Ever since its inception in 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry. The manuscripts are solicited through an annual competition where poets of national stature choose five books of poems and then published by prestigious publishers.
The winners are:
Organs of Little Importance by Adrienne Chung
Chosen by Solmaz Sharif for Penguin Books
Tender Headed by Olatunde Osinaike
Chosen by Camille Rankine for Akashic Books
Survival Strategies by Tennison S. Black
Chosen by Adrienne Su for University of Georgia Press
I Love Information by Courtney Bush
Chosen by Brian Teare for Milkweed Editions
Sweet Movie by Alisha Dietzman
Chosen by Victoria Chang for Beacon Press
FINALISTS:
Transsexual Voice Contusion by Stephen Ira
Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen
Autobiomythography by Ayokunle Falomo
The Science of Things We Can Believe by
Christen Kauffman
Mountain Amnesia by Gale Thompson
The Cicada by Amanda Dahill-Moore
Complexity of the Foreigner by Antony Fangary
Reasons for the Dark to Be Afraid by Daniel Ruiz
Before abandoning the portrait by Sara Lupita Olivares
Nature by Chaun Ballard
New Ways to Strip Wire by Michael VanCallbergh
Regalos by Elisa Garza
La Casa Roja by Alonso Llerena
Have You Been Long at Table by Leslie Sainz
The Long No Longer by Erin Marie Lynch
The Boat That Brought Sadness Into the World by Eva Skrande
Fox Woman get out! By India Gonzalez
The Star Cabins by Sara Wainscott
Beehive State by Christian Gullette
Afterlife by Michael Dhyne
Fallen Fruit by Despy Boutris
Long Season by Stephanie Horvath
Venom Lessons by Anne Champion
Dis-/appear by Benjamin Landry
Things Now Useless That Recall A Glorious Past by Angie Estes
Generic Husband by Rebecca Hazelton
The Book of Alice by Diamond Forde
After Every Pardon by Sylvia Chan
Heirs of the Body by Caitlin Roach
Re the Waves by Katherine Gibbel
Octobers by Sahar Muradi
What I Did Instead of Love by Barbara Orton
American Elision by Adam Day
You’re Called By The Same Sound by Alicia Wright
Wintering Ground by Colin Bailes
Relief Effort by Raphael Dagold
From Their Salts by Carol Ann Davis
Pocho Kids Build Spaceships, Too by Alan Chazaro
Contemporary Variations of the Flood Myth by Christopher Blackman
Studies for an Embrace by Corey Miller
En Caul by Rebekah Hewitt
Devil Music by Charlie Clark
Samsara at Quantum Zeno by Gabe Gomez
Customary Calculus for Chronicity by Theri Pickens
Little Mercy by Robin Walter
