National Book Award Finalists Announced October 10, 2012: Congratulations to the fantastic poets in the running for this year's National Book Award! The finalists for the 2012 Award for Poetry are: —Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry —Heavenly Bodies by Cynthia Huntington —Fast Animal by Tim Seibles —Night of the Republic by Alan Shapiro —Meme by Susan Wheeler [...] by Harriet Staff