2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The Carrying
Ada Limón
2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Whereas
Layli Long Soldier
2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
House of Lords and Commons
Ishion Hutchinson
2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Metaphysical Dog
Frank Bidart
2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
D. A. Powell
2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Space, in Chains
Laura Kasischke
2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
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One with Others: [a little book of her days]
C. D. Wright’s
2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Versed
Rae Armantrout
2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Half the World in Light
Juan Felipe Herrera
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Elegy
Mary Jo Bang
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Tom Thomson in Purgatory
Troy Jollimore
2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Refusing Heaven
Jack Gilbert
2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Adrienne Rich
2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Columbarium
Susan Stewart
2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
B.H. Fairchild
2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Saving Lives
Albert Goldbarth
2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Carolina Ghost Woods
Judy Jordan
1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Ordinary Words
Ruth Stone
1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The Bird Catcher
Marie Ponsot
1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Black Zodiac
Charles Wright
1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Sun Under Wood
Robert Hass
1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Time & Money
William Matthews
1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Rider
Mark Rudman
1993 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
My Alexandria
Mark Doty
1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
Hayden Carruth
1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
Albert Goldbarth
1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Bitter Angel
Amy Gerstler
1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Transparent Gestures
Rodney Jones
1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The One Day
Donald Hall
1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Flesh and Blood
C.K. Williams
1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Wild Gratitude
Edward Hirsch
1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The Triumph of Achilles
Louise Glück
1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The Dead and the Living
Sharon Olds
1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
The Changing Light at Sandover
James Merrill
1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Antarctic Traveler
Katha Pollitt
1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
A Coast of Trees
A.R. Ammons
1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Sunrise
Frederick Seidel
1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Ashes and 7 Years from Somewhere
Philip Levine
1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
ed., Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman
Peter Davison
1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Day by Day
Robert Lowell
1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
Geography III
Elizabeth Bishop
1975 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
