The National Book Award names its 2017 long list for Poetry:

Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)

Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, Ltd.)

Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press)

Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Laura Kasischke, Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)

Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS (Graywolf Press)

Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press)

Sherod Santos, Square Inch Hours (W. W. Norton & Company)

Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Mai Der Vang, Afterland (Graywolf Press)