National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerElegyMary Jo BangProvides a collection of poems examining grief and loss of an adult child....Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistModern LifeMatthea HarveyAmazonNew PoemsTadeusz RozewiczAmazonSleeping and WakingMichael O’BrienAmazonThe Ballad of Jamie AllanTom PickardAmazon

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerBlack ZodiacCharles WrightWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistDesireFrank BidartAmazonDoes Your House Have Lions?Sonya SanchezAmazonLoose SugarBrenda HillmanAmazonQuestions for EcclesiastesMark JarmanAmazon

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerVersedRae ArmantroutWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010) Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009) Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, off...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Village LifeLouise GlückAmazonCaptive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008Eleanor Ross TaylorAmazonChronicD.A. PowellAmazonMuseum of AccidentsRachel ZuckerAmazon

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSpace, in ChainsLaura Kasischke"Space, in Chains" speaks in ghostly voices, fractured narratives, songs, prayers, and dark riddles as it moves through contemporary tragedies of grief and the complex succession of generations. In her eighth book of poetry, Laura Kasischke has pared the c...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistCore Samples from the WorldForrest GanderAmazonDevotionsBruce SmithAmazonKingdom AnimaliaAracelis GirmayAmazonThe Chameleon CouchYusef KomunyakaaAmazon

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerUseless Landscape, or A Guide for BoysD. A. Powell*Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry* I have this rearrangement to make: symbolic death, my backward glance. The way the past is a kind of future leaning against the sporty hood. —from "Bugcatching at Twilight" In Useless Lands...Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBewilderment: New Poems and TranslationsDavid FerryAmazonFragile ActsAllan PetersonAmazonOlivesA. E. StallingsAmazonOn the Spectrum of Possible DeathsLucia PerilloAmazon

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerMetaphysical DogFrank BidartNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist A vital, searching new collection from one of finest American poets at work today In "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex c...Amazon2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBlowoutDenise DuhamelAmazonElegy OwedBob HicokAmazonMilk And FilthCarmen Gimenez SmithAmazonStay, IllusionLucie Brock-BroidoAmazon

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerCitizen: An American LyricClaudia Rankine...Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAbideJake Adam YorkAmazonOnce in the WestChristian WimanAmazonPrelude to BruiseSaeed JonesAmazonThe Essential Hits of Shorty Bon BonWillie PerdomoAmazon

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerCatalogue of Unabashed GratitudeRoss GayWinner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained m...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBright Dead ThingsAda LimónAmazonHow to Be DrawnTerrance HayesAmazonParallax and Selected PoemsSinéad MorrisseyAmazonWhat About This: Collected Poems of Frank StanfordFrank StanfordAmazon

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerHouse of Lords and CommonsIshion HutchinsonExquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and bein...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAt the Foundling HospitalRobert PinskyAmazonBlackacreMonica YounAmazonOlioTyehimba JessAmazonWorks and DaysBernadette MayerAmazon