The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of lesbian poetry. First presented in 2001, the award was named in memory of American poet Audre Lorde.
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | Marilyn Hacker | Squares and Courtyards | W. W. Norton | Winner | |
Elena Georgiou | Mercy Mercy Me | Painted Leaf Press | Finalist | ||
Nancy Boutilier | On the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone | Black Sparrow Press | Finalist | ||
2002 | Gerry Gomez Pearlberg | Mr. Bluebird | Painted Leaf Press | Winner | |
Eileen Myles | Skies | Black Sparrow Press | Finalist | ||
Letta Neely | Here | Wildheart Press | Finalist | ||
2003 | Melanie Braverman | Red | Perugia Press | Winner | |
Eloise Klein Healy | Passing | Red Hen Press | Finalist | ||
Martha Serpas | Côte Blanche | New Issues | Finalist | ||
2004 | Daphne Gottlieb | Final Girl | Soft Skull Press | Winner | |
Marilyn Hacker | Desesperanto | W. W. Norton | Finalist | ||
Minnie Bruce Pratt | The Dirt She Ate | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | ||
2005 | Maureen Seaton | Venus Examines Her Breast | Carnegie Mellon University Press | Winner | |
Adrienne Rich | The School Among the Ruins | W. W. Norton | Finalist | ||
Lee Ann Roripaugh | Year of the Snake | Southern Illinois University Press | Finalist | ||
2006 | Jane Miller | A Palace of Pearls | Copper Canyon Press | Winner | [2] |
Djuna Barnes ; edited by Philip Herring and Osias Stutman | Collected Poems with Notes Toward the Memoirs | University of Wisconsin Press | Finalist | ||
June Jordan | Directed by Desire | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | ||
2007 | Jennifer Rose | Hometown for an Hour | Ohio University Press | Winner | [3] |
Kate Lynn Hibbard | Sleeping Upside Down | Silverfish Review Press | Finalist | ||
Robin Becker | The Domain of Perfect Affection | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | ||
2008 | Joan Larkin | My Body | Hanging Loose Press | Winner | [4] |
Eileen Myles | Sorry, Tree | Wave Books | Finalist | ||
Jennifer Perrine | The Body Is No Machine | New Issues | Finalist | ||
2009 | Elizabeth Bradfield | Interpretive Work | Red Hen Press | Winner | [5] |
Elaine Sexton | Causeway | New Issues | Finalist | ||
Maureen McLane | Same Life | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||
2010 | Stacie Cassarino | Zero at the Bone | New Issues Poetry & Prose | Winner | |
Kristin Naca | Bird Eating Bird | HarperPerennial/HarperCollins | Finalist | ||
Lee Ann Roripaugh | On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year | Southern Illinois University Press | Finalist | ||
2011 | Jen Currin | The Inquisition Yours | Coach House Books | Winner | [6] |
Eleanor Lerman | The Sensual World Re-emerges | Sarabande Books | Finalist | ||
Elizabeth J. Colen | Money for Sunsets | Steel Toe Books | Finalist | ||
2012 | Minnie Bruce Pratt | Inside the Money Machine | Carolina Wren Press | Winner | |
Christina Hutchins | The Stranger Dissolves | Sixteen Rivers Press | Finalist | ||
Rae Gouirand | Open Winter | Bellday Books | Finalist | ||
Susan Hawthorne | Cow | Spinifex Press | Finalist | ||
2013 | Rachel Rose | Song and Spectacle | Harbour Publishing | Winner | [7] |
Davida Singer | Port of Call | Plain View Press | Finalist | ||
Marty McConnell | Wine for a Shotgun | EM Press | Finalist | ||
Susan Sherman | The Light That Puts an End to Dreams | Wings Press | Finalist | ||
2014 | Angie Estes | Enchantée | Oberlin College Press | Winner | [8] [9] |
Hailey Leithauser | Swoop | Graywolf Press | Finalist | [10] | |
Kamilah Aisha Moon | She Has a Name | Four Way Books | Finalist | [10] | |
Stacey Waite | Butch Geography | Tupelo Press | Finalist | [10] | |
2015 | Meg Day | Last Psalm at Sea Level | Barrow Street Press | Winner | [11] |
Beverly Burch | How a Mirage Works | Sixteen Rivers Press | Finalist | ||
Ellen Bass | Like a Beggar | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | ||
Robin Becker | Tiger Heron | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | ||
2016 | Jennifer Perrine | No Confession, No Mass | University of Nebraska Press | Winner | [12] |
Dawn Lundy | Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life | Nightboat Books | Finalist | ||
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Bodymap | Mawenzi House/TSAR | Finalist | ||
Nickole Brown | Fanny Says | BOA Editions | Finalist | ||
2017 | Francine J. Harris | play dead | Alice James Books | Winner | [13] [14] |
Donika Kelly | Bestiary | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
Juliet Patterson | Threnody | Nightboat Books | Finalist | ||
Pat Parker , edited by Julie R. Enszer | The Complete Works of Pat Parker | Sinister Wisdom/A Midsummer Night’s Press | Finalist | ||
2018 | Gabrielle Calvocoressi | Rocket Fantastic | Persea Books | Winner | [15] |
Cassie Pruyn | Lena | Texas Tech University Press | Finalist | ||
Duriel E. Harris | No Dictionary of a Living Tongue | Nightboat Books | Finalist | ||
Maureen N. McLane | Some Say | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||
2019 | Margaree Little | Rest | Four Way Books | Winner | [16] |
Alicia Mountain | High Ground Coward | University of Iowa Press | Finalist | [17] | |
Brynne Rebele-Henry | Autobiography of a Wound | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | [17] | |
Lisa Dordal | Mosaic of the Dark | Black Lawrence Press | Finalist | [17] | |
2020 | Shira Erlichman | Odes to Lithium | Alice James Books | Winner | [18] [19] |
Carmen Giménez Smith | Be Recorder | Graywolf Press | Finalist | [20] | |
Franny Choi | Soft Science | Alice James Books | Finalist | [20] | |
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Tonguebreaker | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | [20] | |
2021 | Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem | Graywolf Press | Winner | [21] [22] |
Ellen Bass | Indigo | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | ||
Francine J. Harris | Here Is the Sweet Hand | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||
Sarah M. Sala | Devil’s Lake | Tolsun Books | Finalist | ||
2022 | [Boyce-Taylor] | Mama Phife Represents | Haymarket Books | Winner | [23] |
Donika Kelly | The Renunciations | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
Minnie Bruce Pratt | Magnified | Wesleyan University Press | Finalist | ||
Rosie Stockton | Permanent Volta | Nightboat Books | Finalist | ||
2023 | Irena Klepfisz | Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 | Wesleyan University Press | Winner | [24] [25] |
Natalie Wee | Beast at Every Threshold | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | ||
Rage Hezekiah | Yearn | Diode Editions | Finalist | ||
Siaara Freeman | Urbanshee | Button Poetry | Finalist | ||
2024 | Leslie Sainz | Have You Been Long Enough at Table | Tin House | Winner | [26] [27] |
Alicia Mountain | Four in Hand | BOA Editions | Finalist | [28] | |
Candace Williams | I Am the Most Dangerous Thing | Alice James Books | Finalist | [28] | |
Destiny Hemphill | motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life | Action Books | Finalist | [28] |
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