Audre Lorde Award

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.
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	Cheryl 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]
2025	Cass Donish	Your Dazzling Death	Knopf	Winner	^[29]
	Saretta Morgan	Alt-Nature	Coffee House Press	Finalist	^[30]
	RK Fauth	A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees	Texas Tech University Press	Finalist	^[30]
	Omotara James	Song of My Softening	Alice James Books	Finalist	^[30]
2026	Achy Obejas	The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones	Beacon Press	Finalist	^[31]
	SaraEllen Strongman (ed.)	Essential Poems by Pat Parker	Sinister Wisdom	Finalist	^[31]
	Ally Ang	Let the Moon Wobble	Alice James Books	Finalist	^[31]
	Keetje Kuipers	Lonely Women Make Good Lovers	BOA Editions	Finalist	^[31]
	Elizabeth Bradfield	SOFAR	Persea Books	Finalist	^[31]

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