National Book Awards - Poetry

2009

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy Winner

Keith Waldrop (University of California Press)

Versed

Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press)

Or to Begin Again

Ann Lauterbach (Penguin Books)

Speak low

Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Open Interval

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon (University of Pittsburgh Press)

2008

• Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems Mark Doty (HarperCollins) Winner
• Watching the Spring Festival Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Creatures of a Day Reginald Gibbons (Louisiana State University Press)
• Without Saying Richard Howard (Turtle Point Press)
• Blood Dazzler Patricia Smith (Coffee House Press)

2007

• Time and Materials Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)
• Magnetic North Linda Gregerson (Houghton Mifflin Company)
• The House on Boulevard St. David Kirby (Louisiana State University Press)
• Old Heart Stanley Plumly (W.W. Norton)
• Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 Ellen Bryant Voigt, (Norton)