2012 National Book Award Nominees

The full list can be found on the National Book Foundation's Web site. Here's the list of poetry nominees:

POETRY

David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
University of Chicago Press

Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies
Southern Illinois University Press

Tim Seibles, Fast Animal
Etruscan Press

Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Susan Wheeler, Meme
University of Iowa Press

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Special congrats to Tim Seibles, who teaches at ODU, my alma mater; and to David Ferry, a friend of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival.