Next up from the National Book Awards is the poetry longlist:
Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus)
Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions)
Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press)
Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems (Norton)
Laura Kasischke, Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas (Graywolf)
Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press)
Sherod Santos, Square Inch Hours (Norton)
Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems (Graywolf)
Mai Der Vang, Afterland (Graywolf)
