2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![The Carrying Ada Limón](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581035460-6763-image-3.jpg)
The Carrying
Ada Limón
2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Whereas Layli Long Soldier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580844966-58744-image-3.jpg)
Whereas
Layli Long Soldier
2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![House of Lords and Commons Ishion Hutchinson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581010162-4678-image-3.jpg)
House of Lords and Commons
Ishion Hutchinson
2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude Ross Gay](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581035267-6747-image-3.jpg)
Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580867122-340-image-3.jpg)
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Metaphysical Dog Frank Bidart](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580853399-59442-image-3.jpg)
Metaphysical Dog
Frank Bidart
2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys D. A. Powell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580944077-60476-image-3.jpg)
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
D. A. Powell
2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Space, in Chains Laura Kasischke](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580958224-1854-image-3.jpg)
Space, in Chains
Laura Kasischke
2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![One with Others: [a little book of her days] C. D. Wright’s](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580973964-3117-image-3.jpg)
One with Others: [a little book of her days]
C. D. Wright’s
2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Versed Rae Armantrout](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580845581-58795-image-3.jpg)
Versed
Rae Armantrout
2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Half the World in Light Juan Felipe Herrera](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581013212-4930-image-3.jpg)
Half the World in Light
Juan Felipe Herrera
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Elegy Mary Jo Bang](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581024068-5823-image-3.jpg)
Elegy
Mary Jo Bang
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Tom Thomson in Purgatory Troy Jollimore](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580952435-1376-image-3.jpg)
Tom Thomson in Purgatory
Troy Jollimore
2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Refusing Heaven Jack Gilbert](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580966699-2553-image-3.jpg)
Refusing Heaven
Jack Gilbert
2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 Adrienne Rich](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580963167-2262-image-3.jpg)
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Adrienne Rich
2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Columbarium Susan Stewart](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581032162-6491-image-3.jpg)
Columbarium
Susan Stewart
2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest B.H. Fairchild](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
B.H. Fairchild
2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Saving Lives Albert Goldbarth](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580963324-2275-image-3.jpg)
Saving Lives
Albert Goldbarth
2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Carolina Ghost Woods Judy Jordan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581035533-6769-image-3.jpg)
Carolina Ghost Woods
Judy Jordan
1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Ordinary Words Ruth Stone](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580973492-3078-image-3.jpg)
Ordinary Words
Ruth Stone
1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![The Bird Catcher Marie Ponsot](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581037457-6928-image-3.jpg)
The Bird Catcher
Marie Ponsot
1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Black Zodiac Charles Wright](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580870681-634-image-3.jpg)
Black Zodiac
Charles Wright
1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Sun Under Wood Robert Hass](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580847215-58930-image-3.jpg)
Sun Under Wood
Robert Hass
1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Time & Money William Matthews](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580952725-1400-image-3.jpg)
Time & Money
William Matthews
1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Rider Mark Rudman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580965669-2468-image-3.jpg)
Rider
Mark Rudman
1993 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![My Alexandria Mark Doty](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580852780-59391-image-3.jpg)
My Alexandria
Mark Doty
1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 Hayden Carruth](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581032453-6515-image-3.jpg)
Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
Hayden Carruth
1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology Albert Goldbarth](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581012183-4845-image-3.jpg)
Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
Albert Goldbarth
1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Bitter Angel Amy Gerstler](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580871117-670-image-3.jpg)
Bitter Angel
Amy Gerstler
1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Transparent Gestures Rodney Jones](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580951950-1336-image-3.jpg)
Transparent Gestures
Rodney Jones
1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![The One Day Donald Hall](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580851836-59313-image-3.jpg)
The One Day
Donald Hall
1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Flesh and Blood C.K. Williams](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580858911-59896-image-3.jpg)
Flesh and Blood
C.K. Williams
1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Wild Gratitude Edward Hirsch](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580939671-60112-image-3.jpg)
Wild Gratitude
Edward Hirsch
1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![The Triumph of Achilles Louise Glück](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580945760-60615-image-3.jpg)
The Triumph of Achilles
Louise Glück
1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![The Dead and the Living Sharon Olds](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581028550-6193-image-3.jpg)
The Dead and the Living
Sharon Olds
1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![The Changing Light at Sandover James Merrill](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Changing Light at Sandover
James Merrill
1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Antarctic Traveler Katha Pollitt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580874942-986-image-3.jpg)
Antarctic Traveler
Katha Pollitt
1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![A Coast of Trees A.R. Ammons](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580866880-320-image-3.jpg)
A Coast of Trees
A.R. Ammons
1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Sunrise Frederick Seidel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580955704-1646-image-3.jpg)
Sunrise
Frederick Seidel
1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Ashes and 7 Years from Somewhere Philip Levine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580844218-58682-image-3.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
ed., Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman
Peter Davison
1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Day by Day Robert Lowell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581028744-6209-image-3.jpg)
Day by Day
Robert Lowell
1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Geography III Elizabeth Bishop](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581016747-5222-image-3.jpg)
Geography III
Elizabeth Bishop
1975 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry
![Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror John Ashbery](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580849182-59093-image-3.jpg)