981[36] | Lisel Mueller | The Need to Hold Still: Poems | Winner
Philip Booth | Before Sleep | Finalist
Isabella Gardner | That Was Then
Mark Strand | Selected Poems*
Robert Penn Warren | Being Here
1982[37] | William Bronk | Life Supports: New and Collected Poems | Winner
A. R. Ammons | A Coast of Trees | Finalist
John Ashbery | Shadow Train
Douglas Crase | The Revisionist
Daniel Hoffman | Brotherly Love
1983 | Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems † | Winner[a]
Charles Wright | Country Music: Selected Early Poems*
Mona Van Duyn | Letters from a Father and Other Poems | Finalist
Jack Gilbert | Monolithos*
Linda Pastan | PM/AM
Not awarded 1984 – 1990
1991[38] | Philip Levine | What Work Is | Winner
Andrew Hudgins | The Never-Ending | Finalist
Linda McCarriston | Eva-Mary
Adrienne Rich | An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988–1991*
Marilyn Nelson Waniek | The Homeplace: Poems
1992[39] | Mary Oliver | New and Selected Poems (vol. 1 of two)  | Winner
Hayden Carruth | Collected Shorter Poems | Finalist
Louise Glück | The Wild Iris †
Susan Mitchell | Rapture
Gary Snyder | No Nature
1993[40] | A. R. Ammons | Garbage | Winner
Mark Doty | My Alexandria | Finalist
Margaret Gibson | The Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices
Donald Hall | The Museum of Clear Ideas
Lawrence Raab | What We Don't Know About Each Other
1994[41] | James Tate | Worshipful Company of Fletchers | Winner
Richard Howard | Like Most Revelations | Finalist
David St. John | A Study for the World's Body
Heather McHugh | Hinge and Sign: Poems, 1968–1993
Anne Porter | An Altogether Different Language
1995[42] | Stanley Kunitz | Passing Through: The Later Poems | Winner
Barbara Howes | Collected Poems, 1945–1990 | Finalist
Josephine Jacobsen | In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems
Donald Justice | New and Selected Poems*
Gary Soto | New and Selected Poems
1996[43] | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991–1995 | Winner
Lucille Clifton | The Terrible Stories | Finalist
Robert Hass | Sun Under Wood
Alicia Suskin Ostriker | The Crack in Everything
Charles Simic | Walking the Black Cat
1997[44] | William Meredith | Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems | Winner
John Balaban | Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems | Finalist
Frank Bidart | Desire*
Sarah Lindsay | Primate Behavior
Marilyn Nelson | The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
1998[45] | Gerald Stern | This Time: New and Selected Poems | Winner
B. H. Fairchild | The Art of the Lathe | Finalist
Alicia Suskin Ostriker | The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1998
Linda Pastan | Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968–1998
Carl Phillips | From the Devotions
1999[46] | Ai | Vice: New and Selected Poems | Winner
Louise Glück | Vita Nova | Finalist
Clarence Major | Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958–1998
Sherod Santos | The Pilot Star Elegies
C.K. Williams | Repair†
2000[47] | Lucille Clifton | Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 | Winner
Kim Addonizio | Tell Me | Finalist
Galway Kinnell | A New Selected Poems
Kenneth Koch | New Addresses: Poems
Bruce Smith | The Other Lover*
2001[48] | Alan Dugan | Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry | Winner
Agha Shahid Ali | Rooms are Never Finished | Finalist
Wanda Coleman | Mercurochrome
Cornelius Eady | Brutal Imagination
Gail Mazur | They Can't Take That Away from Me
2002[49] | Ruth Stone | In the Next Galaxy | Winner
Harryette Mullen | Sleeping with the Dictionary | Finalist
Sharon Olds | The Unswept Room
Alberto Rios | The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Ellen Bryant Voigt | Shadow of Heaven
2003[50] | C. K. Williams | The Singing | Winner
Carol Muske-Dukes | Sparrow | Finalist
Charles Simic | The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
Louis Simpson | The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940–2001
Kevin Young | Jelly Roll: A Blues
2004[51] | Jean Valentine | Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003 | Winner
William Heyen | Shoah Train | Finalist
Donald Justice | Collected Poems
Carl Phillips | The Rest of Love
Cole Swensen | Goest
2005[52] | W. S. Merwin | Migration: New and Selected Poems | Winner
John Ashbery | Where Shall I Wander: New Poems | Finalist
Frank Bidart | Star Dust: Poems
Brendan Galvin | Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965–2005
Vern Rutsala | The Moment's Equation
2006[53] | Nathaniel Mackey | Splay Anthem | Winner
Louise Glück | Averno | Finalist
H. L. Hix | Chromatic
Ben Lerner | Angle of Yaw
James L. McMichael | Capacity
2007[54] | Robert Hass | Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005† | Winner
Linda Gregerson | Magnetic North | Finalist
David Kirby | The House on Boulevard St.
Stanley Plumly | Old Heart
Ellen Bryant Voigt | Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976–2006*
2008[55] | Mark Doty | Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems | Winner
Frank Bidart | Watching the Spring Festival* | Finalist
Reginald Gibbons | Creatures of a Day
Richard Howard | Without Saying
Patricia Smith | Blood Dazzler
2009[56] | Keith Waldrop | Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy | Winner
Rae Armantrout | Versed † | Finalist
Ann Lauterbach | Or to Begin Again
Carl Phillips | Speak Low
Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon | Open Interval
2010[57] | Terrance Hayes | Lighthead | Winner
Kathleen Graber | The Eternal City | Finalist
James Richardson | By the Numbers
C.D. Wright | One with Others
Monica Youn | Ignatz
2011[58] | Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split: Poems | Winner
Yusef Komunyakaa | The Chameleon Couch | Finalist
Carl Phillips | Double Shadow
Adrienne Rich | Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems: 2007–2010
Bruce Smith | Devotions
2012[59] | David Ferry | Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations | Winner
Susan Wheeler | Meme | Finalist
Cynthia Huntington | Heavenly Bodies
Tim Seibles | Fast Animal
Alan Shapiro | Night of the Republic
2013[60] | Mary Szybist | Incarnadine | Winner
Frank Bidart | Metaphysical Dog | Finalist
Lucie Brock-Broido | Stay, Illusion
Adrian Matejka | The Big Smoke*
Matt Rasmussen | Black Aperture
Roger Bonair-Agard | Bury My Clothes | Longlist
Andrei Codrescu | So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968–2012
Brenda Hillman | Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
Diane Raptosh | American Amnesiac
Martha Ronk | Transfer of Qualities
2014[61] | Louise Glück | Faithful and Virtuous Night | Winner
Fanny Howe | Second Childhood | Finalist[62]
Maureen N. McLane | This Blue
Fred Moten | The Feel Trio
Claudia Rankine | Citizen
Linda Bierds | Roget's Illusion | Longlist
Brian Blanchfield | A Several World
Edward Hirsch | Gabriel: A Poem
Spencer Reece | The Road to Emmaus
Mark Strand | Collected Poems
2015[63] | Robin Coste Lewis | Voyage of the Sable Venus | Winner
Ross Gay | Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Finalist
Terrance Hayes | How to Be Drawn
Ada Limón | Bright Dead Things
Patrick Phillips | Elegy for a Broken Machine
Amy Gerstler | Scattered at Sea | Longlist
Marilyn Hacker | A Stranger's Mirror
Jane Hirshfield | The Beauty
Lawrence Raab | Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Heaven
2016[64] | Daniel Borzutzky | The Performance of Becoming Human | Winner
Rita Dove | Collected Poems 1974–2004 | Finalist
Peter Gizzi | Archeophonics
Jay Hopler | The Abridged History of Rainfall
Solmaz Sharif | Look
Donald Hall | The Selected Poems of Donald Hall | Longlist
Donika Kelly | Bestiary
Jane Mead | World of Made and Unmade
Monica Youn | Blackacre
Kevin Young | Blue Laws
2017[65] | Frank Bidart | Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 † | Winner
Leslie Harrison | The Book of Endings | Finalist
Layli Long Soldier | WHEREAS
Shane McCrae | In the Language of My Captor
Danez Smith | Don't Call Us Dead
Chen Chen | When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities | Longlist
Mai Der Vang | Afterland
Marie Howe | Magdalene
Laura Kasischke | Where Now: New and Selected Poems
Sherod Santos | Square Inch Hours
2018[66] | Justin Phillip Reed | Indecency | Winner
Rae Armantrout | Wobble | Finalist
Terrance Hayes | American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Diana Khoi Nguyen | Ghost Of
Jenny Xie | Eye Level
Jos Charles | feeld* | Longlist
Forrest Gander | Be With †
J. Michael Martinez | Museum of the Americas
Raquel Salas Rivera | lo terciario / the tertiary
Natasha Trethewey | Monument: Poems New and Selected
2019 | Arthur Sze | Sight Lines | Winner[67]
Jericho Brown | The Tradition † | Finalist[68]
Toi Derricotte | "I": New and Selected Poems
Ilya Kaminsky | Deaf Republic
Carmen Giménez Smith | Be Recorder
Dan Beachy-Quick | Variations on Dawn and Dusk | Longlist[69]
Camonghne Felix | Build Yourself a Boat
Ariana Reines | A Sand Book
Mary Ruefle | Dunce*
Brian Teare  | Doomstead Days
2020[70] | Don Mee Choi | DMZ Colony | Winner[71]
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge | A Treatise on Stars*  | Finalist[72]
Tommye Blount | Fantasia for the Man in Blue
Anthony Cody | Borderland Apocrypha
Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem †
Rick Barot | The Galleons | Longlist[73]
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram | Travesty Generator
Victoria Chang | Obit
Eduardo C. Corral | Guillotine
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | The Age of Phillis
2021[74] | Martín Espada | Floaters | Winner[75]
Desiree C. Bailey | What Noise Against the Cane | Finalist[76]
Douglas Kearney | Sho
Hoa Nguyen | A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
Jackie Wang | The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
Threa Almontaser | The Wild Fox of Yemen | Longlist[77]
Baba Badji  | Ghost Letters
CM Burroughs  | Master Suffering
Andrés Cerpa  | The Vault
Forrest Gander | Twice Alive
2022[78] | John Keene | Punks: New & Selected Poems | Winner[79]
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke | Look at This Blue | Finalist[80]
Sharon Olds | Balladz
Roger Reeves | Best Barbarian
Jenny Xie | The Rupture Tense
Rio Cortez  | Golden Ax | Longlist[81]
Jay Hopler | Still Life*
Sherry Shenoda  | Mummy Eaters
Quincy Troupe | Duende
Shelley Wong | As She Appears
2023[82] | Craig Santos Perez | from unincorporated territory [åmot] | Winner[83]
John Lee Clark | How to Communicate | Finalist[84]
Evie Shockley | suddenly we
Brandon Som | Tripas †
Monica Youn | From From
Oliver de la Paz | The Diaspora Sonnets | Longlist[85]
Charif Shanahan | Trace Evidence
Paisley Rekdal | West: A Translation
Annelyse Gelman | Vexations
José Olivarez | Promises of Gold
2024 | Lena Khalaf Tuffaha | Something About Living | Winner[86]
Anne Carson | Wrong Norma | Finalist[87]
Fady Joudah | [...]
m.s. RedCherries | mother
Diane Seuss | Modern Poetry
Dorianne Laux | Life on Earth | Longlist[88]
Gregory Pardlo | Spectral Evidence
Octavio Quintanilla | The Book of Wounded Sparrows
Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Silver
Elizabeth Willis | Liontaming in America

## Multiple wins

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See Winners of multiple U.S. National Book Awards

The following individuals received two or more National Book Awards for Poetry:

Wins  | Poet  | Years

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2  | A. R. Ammons | 1973, 1993
Alan Dugan | 1962, 2001
Philip Levine | 1980, 1991
James Merrill | 1967, 1979
Theodore Roethke | 1959, 1965
Wallace Stevens | 1951, 1955

## See also

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* Poetry of the United States
* List of poetry awards
* List of years in poetry

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c The Poetry panels split the 1972, 1974, and 1983 awards. Split awards have been prohibited continuously from 1984 (and the same reform eliminated the Poetry category, restored 1992).

## References

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8. ^ "National Book Awards – 1950" Archived 2018-11-14 at the Wayback Machine. NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
(With essays by Neil Baldwin and Ross Gay from the Awards 50-year print publication(?) and 60-year anniversary blog. Baldwin covers the award-sharing book: "The edition of the Selected Poems brought out in 1949 has of necessity over the past half-century been emended and expanded many times. ...")
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