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The Award-Winning Poetry Books of 2024

Discover the exceptional literary achievements of 2024 through this running list of poetry books honored with the most prestigious awards this year.

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Book Cover for: Something about Living: National Book Award Winner, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

Something about Living: National Book Award Winner

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

"Tuffaha's most recent collection is essential reading. Something About Living should be in every classroom, every library. This is a rallying cry at its most lyrical, most poignant. I can't say it enough: you need to read this book." – The Poetry Question

Paperback, 2024

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Phantom Pain Wings, Kim Hyesoon
National Book Critics Circle Awards Poetry Winner

Phantom Pain Wings

Kim Hyesoon

"Kim Hyesoon's poems create a seething, imaginative under- and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other." - Sean O'Brien, The Independent

Alexander CheeAlina StefanescuAlexander Chee & Alina Stefanescu

Paperback, 2023

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Tripas: Poems, Brandon Som
Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry

Tripas: Poems

Brandon Som

"A collection that deeply engages with the complexities of the poet’s dual Mexican and Chinese heritage, highlighting the dignity of his family’s working lives, creating community rather than conflict." - The Pulitzer Prize committee

Stephanie Burt (also elsewhere)London Review of BooksStephanie Burt (also elsewhere) & London Review of Books

Paperback, 2023

$20.95$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bread and Circus, Airea D. Matthews
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry

Bread and Circus

Airea D. Matthews

"Like all crowning collections in an oeuvre, this book enacts, with tenderness and intelligence, an erudition that matches the capacious love of its ambitions." – Ocean Vuong, author

Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinScribnerChanda Prescod-Weinstein & Scribner

Hardcover, 2023

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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