Yahoo Lifestyle National Book Critics Circle Awards Announces First-Ever Longlist for Poetry
The longlist is the sixth shared by the organization, in celebration of the NBCC’s 50th anniversary
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Selections from the NBCC Award Poetry longlistThe final National Book Critics Circle Awards genre longlist has arrived.
On Dec. 19, the organization announced their sixth award longlist, for the poetry genre. From Dec. 16 to Dec. 19, the NBCC shared the longlists for their coveted literary award for the first time, in honor of the organization's 50th anniversary.
The Poetry longlist includes:
An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang
Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen
Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf
A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye by V. Penelope Pelizzon
Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin
The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian
Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips
Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
Yard Show by Janice N. Harrington
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'Instructions for the Lovers' by Dawn Lundy MartinThe 2023 NBCC Award for Poetry went to Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi.
Related: National Book Critics Circle Awards Announces First-Ever Longlist for Fiction
The NBCC Award is the nation’s only literary award chosen entirely by book critics. Awards are presented annually for fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry and criticism.
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The organization “honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature,” per their mission statement.
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'Yard Show' by Janice N. Harrington“The NBCC is proud to release our longlists for the first time in our 50-year history,” said NBCC President Heather Scott Partington in the organization's initial Dec. 16 announcement. “Revealing them allows us to honor more writers, translators and books than we ever have in a single year. The best books of 2024 were narratives of resilience, interrogation and imagination. They asked us to question power, art and genre."
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The organization will also bestow the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize and the John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book in any genre.
Related: National Book Critics Circle Awards Announces First-Ever Longlist for Nonfiction
The 2024 NBCC Award finalists will be announced on Jan 23, 2025. Prizes will be awarded on March 20, 2025.
"At a time when the freedom to read is under attack, we’re thrilled to shout these authors’ names from the rooftops,” Partington continued. “We celebrate their fearlessness and artistic vision. These are vital words.”
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