All through this week the National Book Foundation is announcing the Longlists for the 2016 National Book Awards in Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, and Young People’s Literature. Today the long list for the National Book Award for Poetry was revealed. Five finalists will be chosen from this list in October, with the winner to be announced in November. See the Longlist for Young People’s Literature here. Tomorrow, the Longlist for Nonfiction will be announced.
The 2016 National Book Award for Poetry Longlist:
Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)
Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 (W.W. Norton & Company)
Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press)
Donald Hall, The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Jay Hopler, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)
Donika Kelly, Bestiary (Graywolf Press)
Jean Mead, World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books)
Solmaz Sharif, Look (Graywolf Press)
Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press)
Kevin Young, Blue Laws (Alfred A. Knopf)
The Barnes & Noble Review http://ift.tt/2c879xc
Sig Nordal 