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. These separate awards have been presented continuously since then, with exception of 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 1991 Decade DanceWinner Body in FlamesFinalist Buried Body Healing Notebooks Special Deliveries1992 (ed.)The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black PoetsWinner Bethlehem in Broad DaylightFinalist Hand Over Heart Sex-ChargeThe Burnt Pages1993Counting Myself LuckyWinner CeremoniesFinalist Long Division Strong Place The Man with Night Sweats19941990Winner (tie) Collected Poems My AlexandriaFinalist Orpheus in his UnderwearTranquil Lake of Love1995 Collected PoemsWinner Ghost LettersFinalistThe Other Man Was Me West of Yesterday, East of Summer Wishing for Wings1996 AtlantisWinner Badboy Book of Erotic VerseFinalist Burnt Offerings Cortege Scattering of Salts1997What the Body ToldWinner AnesthesiaFinalist Angel, Interrupted Eros in Boystown My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca1998 Beautiful SignorWinner Bite HardFinalist DesireDesire: Poems 1986-1996 (ed. Jim Cory)Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-19961999 Ten CommandmentsWinner A Flame for the Touch That MattersFinalistA Frieze for a Temple of Love Say Goodnight Sweet Machine2000 The AnchorageWinner (tie) TrappingsDivaFinalist Last Rights Lyric2001 PastoralWinner Boss CupidFinalist Plasticville and Elena GeorgiouThe World in Us Word of Mouth2002 SourceWinner with Theoharis C. Theoharis (trans.) Before Time Could Change ThemFinalist Hard Evidence Harmless MedicineLove Speaks Its Name2003 HazmatWinnerLandscape with Human FigureFinalistTen Tongues The Christmas Poems Theory of Devolution2004 Sky LoungeWinner Middle EarthFinalist Otherhood: Poems Saying the WorldThe Healing Art2005 Written in WaterWinner CocktailsFinalist nothin' ugly fly The Rest of Love Voluntary Servitude2006 CrushWinnerBlue on Blue GroundFinalistFor Dust Thou Art School of the Arts Sugar2007 A History of My TattooWinner GuttedFinalist Other Fugitives & Other Strangers The Album That Changed My Life When the Eye Forms2008No award presented 2009 Fire to FireWinner (tie) Now You're the Enemy (Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, eds.)My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack SpicerFinalist Please Want2010 Sweet Core OrchardWinner Breakfast with Thom GunnFinalist The Brother Swimming Beneath MeThe First RiskWhat the Right Hand Knows2011PleasureWinnerdarkacreFinalistOther Flowers: Uncollected PoemsThe Salt Ecstasiesthen, we were still living2012 (David Trinidad, ed.)A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim DlugosWinnerDear Prudence: New and Selected PoemsFinalistDouble ShadowKintsugiThe Other Poems2013He Do the Gay Man in Different VoicesWinnerAppetiteFinalistLooking for the Gulf MotelNocturnes of the Brothel of RuinSlow Lightning2014Unpeopled EdenWinnerAlternative MedicineFinalistClayCompanion GrassesMetaphysical DogObscenely YoursSilverchestStraight RazorThe Apartment of Tragic AppliancesThe Talking Day2015[insert] boyWinnerCleanFinalistDon't Go Back to SleepECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future WildernessPrelude to BruiseThe New TestamentThis Life NowThis Way to the Sugar2016CrevasseWinner (tie)ReconnaissanceAngel ParkFinalistBoy with ThornCanto Hondo/Deep SongOtterSteep TeaTeaching a Man to Unstick His Tail2017Thief in the InteriorWinnerDIGFinalistNight Sky with Exit WoundsPrimerRaptureThe HaloThe Taxidermist's CutTrouble the Water2018While Standing in Line for DeathWinnerDon't Call Us DeadFinalistInto Each Room We Enter without KnowingNature PoemProprietaryRoyalsSo Far AfieldWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities2019IndecencyWinnerESL or You Weren't HereFinalistInquisitionJunkNot HereStereo(TYPE)Unfinished Sketches of a Revolution (tr. Barbara Jursa)Wild Is the Wind2020SlingshotWinnerDoomstead DaysFinalistEyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of FlowersLosing MiamiNDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the FieldThe Experiment of the TropicsThe Revisionist & The AstropastoralsThe Tradition2021GuillotineWinnerFantasia for the Man in BlueFinalistSacrament of BodiesThanksgiving: A PoemThe Malevolent Volume2022Punks: New & Selected PoemsWinnerBesiege MeFinalistCreep LoveShoreditchTenderness2023Some IntegrityWinnerAlive at the End of the WorldFinalistBrother SleepPleasureSuper Model Minority2024 Trace EvidenceWinner Hard Drive Finalist Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems Love(ly) Child What We Lost in the Swamp2025Saul HernandezHow to Kill a Goat and Other MonstersWinnerJoshua GarciaPentimentoFinalistBlas FalconerRara AvisCarl PhillipsScattered Snows to the NorthOkwudili NebeolisaTerminal Maladies2026It Was Never Supposed To BeWinnerBachelorFinalistboy maybe: poemsKitchen HymnsSeabeast
See also
Thom Gunn Award
References
External links
Lambda Literary Awards