NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry. This award was first awarded in 2007 and since its conception, Nikki Giovanni holds the record for most wins in this category with three.
Winners and nominees[]
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s[]
Year | Work | Author | Ref |
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2007 | |||
Celebrations, Rituals of Peace and Prayer | Maya Angelou | [1] | |
Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees | DuEwa M. Frazier | ||
Hoops | Major Jackson | ||
Jazz | Walter Dean Myers | ||
We Speak Your Names | Pearl Cleage | ||
2008 | |||
Acolytes: Poems | Nikki Giovanni | [2] | |
Duende: Poems | Tracy K. Smith | ||
Eloquence: Rhythm and Renaissance | Usi Ku | ||
Quiver of Arrows | Carl Phillips | ||
Selected Poems | Derek Walcott | ||
2009 | N/A |
2010s[]
Year | Work | Author | Ref |
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2010 | |||
Bicycles | Nikki Giovanni | [3] | |
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry | Camille Dungy | ||
Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem | Mitchell L. H. Douglas | ||
Mixology | Adrian Matejka | ||
Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall | Melba Joyce Boyd | ||
2011 | |||
100 Best African-American Poems | Nikki Giovanni | [4] | |
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing | Alice Walker | ||
Holding Company | Major Jackson | ||
Suck on the Marrow | Camille T. Dungy | ||
White Egrets | Derek Walcott | ||
2012 | |||
Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems | James Golden | [5] | |
Head Off & Split | Nikky Finney | ||
Honoring Genius: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice | Haki Madhubuti | ||
Intimate Thoughts | Darrin Henson | ||
Last Seen | Jacqueline Jones Lamon | ||
2013 | |||
Speak Water | Truth Thomas | [6] | |
Hurrah's Nest | Arisa White | ||
Maybe the Saddest Thing | Marcus Wicker | ||
The Ground | Rowan Ricardo Phillips | ||
Thrall | Natasha Trethewey | ||
2014 | |||
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers | Frank X Walker | [7] | |
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid | Nikki Giovanni | ||
Hum | Jamaal May | ||
The Cineaste: Poems | A. Van Jordan | ||
The Collected Poems of Ai | Ai | ||
2015 | |||
Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | [8] | |
Digest | Gregory Pardlo | ||
The New Testament | Jericho Brown | ||
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948 – 2013 | Derek Walcott | ||
We Didn't Know Any Gangsters | Brian Gilmore | ||
2016 | |||
How to Be Drawn | Terrance Hayes | [9] | |
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Ross Gay | ||
Reconnaissance | Carl Phillips | ||
Redbone | Mahogany L. Browne | ||
Wild Hundreds | Nate Marshall | ||
2017 | |||
Collected Poems: 1974 — 2004 | Rita Dove | [10] | |
Counting Descent | Clint Smith | ||
The Big Book of Exit Strategies | Jamaal May | ||
The Sobbing School | Joshua Bennett | ||
Thief in the Interior | Phillip B. Williams | ||
2018 | |||
Incendiary Art: Poems | Patricia Smith | [11] | |
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter | Aja Monet | ||
Silencer | Marcus Wicker | ||
The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water | Cameron Barnett | ||
Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems | Ntozake Shange | ||
2019 | |||
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart | Alice Walker | [12] | |
Confessions of a Barefaced Woman | Allison Elaine Joseph | ||
Ghost, Like a Place | Iain Haley Pollock | ||
Refuse | Julian Randall | ||
The Gospel According to Wild Indigo | Cyrus Cassells |
2020s[]
Year | Work | Author | Ref |
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2020 | |||
Felon: Poems | Reginald Dwayne Betts | [13] | |
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland | DaMaris B. Hill | ||
Honeyfish | Lauren K. Alleyne | ||
Mistress | Chet'la Sebree | ||
The Tradition | Jericho Brown | ||
2021 | |||
The Age of Phillis | Honorée Jeffers | [14] | |
Homie | Danez Smith | ||
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry | John Murillo | ||
Seeing the Body | Rachel Eliza Griffiths | ||
Un-American | Hafizah Geter |
Multiple wins and nominations[]
Wins[]
- 3 wins
Nominations[]
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References[]
- ^ "2007 Image Awards". AALBC. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
- ^ "2008 Image Awards". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ "2010 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ "2011 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ Allin, Olivia. "2012 Image Award Winners". ABC7. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ^ Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ^ Couch, Aaron; Washington, Arlene (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ^ Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ^ "2016 Image Winners". Variety. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ^ Lewis, Hilary; Washington, Arlene (February 10, 2017). "2017 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ^ "NAACP Image Awards: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. January 14, 2018.
- ^ Lewis, Hilary (February 13, 2019). "NAACP Image Awards: 'Black Panther' Tops Film Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Schaffstall, Katherine; Howard, Annie (February 22, 2020). "NAACP Image Awards: Lizzo Named Entertainer of the Year; 'Just Mercy,' 'Black-ish' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Bosselman, Haley (March 28, 2021). "NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List". Variety.
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- NAACP Image Awards
- American literary awards