Lambda Literary Award for Poetry

Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry
Awarded forLiterary award
Sponsored byLambda Literary Foundation
DateAnnual
Websitewww.lambdaliterary.org

The Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a 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 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. In 2016, an award for Transgender Poetry was introduced and has been presented every year since; likewise an award for 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

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Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry winners and finalists
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 Gay Poetry, Lesbian Poetry and Transgender Poetry
2019–2023 See awards for Gay Poetry, Lesbian Poetry, Transgender Poetry and 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

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  1. ^ As "Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Poetry"
  2. ^ Shortlisted under their deadname
  3. ^ In 2024, as well as a combined "Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry", poetry was also shortlisted in the separate categories of Gay Poetry, Lesbian Poetry, Transgender Poetry and Bisexual Poetry.

References

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  1. ^ "1st Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. January 13, 2010. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  2. ^ "2nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. July 13, 1990. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  3. ^ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna (April 30, 2007). "20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  4. ^ "Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". them. March 27, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
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