2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

Whereas

Layli Long Soldier

Whereas confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtu…

Directions for Use, translated by Steven Teref and Maja Teref

Ana Ristovic

Earthling

James Longenback

Fourth Person Singular

Nuar Alsadir

The Darkness of Snow

Frank Ormsby