NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
These are the winners for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry:. This award was first awarded in 2007.[1]
Winners
| Year | Writer | Work | Nominees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Maya Angelou | Celebrations, Rituals of Peace and Prayer[1] | DuEwa M. Frazier-"Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees'[1] Major Jackson-"Hoops" Walter Dean Myers-"Jazz" Pearl Cleage-"We Speak Your Names" |
| 2008 | Nikki Giovanni | Acolytes: Poems[2] | Tracy K. Smith-"Duende: Poems"[2] Usi Ku-"Eloquence: Rhythm and Renaissance" Carl Phillips-" Quiver of Arrows Derek Walcott-"Selected poems" |
| 2010 | Nikki Giovanni | Bicycles[3] | Camille Dungy-"Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry" Mitchell L. H. Douglas-"Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem" Adrian Matejka-"Mixology" Melba Joyce Boyd-"Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall" |
| 2011 | Nikki Giovanni | 100 Best African-American Poems[4] | Alice Walker-"Hard Times Require Furious Dancing"[4] Major Jackson-"Holding Company" Camille T. Dungy-"Suck on the Marrow" Derek Walcott-"White Egrets" |
| 2012 | James Golden | Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems[5] | Nikky Finney-"Head Off & Split"[5] -Haki Madhubuti-"Honoring Genius: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice" Darrin Henson-"Intimate Thoughts" Jacqueline Jones Lamon-"Last Seen" |
| 2013 | Truth Thomas | Speak Water[6] | Arisa White-"Hurrah's Nest"[4] Marcus Wicker-"Maybe the Saddest Thing" Rowan Ricardo Phillips-"The Ground" Natasha Trethewey-"Thrall" |
| 2014 | Frank X Walker | Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers[7] | Nikki Giovanni-"Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid" Jamaal May-"Hum" A. Van Jordan-"The Cineaste: Poems" Ai-"The Collected Poems of Ai" |
| 2015 | Claudia Rankine | Citizen: An American Lyric[8] | Gregory Pardlo-"Digest"[8] Jericho Brown-"The New Testament" Derek Walcott-"The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013" Brian Gilmore-"We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters" |
| 2016 | Terrance Hayes | How to Be Drawn[9] | Ross Gay-"Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude"[9] Carl Phillips-"Reconnaissance" Mahogany L. Browne-"Redbone" Nate Marshall-"Wild Hundreds" |
Most Wins and Nominations
Wins
- 3 (Nikki Giovanni)
Nominations
- 4 (Nikki Giovanni)
- 3 (Derek Walcott)
- 2 (Camille Dungy, Major Jackson, Carl Phillips)
References
- 1 2 3 "2007 Image Awards". AALBC. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
- 1 2 "2008 Image Awards". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ↑ "2010 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners.com. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- 1 2 3 "2011 Image Award Winners". Awardsandwinners.com. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- 1 2 Allin, Olivia. "2012 Image Award Winners". ABC7. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ↑ Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ↑ Couch, Aaron; Washington, Arlene (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- 1 2 Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- 1 2 "2016 Image Winners". Variety. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
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