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The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry is an annual literary award presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of gay male poetry. First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of British poet Thom Gunn, the award's first winner, following his death in 2004.

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Recipients

Award winners and finalists [1]
YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef.
2001 Thom Gunn Boss CupidFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinner
Carl Phillips Pastoral Graywolf PressFinalist
Griffin Hansbury Day for NightPainted Leaf PressFinalist
2002 Mark Doty SourceHarperCollinsWinner
Billeh Nickerson The Asthmatic GlassblowerArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
Justin Chin Harmless MedicineManic D PressFinalist
2003 Greg Hewett Red SuburbCoffee House PressWinner
David Groff Theory of DevolutionUniversity of Illinois PressFinalist
Rafael Campo Landscape with Human FigureDuke University PressFinalist
2004 Brian Teare The Room Where I Was BornUniversity of Wisconsin PressWinner
Patrick DonnellyThe ChangeAusable PressFinalist
Peter Pereira Saying the WorldCopper Canyon PressFinalist
2005 Carl Phillips The Rest of Love Farrar, Straus and GirouxWinner
D. A. Powell CocktailsGraywolf PressFinalist
Ron Mohring Survivable WorldWord WorksFinalist
2006 Richard Siken CrushYale University PressWinner [2]
Frank Bidart Star Dust Farrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist
Peter Covino Cut Off the Ears of WinterNew IssuesFinalist
2007 Justin Chin GuttedManic D PressWinner [3]
Greg Hewett The Eros ConspiracyCoffee House PressFinalist
Jim Elledge A History of My TattooStonewallFinalist
2008 Daniel Hall Under SleepUniversity of Chicago PressWinner [4]
Steve Fellner Blind Date with CafavyMarsh Hawk PressWinner [4]
Henri Cole Blackbird and WolfFarrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist
2009 Ely Shipley Boy with FlowersBarrow Street PressWinner [5]
Jericho Brown PleaseNew IssuesFinalist
Mark Doty Fire to FireHarper/HarperCollinsFinalist
2010 Ronaldo V. Wilson Poems of the Black ObjectFuturepoem BooksWinner
Brent Goodman The Brother Swimming Beneath MeBlack Lawrence PressFinalist
D. A. Powell ChronicGraywolf PressFinalist
2011Michael WalshThe Dirt RiddlesUniversity of Arkansas PressWinner [6]
Eric Leigh Harm’s WayUniversity of Arkansas PressFinalist
Paul Legault The Madeleine PoemsOmnidawnFinalist
2012 Henri Cole TouchFarrar, Straus and GirouxWinner
Brad Richard Motion StudiesThe Word WorksFinalist
Christopher Hennessy Love-in-IdlenessBrooklyn Arts PressFinalist
Tim Dlugos A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim DlugosNightboat BooksFinalist
2013 Richard Blanco Looking for the Gulf MotelUniversity of Pittsburgh PressWinner [7]
Aaron Smith AppetiteUniversity of Pittsburgh PressFinalist
Eduardo C. Corral Slow LightningYale University PressFinalist
Stephen S. Mills He Do the Gay Man in Different VoicesSibling Rivalry PressFinalist
2014 Charlie Bondhus All the Heat We Could CarryMain Street RagWinner [8] [9] [10]
L. Lamar Wilson SacrilegionCarolina Wren PressFinalist [11]
Michael Klein The Talking DaySibling Rivalry PressFinalist [11]
Rigoberto González Unpeopled EdenFour Way BooksFinalist [11]
2015 Jericho Brown The New TestamentCopper Canyon PressWinner [12]
Pier Paolo Pasolini ; edited and trans. by Stephen Sartarelli The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual EditionUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist
Roberto Montes I Don’t Know Do YouAmpersand BooksFinalist
Saeed Jones Prelude to Bruise Coffee House PressFinalist
2016 Rick Barot ChordSarabande BooksWinner [13]
Oliver Bendorf The Spectral WildernessKent State University PressFinalist
Rickey Laurentiis Boy with ThornUniversity of Pittsburgh PressFinalist
Ronaldo V. Wilson Farther TravelerCounterpath PressFinalist
2017 Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds Copper Canyon PressWinner [14] [15]
Derrick Austin Trouble the WaterBOA EditionsFinalist
Phillip B. Williams Thief in the InteriorAlice James BooksFinalist
Sjohnna McCray RaptureGraywolf PressFinalist
2018 Chen Chen When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities BOA EditionsWinner [16]
Charif Shanahan Into Each Room We Enter Without KnowingSouthern Illinois University PressFinalist
Danez Smith Don’t Call Us DeadGraywolf PressFinalist
Frank Bidart Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965–2016 Farrar, Straus and GirouxFinalist
2019 Hieu Minh Nguyen Not Here Coffee House PressWinner [17]
Blas Falconer Forgive the Body This FailureFour Way BooksFinalist [18]
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo CenzontleBOA EditionsFinalist [18]
Timothy Liu Luminous Debris: New and Selected Legerdemain, 1992–2017Barrow Street PressFinalist [18]
2020Sam RossCompanyFour Way BooksWinner [19] [20]
Aaron Smith The Book of DanielUniversity of Pittsburgh PressFinalist [21]
Angelo Nestore ; trans. by Lawrence Schimel Impure ActsIndolent BooksFinalist [21]
Jan-Henry Gray DocumentsBOA EditionsFinalist [21]
2021 Mark Bibbins 13th BalloonCopper Canyon PressWinner [22] [23]
Danez Smith HomieGraywolf PressFinalist
Jameson Fitzpatrick Pricks in the TapestryBirds, LLCFinalist
Tommye Blount Fantasia for the Man in BlueFour Way BooksFinalist
2022 John Keene Punks: New & Selected Poems The Song CaveWinner [24]
Kevin Simmonds The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in VerseNorthwestern University PressFinalist
Miguel Murphy ShoreditchBarrow Street PressFinalist
Phillip B. Williams MutinyPenguin BooksFinalist
2023Philip Clark and Michael Bronski (ed.)Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta BorawskiRebel Satori PressWinner [25] [26]
Eric Tran Mouth, Sugar and SmokeDiode EditionsFinalist
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué MadnessNightboat BooksFinalist
Saeed Jones Alive at the End of the WorldCoffee House PressFinalist
2024 Charif Shanahan Trace EvidenceTin HouseWinner [27] [28]
Sam SaxPigScribnerFinalist [29]
Brian Teare Poem Bitten by a ManNightboat BooksFinalist [29]
Rigoberto González To the Boy Who Was NightFour Way BooksFinalist [29]

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