The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of lesbian poetry. First presented in 2001, the award was named in memory of American poet Audre Lorde.
| 2001 | Squares and Courtyards | W. W. Norton | Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Mercy Me | Painted Leaf Press | Finalist | |||
| On the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone | Black Sparrow Press | Finalist | |||
| 2002 | Mr. Bluebird | Painted Leaf Press | Winner | ||
| Skies | Black Sparrow Press | Finalist | |||
| Here | Wildheart Press | Finalist | |||
| 2003 | Red | Perugia Press | Winner | ||
| Passing | Red Hen Press | Finalist | |||
| Côte Blanche | New Issues | Finalist | |||
| 2004 | Final Girl | Soft Skull Press | Winner | ||
| Desesperanto | W. W. Norton | Finalist | |||
| University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2005 | Venus Examines Her Breast | Carnegie Mellon University Press | Winner | ||
| W. W. Norton | Finalist | ||||
| Year of the Snake | Southern Illinois University Press | Finalist | |||
| 2006 | Copper Canyon Press | Winner | [2] | ||
| Collected Poems with Notes Toward the Memoirs | University of Wisconsin Press | Finalist | ||
| Directed by Desire | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | |||
| 2007 | Hometown for an Hour | Ohio University Press | Winner | [3] | |
| Sleeping Upside Down | Silverfish Review Press | Finalist | |||
| University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2008 | My Body | Hanging Loose Press | Winner | [4] | |
| Sorry, Tree | Wave Books | Finalist | |||
| New Issues | Finalist | ||||
| 2009 | Interpretive Work | Red Hen Press | Winner | [5] | |
| Causeway | New Issues | Finalist | |||
| Same Life | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | |||
| 2010 | Zero at the Bone | New Issues Poetry & Prose | Winner | ||
| Bird Eating Bird | HarperPerennial/HarperCollins | Finalist | |||
| On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year | Southern Illinois University Press | Finalist | |||
| 2011 | Coach House Books | Winner | [6] | ||
| Sarabande Books | Finalist | ||||
| Money for Sunsets | Steel Toe Books | Finalist | |||
| 2012 | Inside the Money Machine | Carolina Wren Press | Winner | ||
| Sixteen Rivers Press | Finalist | ||||
| Open Winter | Bellday Books | Finalist | |||
| Cow | Spinifex Press | Finalist | |||
| 2013 | Song and Spectacle | Harbour Publishing | Winner | [7] | |
| Port of Call | Plain View Press | Finalist | |||
| Wine for a Shotgun | EM Press | Finalist | |||
| Wings Press | Finalist | ||||
| 2014 | Enchantée | Oberlin College Press | Winner | [8] [9] | |
| Swoop | Graywolf Press | Finalist | [10] | ||
| She Has a Name | Four Way Books | Finalist | |||
| Butch Geography | Tupelo Press | Finalist | |||
| 2015 | Last Psalm at Sea Level | Barrow Street Press | Winner | [11] | |
| How a Mirage Works | Sixteen Rivers Press | Finalist | |||
| Like a Beggar | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | |||
| Tiger Heron | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | |||
| 2016 | No Confession, No Mass | University of Nebraska Press | Winner | [12] | |
| Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life | Nightboat Books | Finalist | |||
| Bodymap | Mawenzi House/TSAR | Finalist | |||
| Fanny Says | BOA Editions | Finalist | |||
| 2017 | play dead | Alice James Books | Winner | [13] [14] | |
| Bestiary | Graywolf Press | Finalist | |||
| Threnody | Nightboat Books | Finalist | |||
| , edited by Julie R. Enszer | Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night’s Press | Finalist | |||
| 2018 | Rocket Fantastic | Persea Books | Winner | [15] | |
| Lena | Texas Tech University Press | Finalist | |||
| No Dictionary of a Living Tongue | Nightboat Books | Finalist | |||
| Some Say | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | |||
| 2019 | Rest | Four Way Books | Winner | [16] | |
| High Ground Coward | University of Iowa Press | Finalist | [17] | ||
| Autobiography of a Wound | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | |||
| Mosaic of the Dark | Black Lawrence Press | Finalist | |||
| 2020 | Odes to Lithium | Alice James Books | Winner | [18] [19] | |
| Be Recorder | Graywolf Press | Finalist | [20] | ||
| Soft Science | Alice James Books | Finalist | |||
| Tonguebreaker | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | |||
| 2021 | Postcolonial Love Poem | Graywolf Press | Winner | [21] [22] | |
| Indigo | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | |||
| Here Is the Sweet Hand | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | |||
| Devil’s Lake | Tolsun Books | Finalist | |||
| 2022 | Mama Phife Represents | Haymarket Books | Winner | [23] | |
| Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||||
| Magnified | Wesleyan University Press | Finalist | |||
| Permanent Volta | Nightboat Books | Finalist | |||
| 2023 | Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 | Wesleyan University Press | Winner | [24] [25] | |
| Beast at Every Threshold | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | |||
| Yearn | Diode Editions | Finalist | |||
| Urbanshee | Button Poetry | Finalist | |||
| 2024 | Have You Been Long Enough at Table | Tin House | Winner | [26] [27] | |
| Four in Hand | BOA Editions | Finalist | [28] | ||
| I Am the Most Dangerous Thing | Alice James Books | Finalist | |||
| motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life | Action Books | Finalist |