Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Poetry 2017

Winner

• Half-Light

  Collected Poems 1965-2016
  Frank Bidart

Finalists

• The Book of Endings
  Leslie Harrison
• In the Language of My Captor
  Shane McCrae
• Don’t Call Us Dead
  Danez Smith
• WHEREAS
  Layli Long Soldier

Longlist

• When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
  Chen Chen
• Afterland
  Mai Der Vang
• Magdalene
  Marie Howe
• Where Now

  New and Selected Poems
  Laura Kasischke
• Square Inch Hours
  Sherod Santos