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.
Recipients +Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry winners and finalists Year Author Title Result 1991Going Back to the RiverWinner A Few Words in the Mother TongueFinalist Chant of the Women of Magdalena Crime Against Nature Patience of Metal1992An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991Winner Artemis in Echo ParkFinalist Fear of Subways Not Me The Forbidden Poems1993UndersongWinner According to Her ContoursFinalist Black SlipCultivating Excess Lady Sun, Lady Moon1994The Marvelous Arithmetics of DistanceWinner Collected Poems (1930–1993)Finalist Experimental Love Poetry The Black Back-Ups The Last Generation1995Winter NumbersWinnerAmerican DreamsFinalist Haruko/Love Poems Normal Sex White Pine1996Dark Fields of the RepublicWinner Fire PowerFinalist Key to Everything Maxfield Parrish Oral Tradition1997All-American GirlWinnerFurious Cooking Arc of LoveFinalist Home in Three Days. Don't Wash. Shift1998Cold RiverWinnerSchool of Fish Diesel FuelFinalist Poems Between Women Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry1999Marianne Faithfull's CigaretteWinner Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than SlaveryFinalist In the Open Juba The Little Butch Book2000RaveWinner Interior With Sudden JoyFinalist Midnight Salvage Monkeypuzzle Walking Back Up Depot Street2001Mercy Mercy MeWinner A Map to the Next WorldFinalist And on the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone Signs of Love The Horse Fair2002FoxWinner HereFinalist Mr. Bluebird Skies Why Things Burn2003Mules of LoveWinner Body LanguageFinalist Passing Red Unraveling2004The Dirt She AteWinner EmbersFinalist Final Girl Swirl The Beautiful2005Sweet to BurnWinner Antidotes for an AlibiFinalist Femme's Dictionary The School Among the Ruins Why I Wake Early2006Directed by Desire: Collected PoemsWinner Eye of WaterFinalist Life Mask New and Selected Poems, Volume II Where the Apple Falls2007Lemon HoundWinner Days of Good LooksFinalist Domain of Perfect Affection The Truant Lover Touch to Affliction2008No award presented2009love belongs to those who do the feelingWinner Interpretive WorkFinalist Kissing Dead Girls Same Life Two Minutes of Light2010Zero at the BoneWinner Bird Eating BirdFinalist Gospel: Poems Names Stars of the Night Commute2011The Nights AlsoWinner Money for SunsetsFinalist The Inquisition Yours The Sensual World Re-Emerges White Shirt2012Love CakeWinner 15 Ways to Stay AliveFinalist Discipline (ed.)Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry The Stranger Dissolves2013Sea and FogWinner fault treeFinalist Letters to Kelly Clarkson snowflake/different streets wine for a shotgun2014Rise in the FallWinner A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & RecordingsFinalist Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives Chord Box Proxy She Has a NameThe Collected Poems of Ai The Exchange Viral We Come Elemental2015Mysterious Acts by My PeopleWinner Haiti GlassFinalist Janey's Arcadia Last Psalm at Sea Level Like a Beggar MxT Only Ride Termination Dust2016Life in a Box is a Pretty LifeWinner Everybody's BreadFinalist Experience in the Medium of Destruction Girls Like YouPelvis with Distance Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories Shorthand and Electric Language Stars The Devastation2017 (Julie R. Enszer, ed.)Complete Works of Pat ParkerWinner play dead BestiaryFinalist Night Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night's Press Journal of Ugly Sites Swarm Queen's Crown The Old Philosopher You're the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened2018 Rock | Salt | StoneWinner Blind Girl GruntFinalist Common Place Good Stock Strange Blood Kohnjehr Woman My Ariel Rummage Silk Poems2019Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a HouseWinner Body WorkFinalist Evolution Gaze Back Obits. Past Lives Surge Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions2020& more blackWinner (the other house)Finalist Odes to Lithium Pressure Cooker Love Bomb Soft Science Time tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 Without Protection2021Funeral DivaWinner : once teeth bones coral :Finalist dayliGht Devil's Lake Flèche2022Last DaysWinnerAll the RageFinalistThe Language We Were Never Taught to Speak The Renunciations: PoemsWho's Your Daddy2023As She AppearsWinnerBeast at Every ThresholdFinalistConcentratePreludeYearn2024 TeeterWinner Ardor Finalist Because You Were Mine Couplets Dream of Xibalba2025Song of My SofteningWinnerAlt-NatureFinalistBorn BackwardsKossDancing Backwards Towards PluperfectInstructions for the LoversThe Velvet Book2026Pleasureis AmiracleWinnerGlove MoneyFinalistsavings time, translated by Samantha PiousCactus Flowers: Selected Poems
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