Here's the 2023 longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry

The longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry came out today.

Out of almost 300 submissions, these ten remain under consideration.

Finalists for all categories — the other four being fiction, young people's literature, translated literature, and nonfiction — will be announced October 3, and the winners will be revealed November 15.

• How to Communicate by John Lee Clark

• The Diaspora Sonnets by Oliver de la Paz

• Vexations by Annelyse Gelman

• Promises of Gold by José Olivarez

• from unincorporated territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Perez

• West: A Translation by Paisley Rekdal

• Tripas by Brandon Som

• Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

• suddenly we by Evie Shockley

• From From by Monica Youn