All week, the National Book Foundation is releasing its longlists for the 2017 awards via The New Yorker. Yesterday was Young People’s Literature and today, Poetry. Tomorrow we’ll see Nonfiction and on Friday Fiction.

The nominees so far:

Young People’s Literature:

Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of (Carolrhoda Lab / Lerner Publishing Group)

Robin Benway, Far from the Tree (HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers)

Samantha Mabry, All the Wind in the World (Algonquin Young Readers / Workman Publishing Company)

Mitali Perkins,You Bring the Distant Near (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers / Macmillan Publishers)

Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down (Atheneum / Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster)

Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

(Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)

Laurel Snyder, Orphan Island (Walden Pond Press / HarperCollins Publishers)

Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Publishers)

Rita Williams-Garcia, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground (Amistad / HarperCollins Publishers)

Ibi Zoboi, American Street (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Publishers)

Poetry:

Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)

Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, Ltd.)

Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press)

Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Laura Kasischke, Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)

Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS (Graywolf Press)

Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press)

Sherod Santos, Square Inch Hours (W. W. Norton & Company)

Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Mai Der Vang, Afterland (Graywolf Press)