Lambda Literary Award for Poetry
| Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Literary award |
| Sponsored by | Lambda Literary Foundation |
| Date | Annual |
| Website | www |
The Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry is an annual
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
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
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Carl Morse and Joan Larkin (eds.) | Gay & Lesbian Poetry in our Time | Winner | [1] |
| Josephine Balmer (transl.) | Sappho: Poems and Fragments | Finalist | ||
| James Merrill | The Inner Room | |||
| Paul Monette | Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog | |||
| May Sarton | The Silence Now | |||
| 1990 | Michael Klein | Poets for Life | Winner | [2] |
| Cheryl Clarke | Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry | Finalist | ||
| Robert Glück | Reader | |||
| Christian McEwen | Naming the Waves | |||
| Adrienne Rich | Time’s Power: Poems 1985–1988 | |||
| 1991–2007 | See separate awards for Gay Poetry and Lesbian Poetry | |||
| 2008[a] | Henri Cole | Blackbird and Wolf | Winner | [3] |
| Dawn Lundy Martin | A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering | Finalist | ||
| Carol Potter | Otherwise Obedient | |||
| Reginald Shepherd | Fata Morgana | |||
| C. Dale Young | The Second Person | |||
| Syd Zolf[b] | Human Resources | |||
| 2009–2015 | See separate awards for Gay Poetry and Lesbian Poetry | |||
| 2016–2018 | See awards for Transgender Poetry
| |||
| 2019–2023 | See awards for Bisexual Poetry
| |||
| 2024[c] | Robin Gow | Lanternfly August | Finalist | [4] |
| Destiny Hemphill | motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life | |||
| Sam Sax | Pig | |||
| Quinn Carver Johnson | The Perfect Bastard | |||
| Alina Pleskova | Toska | |||
Notes
- ^ As "Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Poetry"
- deadname
- Bisexual Poetry.
References
- ^ "1st Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. January 13, 2010. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
- ^ "2nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. July 13, 1990. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
- ^ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna (April 30, 2007). "20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
- them.March 27, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
