National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerWhereasLayli Long SoldierWhereas 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...Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistDirections for Use, translated by Steven Teref and Maja TerefAna RistovicAmazonEarthlingJames LongenbackAmazonFourth Person SingularNuar AlsadirAmazonThe Darkness of SnowFrank OrmsbyAmazon

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe CarryingAda LimónWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2019 Ada Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation . . . a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability' Tracy K. Smith, Guardian 'Vulnerable, tender, acute . . . The Carrying is a gift' Natasha Tret...Amazon2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinTerrance HayesAmazonAsymmetry, translated by Clare CavanaghAdam ZagajewskiAmazonHoly Moly Carry MeErika MeitnerAmazonStill Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a GirlDiane SeussAmazon

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerWild GratitudeEdward HirschAn excerpt from the poem, Wild Gratitude: "Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey, And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth, And rubbed her swollen belly that will never know kittens, And watched her wriggle onto her side, pawing the air, An...Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAll of Us Here and Other PoemsIrving FeldmanAmazonCats of the TempleBrad LeithauserAmazonSapphics Against AngerTimothy SteeleAmazonThe Key to the CityAnne WintersAmazon

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerGeography IIIElizabeth BishopWhether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small em...Amazon1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistSearching for the OxLouis SimpsonAmazonThe GatesMuriel RukeyserAmazonThe Mind-ReaderRichard WilburAmazonThe Names of the LostPhilip LevineAmazon

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerDay by DayRobert LowellThe last book published before the poet's death, Day by Day was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award prize for poetry in 1977 and cements Lowell's reputation as one of the great poetic voices of the century....Amazon1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistHouseboat DaysJohn AshberyAmazonLucky LifeGerald SternAmazonOut-of-the-Body TravelStanley PlumlyAmazonThe Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in ProgressW.D. SnodgrassAmazon

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry Winnered., Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. SissmanPeter Davison...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistNew & Selected Things Taking PlaceMay SwensonAmazonSpectral Emanations: New and Selected PoemsJohn HollanderAmazonThe Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977Adrienne RichAmazonThe Late HourMark StrandAmazon

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerAshes and 7 Years from SomewherePhilip Levine...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBlue Wine and Other PoemsJohn HollanderAmazonGoshawk, AntelopeDavid SmithAmazonNotes From the CastleHoward MossAmazonThe Venetian VespersAnthony HechtAmazon

1980 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSunriseFrederick Seidel...Amazon1980 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Part of SpeechJoseph BrodskyAmazonBeing Here: Poetry, 1977-1980Robert Penn WarrenAmazonScripts for the PageantJames MerrillAmazonThe Morning of the PoemJames SchuylerAmazon

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerA Coast of TreesA.R. AmmonsThis collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981....Amazon1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBrotherly LoveDaniel HoffmanAmazonThe RevisionistDouglas CraseAmazonThe SleepwalkersEdward HirschAmazonWhat Manner of BeastDonald FinkelAmazon

1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerAntarctic TravelerKatha PollittPoems explore a diversity of subjects including ballet, Japanese paintings, and a satirical view of vegetables...Amazon1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistFinding the IslandsW.S. MerwinAmazonHundreds of FirefliesBrad LeithauserAmazonMonolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982Jack GilbertAmazonVisiting RitesPhyllis JanowitzAmazon