Talk:National Book Award for Poetry

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This list is split from National Book Award in a sense. That article history, discussion (Talk:National Book Award#children), and discussion edit history may be relevant here.

Expanded info

Someone in 2007 added expanded info. I've moved it here. Unclear if we are maintaining it at that level, strange to have it for only one year. If you want to add it back please do so for multiple years, the NBA website has the info for 2000 onward. 71.191.40.106 (talk) 15:34, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

==Winner and finalists for 2007==

Winner:

Robert Hass	Time and Materials	(Ecco/HarperCollins)
Other finalists:
Linda Gregerson	Magnetic North	(Houghton Mifflin Company)
David Kirby	The House on Boulevard St.	(Louisiana State University Press)
Stanley Plumly	Old Heart	(W. W. Norton & Company)
Ellen Bryant Voigt	Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006	(W. W. Norton & Company)

Judges: Charles Simic (chair), Linda Bierds, David St. John, Vijay Seshadri and Natasha Trethewey.

Forty months later, by reference to the companion articles for other current award categories (Category:National Book Award), it is fair to say that the established scope is {Winners, Finalists} (not Judges) and {Author, Title} (not Publisher). By that standard, what this article lacks is Finalists {Author, Title}.

In the last two days I have added Nonfiction winners and finalists 2006 to 1985, and completed them --confirming or improving all Author and Title links, retaining redlinks for Authors only.

That matches my winter work for Young People's Literature (Children's), except in retaining redlinks for all Authors at Nonfiction (following a previous editor, iirc) rather than winning Authors only at Children's (my choice, iirc).

The Fiction listings were pasted by previous editors, with redlinks for all Authors and all Titles. I have only fixed a few oversights, added references, and completed the links (confirm or improve) for winning Authors only. Finalist authors and all titles will benefit from careful attention to the links.

Here at Poetry, i think i have completed all links (winning Authors and Titles) for the 1950s and 1960s alone. I don't plan to do more, nor to add Finalist data.

--P64 (talk) 00:54, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

data listed?	Personal Name	Book Title	Book Publisher
award Winners	yes	yes²	no
other Finalists	yes¹	yes²	no
award Judges	no	—	—

yes The other three lists —National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Nonfiction, and Fiction— all retain redlinks for winning authors, so that may be called standard (although List of winners of the National Book Award does not retain any redlinks). It implies that National Book Award-winning authors should have biographies here and most do have them. It appears that all Poetry award winners do have them.

¹ The Nonfiction and Fiction lists retain redlinks for losing finalist authors.

--this list does not yet include any author without a biography

² The Fiction list retains redlinks for all titles.

--P64 (talk) 15:27, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As I have completed other work for the Poetry award winners (the current scope of this list), I have eliminated redlinks for book titles. --P64 (talk) 23:17, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done

(See also my report just above.) For the 1950s and 1960s plus a few others including all bluelink titles, this is what I have done — and do not plan to do for 1970 to date.

in this list, check every link; that is, confirm or improve every author and title so that bluelinks and redlinks are accurate.
in the linked biographies of award-winning authors,

provide coverage of the National Book Award for Poetry with ref NBF in this form (from Wallace Stevens who won twice):

^ "National Book Awards – 1951". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-02.

(With acceptance speech by Stevens and essay by Katie Peterson from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

^ "National Book Awards – 1955". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-02.

(With acceptance speech by Stevens and linked essay by Neil Baldwin from the Awards 50-year celebration series.)

add Category:National Book Award winners

in the linked articles on award-winning books (not many in this list),

provide coverage of the National Book Award for Poetry with ref NBF in this form, essentially the same (from What Work Is by Philip Levine who also won twice):

^ "National Book Awards – 1991". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-25.

(With essay by John Murillo from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog. Levine won the Poetry award in 1980 and 1991.)

add Category:National Book Award for Poetry winning works

For the National Book Awards in other categories, and their entire timespans, I have done all this and more.

complete the list of Winners and Finalists

(This list alone of the four uses a wikitable so its code is entirely different and its look is different.) --P64 (talk) 15:27, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done. All of the Poetry awards are now covered in the biographies of award-winning poets, with standard references to the official website. All the biographies (poets) are in Category:National Book Award winners, as all the articles on award-winning books are in Category:National Book Award for Poetry winning works.

I do not plan to work on losing finalists, as I have done for the other award categories. --P64 (talk) 23:17, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong link

The link for the name "Leslie Harrison" goes to the wrong Leslie Harrison. I am not sure how to fix it though. Jim0101 (talk) 16:17, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]