National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry — Complete Winners List

16 years of winners · National Book Critics Circle · Since 1975 · ← Back to award page


2024	Wrong Norma	Anne Carson	New Directions
2023	Phantom Pain Wings	Kim Hyesoon	New Directions
2022	Hotel Oblivion	—	University of Pittsburgh Press
2021	Frank: Sonnets	Diane Seuss	Graywolf Press
2020	Here Is the Sweet Hand	—	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2019	Magical Negro: Poems	Morgan Parker	Tin House Books
2018	The Carrying	Ada Limón	Milkweed Editions
2017	Whereas	Layli Long Soldier	Graywolf Press
2016	House of Lords and Commons	—	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2015	Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude	Ross Gay	University of Pittsburgh Press
2014	Citizen: An American Lyric	Claudia Rankine	Graywolf Press
2013	Metaphysical Dog	Frank Bidart	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012	Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys	—	Copper Canyon Press
2011	Space, in Chains	—	Copper Canyon Press
2010	One With Others	—	Copper Canyon Press