The National Book Awards announced their poetry longlist, naming Terrance Hayes, who won the prize for Lighthead in 2010, and former finalist Rae Armantrout. Also on the list is two-term US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey. The full list of candidates:
Rae Armantrout, Wobble (Wesleyan University Press)
Jos Charles, feeld (Milkweed Editions)
Forrest Gander, Be With (New Directions)
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Books)
J. Michael Martinez, Museum of the Americas (Penguin Books)
Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of (Omnidawn Publishing)
Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency (Coffee House Press)
Raquel Salas Rivera, lo terciario / the tertiary (Timeless, Infinite Light)
Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Jenny Xie, Eye Level (Graywolf Press)