The Thom Gunn Award is an annual literary award, presented by

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to honour works of

gay male Gay men are male homosexuals. Some bisexual and homoromantic men may also dually identify as gay, and a number of young gay men also identify as queer. Historically, gay men have been referred to by a number of different terms, including ' ...

poetry. First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of American poet

Thom Gunn Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, even after moving towards a looser, ...

, the award's first winner, following his death in 2004.

Winners

*2001 —

, ''Boss Cupid'' *2002 —

Mark Doty Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work ''My Alexandria.'' He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Early life Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee to Lawrence an ...

, ''Source'' *2003 — Greg Hewett, ''Red Suburb'' *2004 — Brian Teare, ''The Room Where I Was Born'' *2005 —

Carl Phillips Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Early life Phillips was born in Everett, Washington. He was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year unti ...

, ''The Rest of Love'' *2006 —

Richard Siken Richard Siken (born February 15, 1967) is a North-American poet, painter, and filmmaker. He is the author of the collection '' Crush'' (Yale University Press, 2005), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. His second book o ...

, ''Crush'' *2007 —

Justin Chin Justin Chin (1969–2015) was a Malaysian-American poet, essayist and performer. In his work he often dealt with queer Asian-American identity and interrogated this category's personal and political circumstances. Biography Chin was born in Mala ...

, ''Gutted'' *2008 — Steve Fellner, ''Blind Date with Cavafy'' and Daniel Hall, ''Under Sleep'' *2009 — Ely Shipley, ''Boy with Flower'' *2010 —

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, ''Poems of the Black Object'' *2011 — Michael Walsh, ''The Dirt Riddles'' *2012 —

Henri Cole Henri Cole (born 1956) is an American poet, who has published many collections of poetry and a memoir. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Arabic. Biography Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an Amer ...

, ''Touch'' *2013 —

Richard Blanco Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author and civil engineer. He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem " One Today" for Barack Obama's second ...

, ''Looking for the Gulf Motel'' *2014 —

Charlie Bondhus Michael McKeown Bondhus (born Charlie, 1981) is an American poet and author of four books. His second book, ''All the Heat We Could Carry'', was the winner of the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, an ...

, ''All the Heat We Could Carry''"Do ask, do tell: Poetry collection about U.S. soldier wins gay literary award"
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'', April 25, 2014. *2015 —

Jericho Brown Jericho Brown (born April 14, 1976) is an American poet and writer. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown has worked as an educator at institutions such as University of Houston, San Diego State University, and Emory University. His poe ...

, ''The New Testament'' *2016 —

Rick Barot Rick Barot (born February 19, 1969) is an American poet and educator. Life Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He ha ...

, ''Chord'' *2017 —

Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong (born , ; October 14, 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. Vuong is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T.S. Eliot P ...

, ''Night Sky with Exit Wounds'' *2018 —

Chen Chen Chen Chen (born March 9, 1989) is a Chinese-American poet. His book, ''When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities'', has been longlisted for the 2017 National Book Awards. Chen has served as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at ...

, ''When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities'' *2019 —

Hieu Minh Hieu was a 7th-century Irish abbess who worked in Northumbria. She was foundress of abbeys at Hartlepool and Healaugh in Yorkshire England. Hieu was also the first of the saintly recluses of Northumbria, and the first known woman to rule a dou ...

, ''Not Here'' *2020 — Sam Ross, ''Company'' *2021 — Mark Bibbins, ''13th Balloon'' *2022 — John Keene, ''Punks''"Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction"
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'', May 11, 2022.

References

External links

* Triangle Awards American poetry awards Awards established in 2001 LGBT poetry {{lit-award-stub