Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
Awarded forLiterary award
Sponsored byLambda Literary Foundation
DateAnnual

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.

Honorees

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1991 Michael Lassell Decade Dance Winner
Francisco X. Alarcón Body in Flames Finalist
Mark Ameen Buried Body
Kenny Fries Healing Notebooks
James Broughton Special Deliveries
1992 Assotto Saint (ed.) The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets Winner [1]
Mark Doty Bethlehem in Broad Daylight Finalist [1]
David Trinidad Hand Over Heart
Perry Brass Sex-Charge
John Ash The Burnt Pages
1993 Edward Field Counting Myself Lucky Winner [2]
Essex Hemphill Ceremonies Finalist [2]
Rudy Kikel Long Division
Tim Dlugos Strong Place
Thom Gunn The Man with Night Sweats
1994 Michael Klein 1990 Winner (tie) [3]
James Schuyler Collected Poems
Mark Doty My Alexandria Finalist [3]
William Bory Orpheus in his Underwear
Carl Cook Tranquil Lake of Love
1995 Thom Gunn Collected Poems Winner [4]
Richard McCann Ghost Letters Finalist [4]
Rafael Campo The Other Man Was Me
Paul Monette West of Yesterday, East of Summer
Assotto Saint Wishing for Wings
1996 Mark Doty Atlantis Winner [5]
David Laurents Badboy Book of Erotic Verse Finalist [5]
Timothy Liu Burnt Offerings
Carl Phillips Cortege
James Merrill Scattering of Salts
1997 Rafael Campo What the Body Told Winner [6]
Kenny Fries Anesthesia Finalist [6]
Reginald Shepherd Angel, Interrupted
Michael Lassell Eros in Boystown
Jaime Manrique My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca
1998 Cyrus Cassells Beautiful Signor Winner [7]
Justin Chin Bite Hard Finalist [7]
Frank Bidart Desire
Tom Carey Desire: Poems 1986-1996
James Broughton (ed. Jim Cory) Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996
1999 J. D. McClatchy Ten Commandments Winner [8]
Michael Lassell A Flame for the Touch That Matters Finalist [8]
Edward Field A Frieze for a Temple of Love
Timothy Liu Say Goodnight
Mark Doty Sweet Machine
2000 Mark Wunderlich The Anchorage Winner (tie) [9]
Richard Howard Trappings
Rafael Campo Diva Finalist [9]
Marvin K. White Last Rights
G. Winston James Lyric
2001 Carl Phillips Pastoral Winner [10]
Thom Gunn Boss Cupid Finalist [10]
David Trinidad Plasticville
Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou The World in Us
Timothy Liu Word of Mouth
2002 Mark Doty Source Winner [11]
Constantine Cavafy with Theoharis C. Theoharis (trans.) Before Time Could Change Them Finalist [11]
Timothy Liu Hard Evidence
Justin Chin Harmless Medicine
J. D. McClatchy Love Speaks Its Name
2003 J. D. McClatchy Hazmat Winner [12]
Rafael Campo Landscape with Human Figure Finalist [12]
Reginald Harris Ten Tongues
Krandall Kraus The Christmas Poems
David Groff Theory of Devolution
2004 Mark Bibbins Sky Lounge Winner [13]
Henri Cole Middle Earth Finalist [13]
Reginald Shepherd Otherhood: Poems
Peter Pereira Saying the World
Rafael Campo The Healing Art
2005 Luis Cernuda Written in Water Winner [14]
D. A. Powell Cocktails Finalist [14]
Marvin K. White nothin’ ugly fly
Carl Phillips The Rest of Love
Mark Wunderlich Voluntary Servitude
2006 Richard Siken Crush Winner [15]
Aaron Smith Blue on Blue Ground Finalist [15]
Timothy Liu For Dust Thou Art
Mark Doty School of the Arts
Martin Pousson Sugar
2007 Jim Elledge A History of My Tattoo Winner [16]
Justin Chin Gutted Finalist [16]
Rigoberto González Other Fugitives & Other Strangers
Jeffrey Conway The Album That Changed My Life
Dwaine Rieves When the Eye Forms
2008 No award presented
2009 Mark Doty Fire to Fire Winner (tie) [17]
James Allen Hall Now You're the Enemy
Jack Spicer (Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, eds.) My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Finalist [17]
Jericho Brown Please
Rick Barot Want
2010 Benjamin S. Grossberg Sweet Core Orchard Winner [18]
Randall Mann Breakfast with Thom Gunn Finalist [18]
Brent Goodman The Brother Swimming Beneath Me
Charles Jensen The First Risk
Tom Healy What the Right Hand Knows
2011 Brian Teare Pleasure Winner [19][20]
Greg Hewett darkacre Finalist [21]
James Schuyler Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems
James L. White The Salt Ecstasies
Michael Klein then, we were still living
2012 Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.) A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos Winner [22]
David Trinidad Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems Finalist
Carl Phillips Double Shadow
Thomas Meyer Kintsugi
Paul Legault The Other Poems
2013 Stephen S. Mills He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices Winner [23]
Aaron Smith Appetite Finalist [23]
Richard Blanco Looking for the Gulf Motel
Patrick Donnelly Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin
Eduardo C. Corral Slow Lightning
2014 Rigoberto González Unpeopled Eden Winner [24][25]
Rafael Campo Alternative Medicine Finalist [24]
David Groff Clay
Brian Teare Companion Grasses
Frank Bidart Metaphysical Dog
Angelo Nikolopoulos Obscenely Yours
Carl Phillips Silverchest
Randall Mann Straight Razor
Michael D. Snediker The Apartment of Tragic Appliances
Michael Klein The Talking Day
2015 Danez Smith [insert] boy Winner [26][27][28][29]
David J. Daniels Clean Finalist [26]
Timothy Liu Don’t Go Back to Sleep
C. A. Conrad ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
Saeed Jones Prelude to Bruise
Jericho Brown The New Testament
Michael Broder This Life Now
Hieu Minh Nguyen This Way to the Sugar
2016 Nicholas Wong Crevasse Winner (tie) [30][31]
Carl Phillips Reconnaissance
Roberto F. Santiago Angel Park Finalist [32]
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
2017 Phillip B. Williams Thief in the Interior Winner [33][34]
Bryan Borland DIG Finalist [35]
Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Aaron Smith Primer
Sjohnna McCray Rapture
C. Dale Young The Halo
Rajiv Mohabir The Taxidermist’s Cut
Derrick Austin Trouble the Water
2018 C. A. Conrad While Standing in Line for Death Winner [36][37][38]
Danez Smith Don’t Call Us Dead Finalist [39]
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
2019 Justin Phillip Reed Indecency Winner [40][41]
Aldrin Valdez ESL or You Weren’t Here Finalist [42]
Kazim Ali Inquisition
Tommy Pico Junk
Hieu Minh Nguyen Not Here
Jonah Mixon-Webster Stereo(TYPE)
Brane Mozetič Unfinished Sketches of a Revolution (tr. Barbara Jursa)
Carl Phillips Wild Is the Wind
2020 Cyrée Jarelle Johnson Slingshot Winner [43][44][45]
Brian Teare Doomstead Days Finalist [46][47]
Jake Skeets Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué Losing Miami
Billy-Ray Belcourt NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
Lawrence Lacambra Ypil The Experiment of the Tropics
Douglas Crane The Revisionist & The Astropastorals
Jericho Brown The Tradition
2021 Eduardo C. Corral Guillotine Winner [48][49][50]
Tommye Blount Fantasia for the Man in Blue Finalist [51]
Romeo Oriogun Sacrament of Bodies
Ted Rees Thanksgiving: A Poem
Justin Phillip Reed The Malevolent Volume
2022 John Keene Punks: New & Selected Poems Winner [52]
Nicholas Wong Besiege Me Finalist [53]
Michael Walsh Creep Love
Miguel Murphy Shoreditch
Derrick Austin Tenderness
2023 Padraig Regan Some Integrity Winner [54]
Saeed Jones Alive at the End of the World Finalist [55]
Aldo Amparán Brother Sleep
Angelo Nikolopoulos Pleasure
Chris Tse Super Model Minority
2024 Charif Shanahan Trace Evidence Winner [56]
Paul Stephenson Hard Drive Finalist [57]
Richard Blanco Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems
Emanuel Xavier Love(ly) Child
Grant Chemidlin What We Lost in the Swamp

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