Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry

The Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a lesbian-themed book of poetry by a female 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 Lesbian Poetry and Gay 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.

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
Awarded forLiterary award
Sponsored byLambda Literary Foundation
DateAnnual
Websitehttp://www.lambdaliterary.org 

Winners and nominees
Year Winner Nominated
1988 No award presented
1989
1990 Marilyn Hacker, Going Back to the River
  • S. Diane Bogus, Chant of the Women of Magdalena
  • Minnie Bruce Pratt, Crime Against Nature
  • Irena Klepfisz, A Few Words in the Mother Tongue
  • Yvonne Zipter, Patience of Metal
1991 Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
1992 Audre Lorde, Undersong
  • Terry Wolverton, Black Slip
  • Lori Anderson, Cultivating Excess
  • Nancy Boutilier, According to Her Contours
  • Diane Stein, Lady Sun, Lady Moon
1993 Audre Lorde, The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance
1994 Marilyn Hacker, Winter Numbers
1995 Adrienne Rich, Dark Fields of the Republic
1996 Robin Becker, All-American Girl
Maureen Seaton, Furious Cooking
  • Clare Coss, Arc of Love
  • Linda Smukler, Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash.
  • Jeredith Merrin, Shift
1997 Joan Larkin, Cold River
Eileen Myles, School of Fish
  • Pat Califia, Diesel Fuel
  • Emma Donoghue, Poems Between Women
  • Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry
1998 Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette
  • Pamela Sneed, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery
  • Beatrix Gates, In the Open
  • Letta Neely, Juba
  • Leslea Newman, The Little Butch Book
1999 Olga Broumas, Rave
2000 Elena Georgiou, Mercy Mercy Me
  • Robin Becker, The Horse Fair
  • Joy Harjo, A Map to the Next World
  • Nancy Boutilier, And on the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone
  • Leslea Newman, Signs of Love
2001 Adrienne Rich, Fox
2002 Ellen Bass, Mules of Love
  • C. C. Carter, Body Language
  • Eloise Klein Healy, Passing
  • Melanie Braverman, Red
  • Jenny Factor, Unraveling
2003 Minnie Bruce Pratt, The Dirt She Ate
2004 Beverly Burch, Sweet to Burn
2005 June Jordan, Directed by Desire: Collected Poems
2006 Sina Queyras, Lemon Hound
  • Robin Becker, Domain of Perfect Affection
  • Cheryl Clarke, Days of Good Looks
  • Juliet Patterson, The Truant Lover
  • Nathalie Stephens, Touch to Affliction
2007 No award presented
2008 Judy Grahn, love belongs to those who do the feeling
2009 Stacie Cassarino, Zero at the Bone
2010 Anna Swanson, The Nights Also
  • Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours
  • Elizabeth J. Colen, Money for Sunsets
  • Eleanor Lerman, The Sensual World Re-Emerges
  • Laurie MacFadyen, White Shirt
2011 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake
2012 Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog
  • Julia Bloch, Letters to Kelly Clarkson
  • Marty McConnell, wine for a shotgun
  • Eileen Myles, snowflake/different streets
  • Kathryn L. Pringle, fault tree
2013 Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall[1]
  • Ai, The Collected Poems of Ai
  • Tamiko Beyer, We Come Elemental
  • Sophie Cabot Black, The Exchange
  • R. Erica Doyle, Proxy
  • Eloise Klein Healy, A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings
  • Kamilah Aisha Moon, She Has a Name
  • Suzanne Parker, Viral
  • Veronica Reyes, Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives
  • Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Chord Box
2014 Valerie Wetlaufer, Mysterious Acts by My People[2]
2015 Dawn Lundy Martin, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life[3]
  • Melissa Buzzeo, The Devastation
  • Claudia Rodriguez, Everybody’s Bread
  • Sara Jane Stoner, Experience in the Medium of Destruction
  • Margot Douaihy, Girls Like You
  • Jessica Jacobs, Pelvis with Distance
  • J. P. Howard, Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories
  • Stephanie Gray, Shorthand and Electric Language Stars
2016 Francine J. Harris, play dead[4]
Pat Parker (ed. Julie R. Enszer), Complete Works of Pat Parker[4]
  • Stephanie Adams-Santos, Swarm Queen’s Crown
  • Etel Adnan, Night
  • Donika Kelly, Bestiary
  • Stacy Szymaszek, Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night’s Press Journal of Ugly Sites
  • Vi Khi Nao, The Old Philosopher
  • Arisa White, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
2017 Rosamond S. King, Rock | Salt | Stone[5]
2018 Nina Puro, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House
2019 t'ai freedom ford, & more black[6]
  • Etel Adnan, Time
  • Rocío Carlos, (the other house)
  • Franny Choi, Soft Science
  • Shira Erlichman, Odes to Lithium
  • Gala Mukomolova, Without Protection
  • Lee Ann Roripaugh, tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
  • Sharanpal Ruprai, Pressure Cooker Love Bomb

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. "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" Archived 2018-06-10 at the Wayback Machine. LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017.
  5. "Lambda Literary awardees include Carmen Maria Machado, John Rechy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor". Windy City Times, June 5, 2018.
  6. Vanderhoof, Erin (June 1, 2020). "Exclusive: The Winners of the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
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