Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
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Sponsored byLambda Literary Foundation
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The Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a lesbian-themed book of poetry by a female 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 Lesbian Poetry and Gay 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.

Recipients

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1991 Marilyn Hacker Going Back to the River Winner
Irena Klepfisz A Few Words in the Mother Tongue Finalist
S. Diane Bogus Chant of the Women of Magdalena
Minnie Bruce Pratt Crime Against Nature
Yvonne Zipter Patience of Metal
1992 Adrienne Rich An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 Winner [1]
Eloise Klein Healy Artemis in Echo Park Finalist [1]
Maureen Seaton Fear of Subways
Eileen Myles Not Me
Becky Birtha The Forbidden Poems
1993 Audre Lorde Undersong Winner [2]
Nancy Boutilier According to Her Contours Finalist [2]
Terry Wolverton Black Slip
Lori Anderson Cultivating Excess
Diane Stein Lady Sun, Lady Moon
1994 Audre Lorde The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance Winner [3]
May Sarton Collected Poems (1930-1993) Finalist [3]
Cheryl Clarke Experimental Love Poetry
Kate Rushin The Black Back-Ups
Cherrie Moraga The Last Generation
1995 Marilyn Hacker Winter Numbers Winner [4]
Sapphire American Dreams Finalist [4]
June Jordan Haruko/Love Poems
Linda Smukler Normal Sex
Mary Oliver White Pine
1996 Adrienne Rich Dark Fields of the Republic Winner [5]
Chrystos Fire Power Finalist [5]
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg Key to Everything
Eileen Myles Maxfield Parrish
Jewelle Gomez Oral Tradition
1997 Robin Becker All-American Girl Winner [6]
Maureen Seaton Furious Cooking
Clare Coss Arc of Love Finalist [6]
Linda Smukler Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash.
Jeredith Merrin Shift
1998 Joan Larkin Cold River Winner [7]
Eileen Myles School of Fish
Pat Califia Diesel Fuel Finalist [7]
Emma Donoghue Poems Between Women
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry
1999 Gerry Gomez Pearlberg Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette Winner [8]
Pamela Sneed Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery Finalist [8]
Beatrix Gates In the Open
Letta Neely Juba
Leslea Newman The Little Butch Book
2000 Olga Broumas Rave Winner [9]
Brenda Shaughnessy Interior With Sudden Joy Finalist [9]
Adrienne Rich Midnight Salvage
Rita Wong Monkeypuzzle
Minnie Bruce Pratt Walking Back Up Depot Street
2001 Elena Georgiou Mercy Mercy Me Winner [10]
Joy Harjo A Map to the Next World Finalist [10]
Nancy Boutilier And on the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone
Leslea Newman Signs of Love
Robin Becker The Horse Fair
2002 Adrienne Rich Fox Winner [11]
Letta Neely Here Finalist [11]
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg Mr. Bluebird
Eileen Myles Skies
Daphne Gottlieb Why Things Burn
2003 Ellen Bass Mules of Love Winner [12]
C. C. Carter Body Language Finalist [12]
Eloise Klein Healy Passing
Melanie Braverman Red
Jenny Factor Unraveling
2004 Minnie Bruce Pratt The Dirt She Ate Winner [13]
Terry Wolverton Embers Finalist [13]
Daphne Gottlieb Final Girl
Susan McCabe Swirl
Michelle Tea The Beautiful
2005 Beverly Burch Sweet to Burn Winner [14]
Amy King Antidotes for an Alibi Finalist [14]
Carol Guess Femme’s Dictionary
Adrienne Rich The School Among the Ruins
Mary Oliver Why I Wake Early
2006 June Jordan Directed by Desire: Collected Poems Winner [15]
Amber Flora Thomas Eye of Water Finalist [15]
Jackie Kay Life Mask
Mary Oliver New and Selected Poems, Volume II
Samiya Bashir Where the Apple Falls
2007 Sina Queyras Lemon Hound Winner [16]
Cheryl Clarke Days of Good Looks Finalist [16]
Robin Becker Domain of Perfect Affection
Juliet Patterson The Truant Lover
Nathalie Stephens Touch to Affliction
2008 No award presented [17][18]
2009 Judy Grahn love belongs to those who do the feeling Winner [19]
Elizabeth Bradfield Interpretive Work Finalist [19]
Daphne Gottlieb Kissing Dead Girls
Maureen N. McLane Same Life
Nancy K. Pearson Two Minutes of Light
2010 Stacie Cassarino Zero at the Bone Winner [20]
Kristin Naca Bird Eating Bird Finalist [20]
Samiya Bashir Gospel: Poems
Marilyn Hacker Names
Ana Božičević Stars of the Night Commute
2011 Anna Swanson The Nights Also Winner [21][22]
Elizabeth J. Colen Money for Sunsets Finalist [23]
Jen Currin The Inquisition Yours
Eleanor Lerman The Sensual World Re-Emerges
Laurie MacFadyen White Shirt
2012 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Love Cake Winner [24]
Daphne Gottlieb 15 Ways to Stay Alive Finalist
Dawn Lundy Martin Discipline
Julie R. Enszer (ed.) Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry
Christina Hutchins The Stranger Dissolves
2013 Etel Adnan Sea and Fog Winner [25]
Kathryn L. Pringle fault tree Finalist [25]
Julia Bloch Letters to Kelly Clarkson
Eileen Myles snowflake/different streets
Marty McConnell wine for a shotgun
2014 Ana Božičević Rise in the Fall Winner [26][27][28]
Eloise Klein Healy A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings Finalist [29][27]
Veronica Reyes Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers Chord Box
R. Erica Doyle Proxy
Kamilah Aisha Moon She Has a Name
Ai The Collected Poems of Ai
Sophie Cabot Black The Exchange
Suzanne Parker Viral
Tamiko Beyer We Come Elemental
2015 Valerie Wetlaufer Mysterious Acts by My People Winner [30][31]
Lenelle Moïse Haiti Glass Finalist [32]
Rachel Zolf Janey’s Arcadia
Meg Day Last Psalm at Sea Level
Ellen Bass Like a Beggar
Sina Queyras MxT
Megan Volpert Only Ride
Susanna Mishler Termination Dust
2016 Dawn Lundy Martin Life in a Box is a Pretty Life Winner [33][34]
Claudia Rodriguez Everybody’s Bread Finalist [35][36]
Sara Jane Stoner Experience in the Medium of Destruction
Margot Douaihy Girls Like You
Jessica Jacobs Pelvis with Distance
J. P. Howard Say/Mirror: Poems and Histories
Stephanie Gray Shorthand and Electric Language Stars
Melissa Buzzeo The Devastation
2017 Pat Parker (Julie R. Enszer, ed.) Complete Works of Pat Parker Winner [37]
Francine J. Harris play dead
Donika Kelly Bestiary Finalist [38]
Etel Adnan Night
Stacy Szymaszek Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night’s Press Journal of Ugly Sites
Stephanie Adams-Santos Swarm Queen’s Crown
Vi Khi Nao The Old Philosopher
Arisa White You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
2018 Rosamond S. King Rock | Salt | Stone Winner [39][40][41]
Constance Merritt Blind Girl Grunt Finalist [42]
Sarah Pinder Common Place
Dawn Lundy Martin Good Stock Strange Blood
Ana-Maurine Lara Kohnjehr Woman
Sina Queyras My Ariel
Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa Rummage
Jen Bervin Silk Poems
2019 Nina Puro Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House Winner [43][44]
Emilia Nielsen Body Work Finalist [45]
Eileen Myles Evolution
Marylyn Tan Gaze Back
Tess Liem Obits.
Kristin Chang Past Lives
Etel Adnan Surge
Jane Miller Who Is Trixie the Trasher? And Other Questions
2020 t'ai freedom ford & more black Winner [46][47][48]
Rocío Carlos (the other house) Finalist [49][50]
Shira Erlichman Odes to Lithium
Sharanpal Ruprai Pressure Cooker Love Bomb
Franny Choi Soft Science
Etel Adnan Time
Lee Ann Roripaugh tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
Gala Mukomolova Without Protection
2021 Pamela Sneed Funeral Diva Winner [51][52][53]
Kimberly Alidio : once teeth bones coral : Finalist [54]
Roya Marsh dayliGht
Sarah M. Sala Devil’s Lake
Mary Jean Chan Flèche
2022 Tamiko Beyer Last Days Winner [55]
Rosamond S. King All the Rage Finalist [56]
Grace Lau The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak
Donika Kelly The Renunciations: Poems
Arisa White Who’s Your Daddy
2023 Shelley Wong As She Appears Winner [57]
Natalie Wee Beast at Every Threshold Finalist [58]
Courtney Faye Taylor Concentrate
Brynne Rebele-Henry Prelude
Rage Hezekiah Yearn
2024 Alyse Knorr Ardor Finalist [59]
Brionne Janae Because You Were Mine
Maggie Millner Couplets
Stephanie Adams-Santos Dream of Xibalba
Kimberly Alidio Teeter

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