NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
American literature award
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This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry. This award was first awarded in 2007 and since its conception, Nikki Giovanni holds the record for most wins in this category with three.
Winners and nominees
2000s
| Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Celebrations, Rituals of Peace and Prayer | Maya Angelou | Winner | [1] |
| Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees | DuEwa Frazier | Finalist | [1] | |
| Hoops | Major Jackson | |||
| Jazz | Walter Dean Myers | |||
| We Speak Your Names | Pearl Cleage | |||
| 2008 | Acolytes: Poems | Nikki Giovanni | Winner | [2] |
| Duende: Poems | Tracy K. Smith | Finalist | [3] | |
| Eloquence: Rhythm and Renaissance | Usi Ku | |||
| Quiver of Arrows | Carl Phillips | |||
| Selected Poems | Derek Walcott | |||
| 2009 | N/a | |||
2010s
| Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Bicycles | Nikki Giovanni | Winner | [4] |
| Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry | Camille Dungy | Finalist | [5] | |
| Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem | Mitchell L. H. Douglas | |||
| Mixology | Adrian Matejka | |||
| Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall | Melba Joyce Boyd | |||
| 2011 | 100 Best African-American Poems | Nikki Giovanni | Winner | [6] |
| Hard Times Require Furious Dancing | Alice Walker | Finalist | ||
| Holding Company | Major Jackson | |||
| Suck on the Marrow | Camille T. Dungy | |||
| White Egrets | Derek Walcott | |||
| 2012 | Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems | James Golden | Winner | [7] |
| Head Off & Split | Nikky Finney | Finalist | [7] | |
| Honoring Genius: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice | Haki Madhubuti | |||
| Intimate Thoughts | Darrin Henson | |||
| Last Seen | Jacqueline Jones Lamon | |||
| 2013 | Speak Water | Truth Thomas | Winner | [8] |
| Hurrah's Nest | Arisa White | Finalist | [8] | |
| Maybe the Saddest Thing | Marcus Wicker | |||
| The Ground | Rowan Ricardo Phillips | |||
| Thrall | Natasha Trethewey | |||
| 2014 | Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers | Frank X Walker | Winner | [9] |
| Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid | Nikki Giovanni | Finalist | [9] | |
| Hum | Jamaal May | |||
| The Cineaste: Poems | A. Van Jordan | |||
| The Collected Poems of Ai | Ai | |||
| 2015 | Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | Winner | [10] |
| Digest | Gregory Pardlo | Finalist | [10] | |
| The New Testament | Jericho Brown | |||
| The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013 | Derek Walcott | |||
| We Didn't Know Any Gangsters | Brian Gilmore | |||
| 2016 | How to Be Drawn | Terrance Hayes | Winner | [11][12] |
| Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Ross Gay | Finalist | [11] | |
| Reconnaissance | Carl Phillips | |||
| Redbone | Mahogany L. Browne | |||
| Wild Hundreds | Nate Marshall | |||
| 2017 | Collected Poems: 1974–2004 | Rita Dove | Winner | [13] |
| Counting Descent | Clint Smith | Finalist | [13] | |
| The Big Book of Exit Strategies | Jamaal May | |||
| The Sobbing School | Joshua Bennett | |||
| Thief in the Interior | Phillip B. Williams | |||
| 2018 | Incendiary Art: Poems | Patricia Smith | Winner | [14] |
| My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter | Aja Monet | Finalist | [14] | |
| Silencer | Marcus Wicker | |||
| The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water | Cameron Barnett | |||
| Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems | Ntozake Shange | |||
| 2019 | Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart | Alice Walker | Winner | [15] |
| Confessions of a Barefaced Woman | Allison Elaine Joseph | Finalist | [15] | |
| Ghost, Like a Place | Iain Haley Pollock | |||
| Refuse | Julian Randall | |||
| The Gospel According to Wild Indigo | Cyrus Cassells |
2020s
| Year | Book | Author | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Felon: Poems | Reginald Dwayne Betts | Winner | [16] |
| A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland | DaMaris B. Hill | Finalist | [16] | |
| Honeyfish | Lauren K. Alleyne | |||
| Mistress | Chet'la Sebree | |||
| The Tradition | Jericho Brown | |||
| 2021 | The Age of Phillis | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | Winner | [17][18] |
| Homie | Danez Smith | Finalist | [17][19] | |
| Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry | John Murillo | |||
| Seeing the Body | Rachel Eliza Griffiths | |||
| Un-American | Hafizah Geter | |||
| 2022 | Perfect Black | Crystal Wilkinson | Winner | [20][21] |
| Playlist for the Apocalypse | Rita Dove | Finalist | [20] | |
| Such Color: New and Selected Poems | Tracy K. Smith | |||
| The Wild Fox of Yemen | Threa Almontaser | |||
| What Water Knows: Poems | Jacqueline Jones LaMon | |||
| 2023 | To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness | Robin Coste Lewis | Winner | [22] |
| Best Barbarian | Roger Reeves | Finalist | [23] | |
| Bluest Nude | Ama Codjoe | |||
| Concentrate | Courtney Faye Taylor | |||
| Muse Found in a Colonized Body | Yesenia Montilla | |||
| 2024 | suddenly we | Evie Shockley | Winner | [24] |
| Above Ground | Clint Smith | Finalist | [25] | |
| So to Speak | Terrance Hayes | |||
| The Ferguson Report: An Erasure | Nicole Sealey | |||
| Why Fathers Cry at Night | Kwame Alexander |
Multiple wins and nominations
Wins
- 3 wins
Nominations
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