Tonight! The National Book Awards

2013 Poetry Grad and Holden Scholar Tommye Blount is a nominee!

Finalists over the years have included faculty members Jamel Brinkley, Angela Flournoy, Lauren Groff, Alan Shapiro, Joan Silber, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and Mary Szybist, who won in 2013 for Incarnadine. Poetry alum Victoria Chang was on the longlist this year h for her collection Obit.