An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang (Copper Canyon)
Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen (Tin House)
Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat)
A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye by V. Penelope Pelizzon (University of Pittsburgh)
Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat)
The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian (Tin House)
Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes (W. W. Norton)
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (New Directions)
Yard Show by Janice N. Harrington (BOA)