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.

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
Awarded for	Literary award
Sponsored by	Lambda Literary Foundation
Date	Annual

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	Michael Lassell, Decade Dance	Francisco X. Alarcón, Body in Flames Mark Ameen, Buried Body Kenny Fries, Healing Notebooks James Broughton, Special Deliveries
1991	Assotto Saint, ed., The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets	Mark Doty, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight John Ash, The Burnt Pages David Trinidad, Hand Over Heart Perry Brass, Sex-Charge
1992	Edward Field, Counting Myself Lucky	Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats Essex Hemphill, Ceremonies Tim Dlugos, Strong Place Rudy Kikel, Long Division
1993	Michael Klein, 1990 James Schuyler, Collected Poems	Mark Doty, My Alexandria William Bory, Orpheus in his Underwear Carl Cook, Tranquil Lake of Love
1994	Thom Gunn, Collected Poems	Rafael Campo, The Other Man Was Me Richard McCann, Ghost Letters Assotto Saint, Wishing for Wings Paul Monette, West of Yesterday, East of Summer
1995	Mark Doty, Atlantis	Carl Phillips, Cortege David Laurents, Badboy Book of Erotic Verse James Merrill, Scattering of Salts Timothy Liu, Burnt Offerings
1996	Rafael Campo, What the Body Told	Kenny Fries, Anesthesia Reginald Shepherd, Angel, Interrupted Michael Lassell, Eros in Boystown Jaime Manrique, My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca
1997	Cyrus Cassells, Beautiful Signor	Justin Chin, Bite Hard Frank Bidart, Desire James Broughton (ed. Jim Cory), Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 Tom Carey, Desire: Poems 1986-1996
1998	J. D. McClatchy, Ten Commandments	Michael Lassell, A Flame for the Touch That Matters Edward Field, A Frieze for a Temple of Love Timothy Liu, Say Goodnight Mark Doty, Sweet Machine
1999	Mark Wunderlich, The Anchorage Richard Howard, Trappings	Rafael Campo, Diva Marvin K. White, Last Rights G. Winston James, Lyric
2000	Carl Phillips, Pastoral	Thom Gunn, Boss Cupid Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou, The World in Us Timothy Liu, Word of Mouth David Trinidad, Plasticville
2001	Mark Doty, Source	Constantine Cavafy, Before Time Could Change Them Justin Chin, Harmless Medicine Timothy Liu, Hard Evidence J.D. McClatchy, Love Speaks Its Name
2002	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	Mark Bibbins, Sky Lounge	Henri Cole, Middle Earth Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood: Poems Peter Pereira, Saying the World Rafael Campo, The Healing Art
2004	Luis Cernuda, Written in Water	D. A. Powell, Cocktails Marvin K. White, nothin’ ugly fly Carl Phillips, The Rest of Love Mark Wunderlich, Voluntary Servitude
2005	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	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	Mark Doty, Fire to Fire James Allen Hall, Now You're the Enemy	Rick Barot, Want Jericho Brown, Please Jack Spicer (Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, eds.), My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
2009	Benjamin S. Grossberg, Sweet Core Orchard	Brent Goodman, The Brother Swimming Beneath Me Tom Healy, What the Right Hand Knows Charles Jensen, The First Risk Randall Mann, Breakfast with Thom Gunn
2010	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	Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos	Paul Legault, The Other Poems Thomas Meyer, Kintsugi Carl Phillips, Double Shadow David Trinidad, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems
2012	Stephen S. Mills, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices	Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning Patrick Donnelly, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin Aaron Smith, Appetite
2013	Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden[1]	Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog Rafael Campo, Alternative Medicine David Groff, Clay Michael Klein, The Talking Day Randall Mann, Straight Razor Angelo Nikolopoulos, Obscenely Yours Carl Phillips, Silverchest Michael D. Snediker, The Apartment of Tragic Appliances Brian Teare, Companion Grasses
2014	Danez Smith, [insert] boy[2]	David J. Daniels, Clean Timothy Liu, Don’t Go Back to Sleep C. A. Conrad, ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness Jericho Brown, The New Testament Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise Michael Broder, This Life Now Hieu Minh Nguyen, This Way to the Sugar
2015	Nicholas Wong, Crevasse[3] 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	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	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
2018	Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency[6]	Kazim Ali, Inquisition Jonah Mixon-Webster, Stereo(TYPE) Brane Mozetič, Unfinished Sketches of a Revolution (tr. Barbara Jursa) Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here Carl Phillips, Wild Is the Wind Tommy Pico, Junk Aldrin Valdez, ESL or You Weren’t Here
2019	Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Slingshot[7]	Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field Jericho Brown, The Tradition Douglas Crane, The Revisionist & The Astropastorals Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, The Experiment of the Tropics Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Losing Miami Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers Brian Teare, Doomstead Days

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. "Congratulations to the Winners of the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards!". Book Marks, June 4, 2019.
7. Vanderhoof, Erin (June 1, 2020). "Exclusive: The Winners of the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

External links

• Lambda Literary Awards