National Book Awards - Poetry
2008
- Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems Mark Doty (HarperCollins) Winner
- Watching the Spring Festival Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Creatures of a Day Reginald Gibbons (Louisiana State University Press)
- Without Saying Richard Howard (Turtle Point Press)
- Blood Dazzler Patricia Smith (Coffee House Press)
2007
- Time and Materials Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) Winner
- Magnetic North Linda Gregerson (Houghton Mifflin Company)
- The House on Boulevard St. David Kirby (Louisiana State University Press)
- Old Heart Stanley Plumly (W.W. Norton)
- Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 Ellen Bryant Voigt (Norton)

