National Book Critics Circle Award for PoetryCheck all the winners of National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. |
| Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 |
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Rae Armantrout | Versed |
| 2008 |
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Juan Felipe Herrera | Half of the World in Light |
| 2008 |
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August Kleinzahler | Sleeping It Off in Rapid City |
| 2007 |
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Mary Jo Bang | Elegy |
| 2006 |
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Troy Jollimore | Tom Thomson in Purgatory |
| 2005 |
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Jack Gilbert | Refusing Heaven |
| 2004 |
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Adrienne Rich | The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 |
| 2003 |
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Susan Stewart | Columbarium |
| 2002 |
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B. H. Fairchild | Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems |
| 2001 |
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Albert Goldbarth | Saving Lives |
| 2000 |
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Judy Jordan | Carolina Ghost Woods |
| 1999 |
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Ruth Stone | Ordinary Words |
| 1998 |
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Marie Ponsot | The Bird Catcher |
| 1997 |
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Charles Wright | Black Zodiac |
| 1996 |
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Robert Hass | Sun Under Wood |
| 1995 |
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William Matthews | Time & Money |
| 1994 |
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Mark Rudman | Rider |
| 1993 |
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Mark Doty | My Alexandria |
| 1992 |
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Hayden Carruth | Collected shorter poems, 1946-1991 |
| 1991 |
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Albert Goldbarth | Heaven and earth |
| 1990 |
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Amy Gerstler | Bitter angel |
| 1989 |
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Rodney Jones | Transparent gestures |
| 1988 |
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Donald Hall | One Day |
| 1987 |
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C. K. Williams | Flesh and Blood |
| 1986 |
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Edward Hirsch | Wild gratitude |
| 1985 |
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Louise Glück | The Triumph of Achilles |
| 1984 |
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Sharon Olds | The Dead and the Living |
| 1983 |
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James Merrill | The Changing Light at Sandover |
| 1982 |
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Katha Pollitt | Antarctic Traveller |
| 1981 |
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A. R. Ammons | A Coast of Trees |
| 1980 |
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Frederick Seidel | Sunrise |
| 1979 |
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Philip Levine | Ashes: Poems New and Old |
| 1978 |
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L. E. Sissman | Hello, Darkness |
| 1977 |
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Robert Lowell | Day by Day |
| 1976 |
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Elizabeth Bishop | Geography III |
| 1975 |
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John Ashbery | Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror |
