Poetry News

National Book Critics Circle Award finalists

Originally Published: January 24, 2011

Are you sad your pick of the finalists to win the National Book Award didn't pick up the top honor? Well, three of them have another shot! Here are your National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for 2010 in poetry:

Anne Carson. Nox. New Directions


Kathleen Graber. The Eternal City. Princeton University Press 


Terrance Hayes. Lighthead. Penguin Poets


Kay Ryan. The Best of It. Grove

C.D. Wright. One with Others: [a little book of her days]. Copper Canyon

Read more about the award and the finalists here.