National Book Award for Poetry
The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers". The judging panel is made up of five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field". The category for Poetry was established in 1950 and has been awarded annually apart from the period 1984 to 1990.
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Poems
Alan Dugan · 1807 · 4 lists
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Collected Poems
Marianne Moore · 1963 · 3 lists
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Selected Poems
John Crowe Ransom · 1988 · 3 lists
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The Complete Poems
Elizabeth Bishop · 1981 · 3 lists
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Rivers and Mountains
John Ashbery · 1966 · 2 lists
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A Treatise on Stars
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge · 1850 · 1 list
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A Coast of Trees
A. R. Ammons · 1981 · 1 list
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A. R. Ammons
2 · 1980 · 1 list
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About the House
W. H. Auden · 1995 · 1 list
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American Journal
Robert Hayden · 2016 · 1 list
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Averno
Louise Gluck · 2006 · 1 list
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Before Sleep
Philip Booth · 2011 · 1 list
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Bury My Clothes
Roger Bonair-Agard · 2013 · 1 list
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay · 2015 · 1 list
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Collected Poems 1974 2004
Rita Dove · 1 list
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Collected Poems, 19171952
Archibald MacLeish · 1952 · 1 list
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Collected Poems, 19451990
Barbara Howes · 1993 · 1 list
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Collected Poems, 1951-1971
A. R. Ammons · 1972 · 1 list
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Collected Shorter Poems
Hayden Carruth · 1968 · 1 list
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Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
Adrienne Rich · 1973 · 1 list
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DMZ Colony
Don Mee Choi · 2020 · 1 list
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Early and Late Testament
Stanley Burnshaw · 1952 · 1 list
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Elegiac Feelings American
Gregory Corso · 1970 · 1 list
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Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems
W. H. Auden · 1972 · 1 list
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Faithful and Virtuous Night
Louise Gluck · 2014 · 1 list
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False Gods, Real Men
Daniel Berrigan · 1969 · 1 list
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feeld*
Jos Charles · 2018 · 1 list
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Floaters
Martin Espada · 1986 · 1 list
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For Love
Robert Creeley · 1695 · 1 list
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From Snow and Rock, from Chaos
Hayden Carruth · 1973 · 1 list
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from unincorporated territory
Craig Santos Perez · 2008 · 1 list
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Garbage
A. R. Ammons · 2003 · 1 list
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Golden Ax
Rio Cortez · 2022 · 1 list
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Head Off & Split: Poems
Nikky Finney · 2022 · 1 list
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His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
John Berryman · 1968 · 1 list
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Homage to Clio
W. H. Auden · 1960 · 1 list
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How to Communicate
John Lee Clark · 2022 · 1 list
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I Marry You
John Ciardi · 1971 · 1 list
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In the Mecca
Gwendolyn Brooks · 1968 · 1 list
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In the Next Galaxy
Ruth Stone · 2002 · 1 list
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Incarnadine
Mary Szybist · 2013 · 1 list
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Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed · 1994 · 1 list
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Leaping Clear and Other Poems
Irving Feldman · 1976 · 1 list
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Letters from a Father and Other Poems
Mona Van Duyn · 1982 · 1 list
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Life Studies
Robert Lowell · 2021 · 1 list
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Lighthead
Terrance Hayes · 2010 · 1 list
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Like Most Revelations
Richard Howard · 1994 · 1 list
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Look at This Blue
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke · 2022 · 1 list
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Madonna of the Cello
Robert Bagg · 1961 · 1 list
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Magnetic North
Linda Gregerson · 1904 · 1 list
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Meme
Susan Wheeler · 2017 · 1 list
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Metaphysical Dog
Frank Bidart · 2013 · 1 list
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Mirabell: Books of Number
James Merrill · 1978 · 1 list
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My Alexandria
Mark Doty · 1993 · 1 list
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New and Selected Poems
Mary Oliver · 1956 · 1 list
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Nights and Days
James Merrill · 1919 · 1 list
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Nones
W. H. Auden · 1939 · 1 list
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Paterson
William Carlos Williams · 1963 · 1 list
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Poems, North and South
Elizabeth Bishop · 1983 · 1 list
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Poems: A Selection
Leonie Adams · 1960 · 1 list
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Presentation Piece
Marilyn Hacker · 1974 · 1 list
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Punks: New & Selected Poems
John Keene · 2013 · 1 list
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Rogets Illusion
Linda Bierds · 2014 · 1 list
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Rooms are Never Finished
Agha Shahid Ali · 2001 · 1 list
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Scattered at Sea
Amy Gerstler · 2015 · 1 list
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Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
Hayden Carruth · 1953 · 1 list
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Second Childhood
Fanny Howe · 2018 · 1 list
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
John Ashbery · 1975 · 1 list
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Shoah Train
William Heyen · 2003 · 1 list
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Sight Lines
Arthur Sze · 1939 · 1 list
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Sleeping With the Dictionary
Harryette Mullen · 2002 · 1 list
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Sparrow
Carol Muske-Dukes · 1996 · 1 list
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Sphere: The Form of a Motion
A. R. Ammons · 1974 · 1 list
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Splay Anthem
Nathaniel Mackey · 2006 · 1 list
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Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See
Marvin Bell · 1977 · 1 list
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Tell Me
Kim Addonizio · 2016 · 1 list
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The Art of the Lathe
B. H. Fairchild · 1996 · 1 list
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The Auroras of Autumn
Wallace Stevens · 1950 · 1 list
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The Biology of Ultimate Concern
Theodosius Dobzhansky · 1967 · 1 list
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The Book of Endings
Leslie Harrison · 1971 · 1 list
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The Chameleon Couch
Yusef Komunyakaa · 2011 · 1 list
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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara · 1971 · 1 list
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The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov · 1977 · 1 list
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens · 1969 · 1 list
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The Diaspora Sonnets
Oliver de la Paz · 1 list
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The Enemy Joy
Ben Belitt · 1964 · 1 list
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The Eternal City
Kathleen Graber · 1901 · 1 list
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The Far Field
Theodore Roethke · 1964 · 1 list
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The Form of Loss
Egar Bowers · 1965 · 1 list
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The Galleons
Rick Barot · 2006 · 1 list
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The Light Around the Body
Robert Bly · 1968 · 1 list
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The Moving Target
W.S. Merwin · 1963 · 1 list
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The Never-Ending
Andrew Hudgins · 2019 · 1 list
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The Performance of Becoming Human
Daniel Borzutzky · 2016 · 1 list
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The Poems of Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz · 1979 · 1 list
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The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
Donald Hall · 2015 · 1 list
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The Shield of Achilles
W. H. Auden · 1955 · 1 list
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The Singing
C. K. Williams · 1969 · 1 list
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The Terrible Stories
Lucille Clifton · 1996 · 1 list
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The Tradition
Jericho Brown · 1825 · 1 list
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The Wild Fox of Yemen
Threa Almontaser · 2021 · 1 list
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Things of This World
Richard Wilbur · 1956 · 1 list
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Time without Number
Daniel Berrigan · 1969 · 1 list
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To See, To Take: Poems
Mona Van Duyn · 1 list
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Traveling Through the Dark
William Stafford · 1962 · 1 list
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Variations on Dawn and Dusk
Dan Beachy-Quick · 2019 · 1 list
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Versed
Rae Armantrout · 1885 · 1 list
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Vice: New and Selected Poems
Ai Ogawa · 1 list
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Vita Nova
Louise Gluck · 1999 · 1 list
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Voyage of the Sable Venus
Robin Coste Lewis · 2015 · 1 list
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Watching the Spring Festival
Frank Bidart · 2008 · 1 list
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What Noise Against the Cane
Desiree C. Bailey · 2021 · 1 list
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What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American
Richard Hugo · 1975 · 1 list
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What Work Is
Philip Levine · 1991 · 1 list
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Wobble
Rae Armantrout · 1980 · 1 list
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Worshipful Company of Fletchers
James Tate · 1994 · 1 list