| Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry | |
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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, 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.
| Author | Title | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Decade Dance | Winner | ||
| Body in Flames | Finalist | |||
| Buried Body | ||||
| Healing Notebooks | ||||
| Special Deliveries | ||||
| 1992 | (ed.) | The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets | Winner | [1] |
| Bethlehem in Broad Daylight | Finalist | |||
| Hand Over Heart | ||||
| Sex-Charge | ||||
| The Burnt Pages | ||||
| 1993 | Counting Myself Lucky | Winner | [2] | |
| Ceremonies | Finalist | |||
| Long Division | ||||
| Strong Place | ||||
| The Man with Night Sweats | ||||
| 1994 | 1990 | Winner (tie) | [3] | |
| Collected Poems | ||||
| My Alexandria | Finalist | |||
| Orpheus in his Underwear | ||||
| Tranquil Lake of Love | ||||
| 1995 | Collected Poems | Winner | [4] | |
| Ghost Letters | Finalist | |||
| The Other Man Was Me | ||||
| West of Yesterday, East of Summer | ||||
| Wishing for Wings | ||||
| 1996 | Atlantis | Winner | [5] | |
| Badboy Book of Erotic Verse | Finalist | |||
| Burnt Offerings | ||||
| Cortege | ||||
| Scattering of Salts | ||||
| 1997 | What the Body Told | Winner | [6] | |
| Anesthesia | Finalist | |||
| Angel, Interrupted | ||||
| Eros in Boystown | ||||
| My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca | ||||
| 1998 | Beautiful Signor | Winner | [7] | |
| Bite Hard | Finalist | |||
| Desire | ||||
| Desire: Poems 1986-1996 | ||||
| (ed. Jim Cory) | Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 | |||
| 1999 | Ten Commandments | Winner | [8] | |
| A Flame for the Touch That Matters | Finalist | |||
| A Frieze for a Temple of Love | ||||
| Say Goodnight | ||||
| Sweet Machine | ||||
| 2000 | The Anchorage | Winner (tie) | [9] | |
| Trappings | ||||
| Diva | Finalist | |||
| Last Rights | ||||
| Lyric | ||||
| 2001 | Pastoral | Winner | [10] | |
| Boss Cupid | Finalist | |||
| Plasticville | ||||
| and Elena Georgiou | The World in Us | |||
| Word of Mouth | ||||
| 2002 | Source | Winner | [11] | |
| with Theoharis C. Theoharis (trans.) | Before Time Could Change Them | Finalist | ||
| Hard Evidence | ||||
| Harmless Medicine | ||||
| Love Speaks Its Name | ||||
| 2003 | Hazmat | Winner | [12] | |
| Landscape with Human Figure | Finalist | |||
| Ten Tongues | ||||
| The Christmas Poems | ||||
| Theory of Devolution | ||||
| 2004 | Sky Lounge | Winner | [13] | |
| Middle Earth | Finalist | |||
| Otherhood: Poems | ||||
| Saying the World | ||||
| The Healing Art | ||||
| 2005 | Written in Water | Winner | [14] | |
| Cocktails | Finalist | |||
| nothin’ ugly fly | ||||
| The Rest of Love | ||||
| Voluntary Servitude | ||||
| 2006 | Crush | Winner | [15] | |
| Blue on Blue Ground | Finalist | |||
| For Dust Thou Art | ||||
| School of the Arts | ||||
| Sugar | ||||
| 2007 | A History of My Tattoo | Winner | [16] | |
| Gutted | Finalist | |||
| Other Fugitives & Other Strangers | ||||
| The Album That Changed My Life | ||||
| When the Eye Forms | ||||
| No award presented | ||||
| 2009 | Fire to Fire | Winner (tie) | [17] | |
| Now You're the Enemy | ||||
| (Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, eds.) | My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer | Finalist | ||
| Please | ||||
| Want | ||||
| 2010 | Sweet Core Orchard | Winner | [18] | |
| Breakfast with Thom Gunn | Finalist | |||
| The Brother Swimming Beneath Me | ||||
| The First Risk | ||||
| What the Right Hand Knows | ||||
| 2011 | Pleasure | Winner | [19] [20] | |
| darkacre | Finalist | [21] | ||
| Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems | ||||
| The Salt Ecstasies | ||||
| then, we were still living | ||||
| 2012 | (David Trinidad, ed.) | A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos | Winner | [22] |
| Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems | Finalist | |||
| Double Shadow | ||||
| Kintsugi | ||||
| The Other Poems | ||||
| 2013 | He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices | Winner | [23] | |
| Appetite | Finalist | |||
| Looking for the Gulf Motel | ||||
| Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin | ||||
| Slow Lightning | ||||
| 2014 | Unpeopled Eden | Winner | [24] [25] | |
| Alternative Medicine | Finalist | |||
| Clay | ||||
| Companion Grasses | ||||
| Metaphysical Dog | ||||
| Obscenely Yours | ||||
| Silverchest | ||||
| Straight Razor | ||||
| The Apartment of Tragic Appliances | ||||
| The Talking Day | ||||
| 2015 | [insert] boy | Winner | [26] [27] [28] [29] | |
| Clean | Finalist | |||
| Don’t Go Back to Sleep | ||||
| ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness | ||||
| Prelude to Bruise | ||||
| The New Testament | ||||
| This Life Now | ||||
| This Way to the Sugar | ||||
| 2016 | Crevasse | Winner (tie) | [30] [31] | |
| Reconnaissance | ||||
| Angel Park | Finalist | [32] | ||
| Boy with Thorn | ||||
| Canto Hondo/Deep Song | ||||
| Otter | ||||
| Steep Tea | ||||
| Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail | ||||
| 2017 | Thief in the Interior | Winner | [33] [34] | |
| DIG | Finalist | [35] | ||
| Night Sky with Exit Wounds | ||||
| Primer | ||||
| Rapture | ||||
| The Halo | ||||
| The Taxidermist’s Cut | ||||
| Trouble the Water | ||||
| 2018 | While Standing in Line for Death | Winner | [36] [37] [38] | |
| Don’t Call Us Dead | Finalist | [39] | ||
| Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing | ||||
| Nature Poem | ||||
| Proprietary | ||||
| Royals | ||||
| So Far Afield | ||||
| When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities | ||||
| 2019 | Indecency | Winner | [40] [41] | |
| ESL or You Weren’t Here | Finalist | [42] | ||
| Inquisition | ||||
| Junk | ||||
| Not Here | ||||
| Stereo(TYPE) | ||||
| Unfinished Sketches of a Revolution (tr. Barbara Jursa) | ||||
| Wild Is the Wind | ||||
| 2020 | Slingshot | Winner | [43] [44] [45] | |
| Doomstead Days | Finalist | [46] [47] | ||
| Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers | ||||
| Losing Miami | ||||
| NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field | ||||
| The Experiment of the Tropics | ||||
| The Revisionist & The Astropastorals | ||||
| The Tradition | ||||
| 2021 | Guillotine | Winner | [48] [49] [50] | |
| Fantasia for the Man in Blue | Finalist | [51] | ||
| Sacrament of Bodies | ||||
| Thanksgiving: A Poem | ||||
| The Malevolent Volume | ||||
| 2022 | Punks: New & Selected Poems | Winner | [52] | |
| Besiege Me | Finalist | [53] | ||
| Creep Love | ||||
| Shoreditch | ||||
| Tenderness | ||||
| 2023 | Some Integrity | Winner | [54] | |
| Alive at the End of the World | Finalist | [55] | ||
| Brother Sleep | ||||
| Pleasure | ||||
| Super Model Minority | ||||
| 2024 | Trace Evidence | Winner | [56] | |
| Hard Drive | Finalist | [57] | ||
| Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems | ||||
| Love(ly) Child | ||||
| What We Lost in the Swamp | ||||