Thom Gunn Award

The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry is an annual literary award presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of gay male poetry. First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of British poet Thom Gunn, the award's first winner, following his death in 2004.

Recipients

Award winners and finalists[1]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2001 Thom Gunn Boss Cupid Farrar, Straus and Giroux Winner
Carl Phillips Pastoral Graywolf Press Finalist
Griffin Hansbury Day for Night Painted Leaf Press Finalist
2002 Mark Doty Source HarperCollins Winner
Billeh Nickerson The Asthmatic Glassblower Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist
Justin Chin Harmless Medicine Manic D Press Finalist
2003 Greg Hewett Red Suburb Coffee House Press Winner
David Groff Theory of Devolution University of Illinois Press Finalist
Rafael Campo Landscape with Human Figure Duke University Press Finalist
2004 Brian Teare The Room Where I Was Born University of Wisconsin Press Winner
Patrick Donnelly The Change Ausable Press Finalist
Peter Pereira Saying the World Copper Canyon Press Finalist
2005 Carl Phillips The Rest of Love Farrar, Straus and Giroux Winner
D. A. Powell Cocktails Graywolf Press Finalist
Ron Mohring Survivable World Word Works Finalist
2006 Richard Siken Crush Yale University Press Winner [2]
Frank Bidart Star Dust Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
Peter Covino Cut Off the Ears of Winter New Issues Finalist
2007 Justin Chin Gutted Manic D Press Winner [3]
Greg Hewett The Eros Conspiracy Coffee House Press Finalist
Jim Elledge A History of My Tattoo Stonewall Finalist
2008 Daniel Hall Under Sleep University of Chicago Press Winner [4]
Steve Fellner Blind Date with Cafavy Marsh Hawk Press Winner [4]
Henri Cole Blackbird and Wolf Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
2009 Ely Shipley Boy with Flowers Barrow Street Press Winner [5]
Jericho Brown Please New Issues Finalist
Mark Doty Fire to Fire Harper/HarperCollins Finalist
2010 Ronaldo V. Wilson Poems of the Black Object Futurepoem Books Winner
Brent Goodman The Brother Swimming Beneath Me Black Lawrence Press Finalist
D. A. Powell Chronic Graywolf Press Finalist
2011 Michael Walsh The Dirt Riddles University of Arkansas Press Winner [6]
Eric Leigh Harm’s Way University of Arkansas Press Finalist
Paul Legault The Madeleine Poems Omnidawn Finalist
2012 Henri Cole Touch Farrar, Straus and Giroux Winner
Brad Richard Motion Studies The Word Works Finalist
Christopher Hennessy Love-in-Idleness Brooklyn Arts Press Finalist
Tim Dlugos A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos Nightboat Books Finalist
2013 Richard Blanco Looking for the Gulf Motel University of Pittsburgh Press Winner [7]
Aaron Smith Appetite University of Pittsburgh Press Finalist
Eduardo C. Corral Slow Lightning Yale University Press Finalist
Stephen S. Mills He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices Sibling Rivalry Press Finalist
2014 Charlie Bondhus All the Heat We Could Carry Main Street Rag Winner [8][9][10]
L. Lamar Wilson Sacrilegion Carolina Wren Press Finalist [11]
Michael Klein The Talking Day Sibling Rivalry Press Finalist [11]
Rigoberto González Unpeopled Eden Four Way Books Finalist [11]
2015 Jericho Brown The New Testament Copper Canyon Press Winner [12]
Pier Paolo Pasolini; edited and trans. by Stephen Sartarelli The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition University of Chicago Press Finalist
Roberto Montes I Don’t Know Do You Ampersand Books Finalist
Saeed Jones Prelude to Bruise Coffee House Press Finalist
2016 Rick Barot Chord Sarabande Books Winner [13]
Oliver Bendorf The Spectral Wilderness Kent State University Press Finalist
Rickey Laurentiis Boy with Thorn University of Pittsburgh Press Finalist
Ronaldo V. Wilson Farther Traveler Counterpath Press Finalist
2017 Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds Copper Canyon Press Winner [14][15]
Derrick Austin Trouble the Water BOA Editions Finalist
Phillip B. Williams Thief in the Interior Alice James Books Finalist
Sjohnna McCray Rapture Graywolf Press Finalist
2018 Chen Chen When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities BOA Editions Winner [16]
Charif Shanahan Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing Southern Illinois University Press Finalist
Danez Smith Don’t Call Us Dead Graywolf Press Finalist
Frank Bidart Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965–2016 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
2019 Hieu Minh Nguyen Not Here Coffee House Press Winner [17]
Blas Falconer Forgive the Body This Failure Four Way Books Finalist [18]
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Cenzontle BOA Editions Finalist [18]
Timothy Liu Luminous Debris: New and Selected Legerdemain, 1992–2017 Barrow Street Press Finalist [18]
2020 Sam Ross Company Four Way Books Winner [19][20]
Aaron Smith The Book of Daniel University of Pittsburgh Press Finalist [21]
Angelo Nestore; trans. by Lawrence Schimel Impure Acts Indolent Books Finalist [21]
Jan-Henry Gray Documents BOA Editions Finalist [21]
2021 Mark Bibbins 13th Balloon Copper Canyon Press Winner [22][23]
Danez Smith Homie Graywolf Press Finalist
Jameson Fitzpatrick Pricks in the Tapestry Birds, LLC Finalist
Tommye Blount Fantasia for the Man in Blue Four Way Books Finalist
2022 John Keene Punks: New & Selected Poems The Song Cave Winner [24]
Kevin Simmonds The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse Northwestern University Press Finalist
Miguel Murphy Shoreditch Barrow Street Press Finalist
Phillip B. Williams Mutiny Penguin Books Finalist
2023 Philip Clark and Michael Bronski (ed.) Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski Rebel Satori Press Winner [25][26]
Eric Tran Mouth, Sugar and Smoke Diode Editions Finalist
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué Madness Nightboat Books Finalist
Saeed Jones Alive at the End of the World Coffee House Press Finalist
2024 Charif Shanahan Trace Evidence Tin House Winner [27][28]
Sam Sax Pig Scribner Finalist [29]
Brian Teare Poem Bitten by a Man Nightboat Books Finalist [29]
Rigoberto González To the Boy Who Was Night Four Way Books Finalist [29]

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