Long list for poetry prize is released
The National Book Foundation has released the long list of nominees for the National Book Award for Poetry. They are:
Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series/University of Pittsburgh Press)
Amy Gerstler, Scattered at Sea (Penguin)
Marilyn Hacker, A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014 (W. W. Norton)
Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn (Penguin)
Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty (Knopf)
Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf)
Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions)
Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Knopf)
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Lawrence Raab, Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts (Tupelo Press)
The short list of final nominees will be released on Oct.14, with the awards ceremony on Nov. 18. The long lists of nominees in non-fiction and fiction will be released this week. The young literature long list was issued Monday.