September 12, 2024, 10:00am
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 299 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Poetry are Richard Blanco (Chair), Carolyn Forché, Tyehimba Jess, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Rena Priest.
The finalists will be announced on Tuesday, October 1, and the winners in all categories will be revealed at the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 20, 2024.
Here’s the 2024 Poetry longlist:
Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
New Directions Publishing
Fady Joudah, […]
Milkweed Editions
Dorianne Laux, Life on Earth
Norton / W. W. Norton & Company
Gregory Pardlo, Spectral Evidence
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Silver
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
Octavio Quintanilla, The Book of Wounded Sparrows
Texas Review Press
m.s. RedCherries, mother
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House
Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry
Graywolf Press
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Something About Living
University of Akron Press
Elizabeth Willis, Liontaming in America
New Directions Publishing
