Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry

The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a gay-themed book of poetry by a male writer.

At the first two Lambda Literary Awards in 1989 and 1990, a single award for LGBT Poetry, irrespective of gender, was presented. Beginning with the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1991, the poetry award was split into two separate awards for Gay Poetry and Lesbian Poetry, which have been presented continuously since then except at the 20th Lambda Literary Awards in 2008, when a merged LGBTQ poetry award was again presented for that year only.

Winners and nominees

Year Winner Nominated
1988 No award presented
1989
1990 Blue ribbon Michael Lassell, Decade Dance
1991 Blue ribbon Assotto Saint, ed., The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets
1992 Blue ribbon Edward Field, Counting Myself Lucky
1993 Blue ribbon Michael Klein, 1990
Blue ribbon James Schuyler, Collected Poems
1994 Blue ribbon Thom Gunn, Collected Poems
1995 Blue ribbon Mark Doty, Atlantis
1996 Blue ribbon Rafael Campo, What the Body Told
1997 Blue ribbon Cyrus Cassells, Beautiful Signor
1998 Blue ribbon J. D. McClatchy, Ten Commandments
1999 Blue ribbon Mark Wunderlich, The Anchorage
Blue ribbon Richard Howard, Trappings
2000 Blue ribbon Carl Phillips, Pastoral
2001 Blue ribbon Mark Doty, Source
2002 Blue ribbon J. D. McClatchy, Hazmat
  • Krandall Kraus, The Christmas Poems
  • Rafael Campo, Landscape with Human Figure
  • Reginald Harris, Ten Tongues
  • David Groff, Theory of Devolution
2003 Blue ribbon Mark Bibbins, Sky Lounge
2004 Blue ribbon Luis Cernuda, Written in Water
2005 Blue ribbon Richard Siken, Crush
  • Mark Doty, School of the Arts
  • Timothy Lui, For Dust Thou Art
  • Martin Pousson, Sugar
  • Aaron Smith, Blue on Blue Ground
2006 Blue ribbon Jim Elledge, A History of My Tattoo
  • Justin Chin, Gutted
  • Jeffrey Conway, The Album That Changed My Life
  • Rigoberto González, Other Fugitives & Other Strangers
  • Dwaine Rieves, When the Eye Forms
2007 No award presented
2008 Blue ribbon Mark Doty, Fire to Fire
Blue ribbon James Allen Hall, Now You're the Enemy
2009 Blue ribbon Benjamin S. Grossberg, Sweet Core Orchard
2010 Blue ribbon Brian Teare, Pleasure
  • Greg Hewett, darkacre
  • Michael Klein, then, we were still living
  • James Schuyler, Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems
  • James L. White, The Salt Ecstasies
2011 Blue ribbon Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos
2012 Blue ribbon Stephen S. Mills, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices
2013 Blue ribbon Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden[1]
2014 Blue ribbon Danez Smith, [insert] boy[2]
2015 Blue ribbon Nicholas Wong, Crevasse[3]
Blue ribbon Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance[3]
  • Roberto F. Santiago, Angel Park
  • Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn
  • Francisco X. Alarcón, Canto Hondo/Deep Song
  • Ben Ladouceur, Otter
  • Jee Leong Koh, Steep Tea
  • Ralph Hamilton, Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail
2016 Blue ribbon Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior[4]
  • Derrick Austin, Trouble the Water
  • Bryan Borland, DIG
  • Sjohnna McCray, Rapture
  • Rajiv Mohabir, The Taxidermist’s Cut
  • Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
  • Aaron Smith, Primer
  • C. Dale Young, The Halo
2017 Blue ribbon C. A. Conrad, While Standing in Line for Death[5]
  • Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead
  • Charif Shanahan, Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing
  • Tommy Pico, Nature Poem
  • Randall Mann, Proprietary
  • Cedar Sigo, Royals
  • Frederick Speers, So Far Afield
  • Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

References

  1. ↑ "Looking for summer reading? Lambda Literary Awards rain down a host of choices". Times-Picayune, June 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "The Lambda Literary Awards Honor Hilton Als and Eileen Myles, Name Winners in 26 Categories". Slate, June 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced". LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Lambda Literary awardees include Carmen Maria Machado, John Rechy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor". Windy City Times, June 5, 2018.
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