A National Book Award finalist, Bidart's latest volume of poetry explores self-creation and showcases his fastidious sense of poetic craft as well as his faith in primal energies.
That he and his wife chose this hilly, horsy town of 20,000 over their three other "finalist" destinations speaks volumes about Panama's growing attraction to American retirees.
No Nature, consisting mostly of poems previously published in other volumes, was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award.
Her collection 'Psaltery and Serpentines', a Best Books Award finalist of USA Book News published in 2010 by Gival Press, is a volume of erotic poems.
The first two books in Mr. Caro's series also won the Book Critics Circle award, and the third volume was a finalist.
In the Teen Publications category, "March" will compete alongside Gene Luen Yang's "Boxers & Saints" (First Second), a National Book Award finalist that spins opposing tales of the Boxer Rebellion in a two-volume epic.
She is the author of one novel, The End of the Story, and several volumes of stories, including Varieties of Disturbance, a National Book Award Finalist, and Can't and Won't, a New York Times bestseller.
Mr. Plumly won many honors for his poetry, and his 2007 volume, "Old Heart: Poems," was a finalist for a National Book Award.
Her next volume, "Mercurochrome" (2001), was a finalist for the National Book Award, whose judges said, "Coleman's poetry stings, stains and ultimately helps heal wounds" of racial injustice and gender inequality.
His book "Chronicles: Volume One" (Simon & Schuster) was named a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award on Saturday, along with 24 other books in five categories.
He published eight books of poetry, including "Hazmat" (a 2003 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), three books of criticism, and 18 edited volumes.
