Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
Awarded for	Literary award
Sponsored by	Lambda Literary Foundation
Date	Annual

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 , 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.

Winners and nominees[]

Year	Winner	Nominated
1988	No award presented
1989	No award presented
1990	Michael Lassell, Decade Dance	Francisco X. Alarcón, Body in Flames , Buried Body Kenny Fries, Healing Notebooks James Broughton, Special Deliveries
1991	Assotto Saint, ed., The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets	Mark Doty, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight John Ash, The Burnt Pages David Trinidad, Hand Over Heart Perry Brass, Sex-Charge
1992	Edward Field, Counting Myself Lucky	Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats Essex Hemphill, Ceremonies Tim Dlugos, Strong Place , Long Division
1993	Michael Klein, 1990 James Schuyler, Collected Poems	Mark Doty, My Alexandria William Bory, Orpheus in his Underwear , Tranquil Lake of Love
1994	Thom Gunn, Collected Poems	Rafael Campo, The Other Man Was Me Richard McCann, Ghost Letters Assotto Saint, Wishing for Wings Paul Monette, West of Yesterday, East of Summer
1995	Mark Doty, Atlantis	Carl Phillips, Cortege , Badboy Book of Erotic Verse James Merrill, Scattering of Salts Timothy Liu, Burnt Offerings
1996	Rafael Campo, What the Body Told	Kenny Fries, Anesthesia Reginald Shepherd, Angel, Interrupted Michael Lassell, Eros in Boystown Jaime Manrique, My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca
1997	Cyrus Cassells, Beautiful Signor	Justin Chin, Bite Hard Frank Bidart, Desire James Broughton (ed. ), Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 , Desire: Poems 1986-1996
1998	J. D. McClatchy, Ten Commandments	Michael Lassell, A Flame for the Touch That Matters Edward Field, A Frieze for a Temple of Love Timothy Liu, Say Goodnight Mark Doty, Sweet Machine
1999	Mark Wunderlich, The Anchorage Richard Howard, Trappings	Rafael Campo, Diva , Last Rights G. Winston James, Lyric
2000	Carl Phillips, Pastoral	Thom Gunn, Boss Cupid Michael Lassell and , The World in Us Timothy Liu, Word of Mouth David Trinidad, Plasticville
2001	Mark Doty, Source	Constantine Cavafy, Before Time Could Change Them Justin Chin, Harmless Medicine Timothy Liu, Hard Evidence J.D. McClatchy, Love Speaks Its Name
2002	J. D. McClatchy, Hazmat	, The Christmas Poems Rafael Campo, Landscape with Human Figure , Ten Tongues David Groff, Theory of Devolution
2003	Mark Bibbins, Sky Lounge	Henri Cole, Middle Earth Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood: Poems , Saying the World Rafael Campo, The Healing Art
2004	Luis Cernuda, Written in Water	D. A. Powell, Cocktails , nothin’ ugly fly Carl Phillips, The Rest of Love Mark Wunderlich, Voluntary Servitude
2005	Richard Siken, Crush^{[citation needed]}	Mark Doty, School of the Arts , For Dust Thou Art Martin Pousson, Sugar , Blue on Blue Ground
2006	, A History of My Tattoo	Justin Chin, Gutted , The Album That Changed My Life Rigoberto González, Other Fugitives & Other Strangers , When the Eye Forms
2007	No award presented
2008	Mark Doty, Fire to Fire , Now You're the Enemy	Rick Barot, Want Jericho Brown, Please Jack Spicer (Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, eds.), My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
2009	Benjamin S. Grossberg, Sweet Core Orchard	, The Brother Swimming Beneath Me Tom Healy, What the Right Hand Knows Charles Jensen, The First Risk Randall Mann, Breakfast with Thom Gunn
2010	, Pleasure	, darkacre , then, we were still living James Schuyler, Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems James L. White, The Salt Ecstasies
2011	Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos	Paul Legault, The Other Poems , Kintsugi Carl Phillips, Double Shadow David Trinidad, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems
2012	, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices	Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning Patrick Donnelly, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin , Appetite
2013	Rigoberto González, Unpeopled Eden^[1]	Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog Rafael Campo, Alternative Medicine David Groff, Clay Michael Klein, The Talking Day Randall Mann, Straight Razor Angelo Nikolopoulos, Obscenely Yours Carl Phillips, Silverchest , The Apartment of Tragic Appliances , Companion Grasses
2014	Danez Smith, [insert] boy^[2]	, Clean Timothy Liu, Don’t Go Back to Sleep C. A. Conrad, ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness Jericho Brown, The New Testament Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise , This Life Now Hieu Minh Nguyen, This Way to the Sugar
2015	, Crevasse^[3] Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance^[3]	, Angel Park , Boy with Thorn Francisco X. Alarcón, Canto Hondo/Deep Song Ben Ladouceur, Otter Jee Leong Koh, Steep Tea , Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail
2016	Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior^[4]	, Trouble the Water , DIG Sjohnna McCray, Rapture Rajiv Mohabir, The Taxidermist’s Cut Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds , Primer C. Dale Young, The Halo
2017	C. A. Conrad, While Standing in Line for Death^[5]	Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead , Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing Tommy Pico, Nature Poem Randall Mann, Proprietary Cedar Sigo, Royals , So Far Afield Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2018	Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency^[6]	Kazim Ali, Inquisition , Stereo(TYPE) Brane Mozetič, Unfinished Sketches of a Revolution (tr. ) Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here Carl Phillips, Wild Is the Wind Tommy Pico, Junk , ESL or You Weren’t Here
2019	Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Slingshot^[7]	Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field Jericho Brown, The Tradition , The Revisionist & The Astropastorals Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, The Experiment of the Tropics , Losing Miami , Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers , Doomstead Days
2020	Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine	Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue Justin Phillip Reed, The Malevolent Volume , Sacrament of Bodies , Thanksgiving: A Poem