National Book Award Archives

Three Poets Spreading the Power of Poetry (PHOTO GALLERY) (COVER STORY)

If you need a tonic to lift your spirits at this dismal time in our history, you should try poetry. It might even save…

December 7, 2017

BY PETER DORFMAN Adrian Matejka is profoundly grateful. It’s 2016, and he’s making a middle-class living as a poet. Matejka, 44, is the Indiana…

August 3, 2016

BY JULIE GRAY Poet and Indiana University creative writing professor Ross Gay learned that he had been nominated for the National Book Award in…

January 6, 2016