The National Book Foundation continued unveiling the longlists for the National Book Award, starting with the Young People's Literature category on Tuesday and yesterday with poetry. This year's longlisted poetry titles are:
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart (FSG)
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen (BOA Editions)
The Book of Endings by Leslie Harrison (University of Akron Press)
Magdalene: Poems by Marie Howe (Norton)
Where Now: New and Selected Poems by Laura Kasischke (Copper Canyon Press)
WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press)
In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae (Wesleyan University Press)
Square Inch Hours by Sherod Santos (Norton)
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith (Graywolf Press)
Afterland by Mai Der Vang (Graywolf Press)
