The Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a LGBTQ+ themed book of poetry.
At the first two Lambda Literary Awards in 1989 and 1990, a single award for Poetry was presented, irrespective of gender. 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. In 2016, an award for Transgender Poetry was introduced and has been presented every year since; likewise an award for Bisexual Poetry has been presented since 2019.
In 2024, an award for LGBTQ+ Poetry was again shortlisted, in addition to the 4 newer categories.
Honorees + Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry winners and finalistsYear Author Title Result 1989 and Joan Larkin (eds.) Gay & Lesbian Poetry in our Time Winner (transl.) Sappho: Poems and Fragments Finalist Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog 1990 Poets for Life Winner Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry Finalist Reader Naming the Waves Time's Power: Poems 1985–1988 1991–2007 See separate awards for Gay Poetry and Lesbian Poetry 2008 Blackbird and Wolf Winner Finalist Otherwise Obedient Fata Morgana Human Resources 2009–2015 See separate awards for Gay Poetry and Lesbian Poetry 2016–2018 See awards for Gay Poetry, Lesbian Poetry and Transgender Poetry 2019–2023 See awards for Gay Poetry, Lesbian Poetry, Transgender Poetry and Bisexual Poetry2024 Winner Lanternfly August Finalist Pig Toska2025Cowboy ParkWinnerI Hate PartiesFinalistNo Credit RiverNonbinary Bird of ParadiseYour Dazzling Death2026Yeet!WinnerUnfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and DreamingFinalistNon-ProphetWayward Creatures
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Lambda Literary Awards