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The National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, established in 1975,[1] is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".[2] Awards are presented annually to books published in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism.[3]

Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self-published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories".

The judges are the volunteer directors of the NBCC, who are 24 members serving rotating three-year terms, with eight elected annually by the voting members, namely "professional book review editors and book reviewers".[4] Winners of the awards are announced each year at the NBCC awards ceremony in conjunction with the yearly membership meeting, which takes place in March.

Recipients

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National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1975 John Ashbery Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror Winner [5]
1976 Elizabeth Bishop Geography III Winner [6]
1977 Robert Lowell Day by Day Winner [7]
1978 L. E. Sissman Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman Winner [8]
1979 Philip Levine Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere Winner
1980 Frederick Seidel Sunrise Winner [9]
1981 A.R. Ammons A Coast of Trees Winner
1982 Katha Pollitt Antarctic Traveler Winner [10]
1983 James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover Winner
1984 Sharon Olds The Dead and the Living Winner [11]
1985 Louise Glück The Triumph of Achilles Winner
1986 Edward Hirsch Wild Gratitude Winner [12]
1987 C.K. Williams Flesh and Blood Winner
1988 Donald Hall The One Day Winner [13]
1989 Rodney Jones Transparent Gestures Winner
1990 Amy Gerstler Bitter Angel Winner [14]
1991 Albert Goldbarth Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology Winner [15]
1992 Hayden Carruth Collected Shorter Poems 1946–1991 Winner
David Ferry Gilgamesh Finalist
Maxine Kumin Looking for Luck
Sharon Olds The Father
K.C. Williams A Dream of Mine
1993 Mark Doty My Alexandria Winner
Donald Hall The Museum of Clear Ideas Finalist
Linda Hogan The Book of Medicines
Audre Lorde The Marvelous Arithmetic of Distance
Jack Marshall Sesame
1994 Mark Rudman Rider Winner [16]
Dorianne Laux What We Carry Finalist
Marilyn Hacker Winter Numbers
Philip Levine The Simple Truth
Mary Jo Salter Sunday Skaters
1995 William Matthews Time and Money Winner
Lynda Hull The Only World Finalist
James Merrill A Scattering of Salts
Carl Phillips Cortege
Ellen Bryant Voigt Kyrie
1996 Robert Hass Sun Under Wood Winner [17]
Stephen Dunn Loosestrife Finalist
Martín Espada Imagine the Angels of Bread
Jane Shore Music Minus One
C.K. Williams The Vigil
1997 Charles Wright Black Zodiac Winner
Frank Bidart Desire Finalist
Brenda Hillman Loose Sugar
Mark Jarman Questions for Ecclesiastes
Sonya Sanchez Does Your House Have Lions?
1998 Marie Ponsot The Bird Catcher Winner [18]
Pamela White Hadas Self-Evidence Finalist
Thylias Moss Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler
Anne Carson The Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
Yusef Komunyakaa Thieves of Paradise
1999 Ruth Stone Ordinary Words Winner [19]
Rafael Campo Diva Finalist
Tory Dent HIV, Mon Amour
Rita Dove On the Bus With Rosa Parks
Susan Kingsolving Dailies & Rushes
2000 Judy Jordan Carolina Ghost Woods Winner [20]
Michael Collier The Ledge Finalist
Anne Carson Men in the Off Hours
Yusef Komunyakaa Talking Dirty to the Gods
Davis McCombs Ultima Thule
2001 Albert Goldbarth Saving Lives Winner [21]
Louise Gluck The Seven Ages Finalist
Bob Hicok Animal Soul
Jane Hirshfield Given Sugar, Given Salt
Czeslaw Milosz A Treatise on Poetry
2002 B.H. Fairchild Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest Winner [22]
Major Jackson Leaving Saturn Finalist [23]
Harryette Mullen Sleeping With the Dictionary
Sharon Olds The Unswept Room
Adam Zagajewski Without End: New and Selected Poems
2003 Susan Stewart Columbarium Winner [24]
Carolyn Forche Blue Hour Finalist [25]
Tony Hoagland What Narcissism Means to Me
Venus Khoury-Ghata She Says
Mary Szybist, tr. Marilyn Hacker Granted
2004 Adrienne Rich The School Among the Ruins Winner [26]
Brigit Pegeen Kelly The Orchard Finalist
D.A. Powell Cocktails
James Richardson Interglacial
Gary Snyder Danger on Peaks
2005 Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven Winner [27]
Simon Armitage The Shout Finalist [27]
Blas Manuel de Luna Bent to the Earth
Richard Siken Crush
Ron Slate The Incentive of the Maggot
2006 Troy Jollimore Tom Thomson in Purgatory Winner [28]
Daisy Fried My Brother is Getting Arrested Again Finalist
Miltos Sachtouris Poems (1945-1971)
Frederick Seidel Ooga-Booga
W.D. Snodgrass Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
2007 Mary Jo Bang Elegy Winner [29][30]
Matthea Harvey Modern Life Finalist [31]
Tadeusz Rózewicz New Poems
Michael O'Brien Sleeping and Waking
Tom Pickard The Ballad of Jamie Allan
2008 Juan Felipe Herrera Half the World in Light Winner (tie) [32]
August Kleinzahler Sleeping it Off in Rapid City
Brenda Shaughnessy Human Dark with Sugar Finalist [33]
Devin Johnston Sources
Pierre Martory with John Ashbery (trans.) The Landscapist
2009 Rae Armantrout Versed Winner [34]
Louise Glück A Village Life Finalist
Eleanor Ross Taylor Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008
D. A. Powell Chronic
Rachel Zucker Museum of Accidents
2010 C.D. Wright One With Others Winner [35][36]
Terrance Hayes Lighthead Finalist
Anne Carson Nox
Kay Ryan The Best of It
Kathleen Graber The Eternal City
2011 Laura Kasischke Space, In Chains Winner [37][38]
Forrest Gander Core Samples from the World Finalist [39]
Bruce Smith Devotions
Aracelis Girmay Kingdom Animalia
Yusef Komunyakaa The Chameleon Couch
2012 D. A. Powell Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys Winner [40]
David Ferry Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations Finalist [41]
Allan Peterson Fragile Acts
A. E. Stallings Olives
Lucia Perillo On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
2013 Frank Bidart Metaphysical Dog Winner [42][43]
Denise Duhamel Blowout Finalist [44]
Bob Hicok Elegy Owed
Carmen Gimenez Smith Milk and Filth
Lucie Brock-Broido Stay, Illusion
2014 Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric Winner [45][46]
Jake Adam York Abide Finalist
Christian Wiman Once in the West
Saeed Jones Prelude to Bruise
Willie Perdomo The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon
2015 Ross Gay Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude Winner [47]
Ada Limón Bright Dead Things Finalist [48]
Terrance Hayes How to Be Drawn
Sinéad Morrissey Parallax: And Selected Poems
Frank Stanford What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford
2016 Ishion Hutchinson House of Lords and Commons Winner [49][50]
Robert Pinsky At the Foundling Hospital Finalist [51]
Monica Youn Blackacre
Tyehimba Jess Olio
Bernadette Mayer Works and Days
2017 Layli Long Soldier Whereas Winner [52][53]
Ana Ristovic Directions for Use Finalist [54]
James Longenbach Earthling
Nuar Alsadir Fourth Person Singular
Frank Ormsby The Darkness of Snow
2018 Ada Limón The Carrying Winner
Terrance Hayes American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Finalist
Adam Zagajewski with Clare Cavanagh (trans.) Asymmetry
Erika Meitner Holy Moly Carry Me
Diane Seuss Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
2019 Morgan Parker Magical Negro Winner [55][56]
Ilya Kaminsky Deaf Republic Finalist
Brian Teare Doomstead Days
Mary Ruefle Dunce
Jericho Brown The Tradition
2020 Francine J. Harris Here Is the Sweet Hand Winner [57][58]
Danez Smith Homie Finalist [59]
Amaud Jamaul Johnson Imperial Liquor
Victoria Chang Obit
Chris Nealon The Shore
2021 Diane Seuss Frank: Sonnets Winner [60]
B.K. Fischer Ceive Finalist [61]
Rajiv Mohabir Cultish
Donika Kelly The Renunciations: Poems
Cheswayo Mphanza The Rinehart Frames
2022 Cynthia Cruz Hotel Oblivion Winner [62]
Paul Hlava Ceballos banana [ ] Finalist [63]
David Hernandez Hello I Must Be Going
Mosab Abu Toha Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
Bernadette Mayer Milkweed Smithereens
2023 Kim Hyesoon Phantom Pain Wings Winner [64]
Romeo Oriogun The Gathering of Bastards Finalist [65]
Robyn Schiff Information Desk
Charif Shanahan Trace Evidence
2024 Anne Carson Wrong Norma Winner [66][67]
Jennifer Chang An Authentic Life Finalist [68]
Oliver Baez Bendorf Consider the Rooster
Dawn Lundy Martin Instructions for the Lovers
Carl Phillips Scattered Snows, to the North

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References

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