Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Poetry 2025

Winner

• The Intentions of Thunder

  New and Selected Poems
  Patricia Smith

Finalists

• The New Economy
  Gabrielle Calvocoressi
• Becoming Ghost
  Cathy Linh Che
• Scorched Earth
  Tiana Clark
• I Do Know Some Things
  Richard Siken

Longlist

• Death Does Not End at the Sea
  Gbenga Adesina
• Death of the First Idea
  Rickey Laurentiis
• Cold Thief Place
  Esther Lin
• Stay Dead
  Natalie Shapero
• TERROR COUNTER
  Fargo Nissim Tbakhi