This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for the 2018 National Book Awards. Among this year’s contenders for the National Book Award for Poetry are three Civitellians:
Terrance Hayes (CRF 2015), “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin”
Future Director’s Guest Natasha Trethewey, “Monument: Poems New and Selected”
Jenny Xie (CRF 2018), “Eye Level”
See the full list below.
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 / Penguin Random House
J. Michael Martinez, “Museum of the Americas”
Penguin Books / Penguin Random House
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