US National Book Award 2024 Longlists: Poetry


The 75th National Book Awards’ longlist in poetry is drawn from an initial pool of 299 books submitted by publishers for consideration.

By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson

See also:
US National Book Award 2024 Longlists: Fiction
US National Book Award 2024 Longlists: Nonfiction
US National Book Award 2024 Longlists: Young People’s Books
US National Book Award 2024 Longlists: Translated Literature

The Fifth of Five Categories’ 2024 Longlists

A final longlist from the National Book Foundation of the total five longlists (50 titles) is here today, September 27. This is the fifth of the five longlists for this year’s competition.

The shortlists for all five categories of the 75th National Book Awards are to be released on Tuesday (October 1). The formal ceremony and fundraiser for the foundation is scheduled for November 20 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

Nine of the 10 poets on this longlist are first-time National Book Award honorees. The only poet previously honored is Rowan Ricardo Phillips, who was longlisted in 2015 for his poetry collection Heaven. 

In terms of the number of submissions made by publishers for this category, it is quite close to last year’s number: In 2023, there were 295 books put forward for consideration in this category, compared to this year’s 299.

Jurors for the 2024 poetry list this year are Richard Blanco (chair), Carolyn Forché, Tyehimba Jess, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Rena Priest.

The 2024 Poetry Longlist

As always, the jury’s decisions are made independently of the National Book Foundation staff and board of directors and deliberations are strictly confidential.

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Porter Anderson

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Porter Anderson has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London’s The Bookseller. Anderson was for more than a decade a senior producer and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN USA. As an arts critic (Fellow, National Critics Institute), he was with The Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Tampa Tribune, now the Tampa Bay Times. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman.



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