National Book Critics Circle Award Poetry Winners and Finalists 2000-19

1.
Works & Days
Works & Days 4.06 avg rating β€” 109 ratings
2.
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
by: Ross Gay
4.24 avg rating β€” 6,131 ratings
3.
Blue Hour
Blue Hour 3.90 avg rating β€” 602 ratings
4.
The Carrying
The Carrying
by: Ada Limon
4.38 avg rating β€” 8,927 ratings
5.
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin 4.27 avg rating β€” 4,350 ratings
6.
Asymmetry: Poems
Asymmetry: Poems 4.15 avg rating β€” 315 ratings
7.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating β€” 50,757 ratings
8.
Abide (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Abide (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) 4.14 avg rating β€” 101 ratings
9.
Stay, Illusion: Poems
Stay, Illusion: Poems 4.05 avg rating β€” 559 ratings
10.
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys 4.01 avg rating β€” 392 ratings
11.
Kingdom Animalia
Kingdom Animalia 4.30 avg rating β€” 825 ratings
12.
Olives
Olives 4.27 avg rating β€” 284 ratings
13.
Nox
Nox 4.37 avg rating β€” 3,923 ratings
14.
The Eternal City: Poems
The Eternal City: Poems 4.21 avg rating β€” 168 ratings
15.
Chronic
Chronic 4.30 avg rating β€” 427 ratings
16.
Elegy
Elegy 4.01 avg rating β€” 564 ratings
17.
Crush
Crush 4.34 avg rating β€” 41,099 ratings
18.
The Orchard
The Orchard 4.29 avg rating β€” 375 ratings
19.
Cocktails
Cocktails 4.28 avg rating β€” 430 ratings
19.
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems 4.27 avg rating β€” 296 ratings
21.
Carolina Ghost Woods
Carolina Ghost Woods 4.15 avg rating β€” 178 ratings
22.
Men in the Off Hours
Men in the Off Hours 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,924 ratings
23.
Sleeping With the Dictionary
Sleeping With the Dictionary 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,577 ratings
24.
Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166)
Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum, 166) 4.32 avg rating β€” 241 ratings
25.
Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl 4.42 avg rating β€” 504 ratings
26.
Whereas
Whereas 4.38 avg rating β€” 4,227 ratings
27.
Fourth Person Singular
Fourth Person Singular 3.98 avg rating β€” 138 ratings
28.
Earthling: Poems
Earthling: Poems 3.64 avg rating β€” 76 ratings
29.
The Darkness of Snow
The Darkness of Snow 3.47 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
29.
Deaf Republic
Deaf Republic 4.39 avg rating β€” 9,324 ratings
31.
Directions for Use
Directions for Use 4.19 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
32.
House of Lords and Commons: Poems
House of Lords and Commons: Poems 3.77 avg rating β€” 340 ratings
32.
Magical Negro
Magical Negro 4.31 avg rating β€” 2,769 ratings
34.
Olio
Olio 4.55 avg rating β€” 1,080 ratings
35.
Dunce
Dunce 3.93 avg rating β€” 665 ratings
36.
At the Foundling Hospital: Poems
At the Foundling Hospital: Poems 3.45 avg rating β€” 123 ratings
37.
Blackacre: Poems
Blackacre: Poems 3.95 avg rating β€” 482 ratings
37.
Doomstead Days
Doomstead Days 4.18 avg rating β€” 150 ratings
39.
How to Be Drawn
How to Be Drawn 4.18 avg rating β€” 1,089 ratings
40.
Bright Dead Things
Bright Dead Things
by: Ada Limon
4.20 avg rating β€” 13,804 ratings
41.
Parallax: And Selected Poems
Parallax: And Selected Poems 4.02 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
42.
What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford
What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford 4.49 avg rating β€” 327 ratings
43.
Prelude to Bruise
Prelude to Bruise 4.25 avg rating β€” 2,678 ratings
44.
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems 4.13 avg rating β€” 108 ratings
45.
Once in the West: Poems
Once in the West: Poems 4.08 avg rating β€” 432 ratings
46.
Metaphysical Dog
Metaphysical Dog 3.97 avg rating β€” 741 ratings
47.
Blowout (Pitt Poetry Series)
Blowout (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.10 avg rating β€” 163 ratings
48.
Elegy Owed
Elegy Owed
by: Bob Hicok
4.21 avg rating β€” 322 ratings
49.
Milk and Filth (Camino del Sol)
Milk and Filth (Camino del Sol) 4.03 avg rating β€” 216 ratings
50.
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations 3.87 avg rating β€” 316 ratings
51.
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths 3.88 avg rating β€” 169 ratings
52.
Fragile Acts (McSweeney's Poetry Series)
Fragile Acts (McSweeney's Poetry Series) 3.65 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
53.
Space, in Chains
Space, in Chains 4.07 avg rating β€” 689 ratings
54.
Core Samples from the World
Core Samples from the World 4.05 avg rating β€” 132 ratings
55.
The Chameleon Couch
The Chameleon Couch 3.86 avg rating β€” 287 ratings
56.
Devotions
Devotions 3.90 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
57.
One with Others: [a little book of her days]
One with Others: [a little book of her days] 4.25 avg rating β€” 517 ratings
58.
Lighthead
Lighthead 4.12 avg rating β€” 2,131 ratings
59.
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
by: Kay Ryan
4.11 avg rating β€” 1,712 ratings
60.
Versed
Versed 3.82 avg rating β€” 729 ratings
61.
A Village Life
A Village Life 4.05 avg rating β€” 2,181 ratings
62.
Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008
Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008 4.37 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
63.
Museum of Accidents
Museum of Accidents 4.02 avg rating β€” 368 ratings
64.
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems 4.09 avg rating β€” 97 ratings
65.
Sleeping it Off in Rapid City
Sleeping it Off in Rapid City 3.92 avg rating β€” 203 ratings
66.
Sources
Sources 4.15 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
67.
The Landscapist: Selected Poems of Pierre Martory
The Landscapist: Selected Poems of Pierre Martory 4.25 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
68.
Human Dark with Sugar
Human Dark with Sugar 3.87 avg rating β€” 572 ratings
69.
Modern Life
Modern Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 776 ratings
70.
Sleeping and Waking
Sleeping and Waking 3.90 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
71.
Ballad of Jamie Allan
Ballad of Jamie Allan 4.09 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
72.
new poems
new poems 3.73 avg rating β€” 44 ratings
73.
Tom Thomson in Purgatory
Tom Thomson in Purgatory 3.01 avg rating β€” 90 ratings
74.
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (Pitt Poetry Series)
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (Pitt Poetry Series) 3.89 avg rating β€” 91 ratings
75.
Poems (1945-1971)
Poems (1945-1971) 4.45 avg rating β€” 100 ratings
76.
Ooga-Booga: Poems
Ooga-Booga: Poems 3.96 avg rating β€” 497 ratings
77.
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems 3.78 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
78.
Refusing Heaven: Poems
Refusing Heaven: Poems 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,696 ratings
79.
The Shout: Selected Poems
The Shout: Selected Poems 3.83 avg rating β€” 88 ratings
80.
Bent to the Earth
Bent to the Earth 4.36 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
81.
The Incentive Of The Maggot
The Incentive Of The Maggot
by: Ron Slate
3.48 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
82.
The School Among the Ruins
The School Among the Ruins 3.88 avg rating β€” 411 ratings
83.
Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms
Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms 4.30 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
84.
Danger on Peaks: Poems
Danger on Peaks: Poems 3.95 avg rating β€” 414 ratings
85.
Columbarium
Columbarium 3.93 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
86.
What Narcissism Means to Me
What Narcissism Means to Me 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,894 ratings
87.
She Says: Bilingual Edition
She Says: Bilingual Edition 4.02 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
88.
Granted
Granted 4.12 avg rating β€” 240 ratings
89.
Leaving Saturn: Poems
Leaving Saturn: Poems 4.03 avg rating β€” 151 ratings
90.
The Unswept Room
The Unswept Room 4.02 avg rating β€” 900 ratings
91.
Without End: New and Selected Poems
Without End: New and Selected Poems 4.36 avg rating β€” 539 ratings
92.
Saving Lives: Poems
Saving Lives: Poems 4.39 avg rating β€” 54 ratings
93.
The Seven Ages
The Seven Ages 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,559 ratings
94.
Animal Soul (Contemporary Classics Poetry Series)
Animal Soul (Contemporary Classics Poetry Series)
by: Bob Hicok
4.20 avg rating β€” 193 ratings
95.
Given Sugar, Given Salt
Given Sugar, Given Salt 4.22 avg rating β€” 783 ratings
96.
A Treatise on Poetry
A Treatise on Poetry 3.95 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
97.
The Ledge: Poems
The Ledge: Poems 3.62 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
98.
Talking Dirty to the Gods
Talking Dirty to the Gods 3.90 avg rating β€” 373 ratings
99.
Ultima Thule
Ultima Thule 4.03 avg rating β€” 134 ratings
100.
The Tradition
The Tradition 4.23 avg rating β€” 10,007 ratings