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
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s
| Year | Work | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | |||
| Celebrations, Rituals of Peace and Prayer | Maya Angelou | [1] | |
| Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees | DuEwa M. Frazier | ||
| Hoops | Major Jackson | ||
| Jazz | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| We Speak Your Names | Pearl Cleage | ||
| 2008 | |||
| Acolytes: Poems | Nikki Giovanni | [2] | |
| Duende: Poems | Tracy K. Smith | ||
| Eloquence: Rhythm and Renaissance | Usi Ku | ||
| Quiver of Arrows | Carl Phillips | ||
| Selected Poems | Derek Walcott | ||
| 2009 | — | ||
2010s
| Year | Work | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | |||
| Bicycles | Nikki Giovanni | [3] | |
| Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry | Camille Dungy | ||
| 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 | [4] | |
| Hard Times Require Furious Dancing | Alice Walker | ||
| 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 | [5] | |
| Head Off & Split | Nikky Finney | ||
| 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 | [6] | |
| Hurrah's Nest | Arisa White | ||
| 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 | [7] | |
| Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid | Nikki Giovanni | ||
| Hum | Jamaal May | ||
| The Cineaste: Poems | A. Van Jordan | ||
| The Collected Poems of Ai | Ai | ||
| 2015 | |||
| Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | [8] | |
| Digest | Gregory Pardlo | ||
| 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 | [9] | |
| Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Ross Gay | ||
| Reconnaissance | Carl Phillips | ||
| Redbone | Mahogany L. Browne | ||
| Wild Hundreds | Nate Marshall | ||
| 2017 | |||
| Collected Poems: 1974 — 2004 | Rita Dove | [10] | |
| Counting Descent | Clint Smith | ||
| 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 | [11] | |
| My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter | Aja Monet | ||
| 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 | [12] | |
| Confessions of a Barefaced Woman | Allison Elaine Joseph | ||
| Ghost, Like a Place | Iain Haley Pollock | ||
| Refuse | Julian Randall | ||
| The Gospel According to Wild Indigo | Cyrus Cassells |
2020s
| Year | Work | Author | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||
| Felon: Poems | Reginald Dwayne Betts | [13] | |
| A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland | DaMaris B. Hill | ||
| Honeyfish | Lauren K. Alleyne | ||
| Mistress | Chet'la Sebree | ||
| The Tradition | Jericho Brown | ||
| 2021 | |||
| The Age of Phillis | Honorée Jeffers | [14] | |
| Homie | Danez Smith | ||
| Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry | John Murillo | ||
| Seeing the Body | Rachel Eliza Griffiths | ||
| Un-American | Hafizah Geter |
Multiple wins and nominations
Wins
- 3 wins
Nominations
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References
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- ^ "2008 Image Awards". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ "2010 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ "2011 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ^ "2016 Image Winners". Variety. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ^ Lewis, Hilary; Washington, Arlene (February 10, 2017). "2017 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
- ^ "NAACP Image Awards: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. January 14, 2018.
- ^ Lewis, Hilary (February 13, 2019). "NAACP Image Awards: 'Black Panther' Tops Film Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Schaffstall, Katherine; Howard, Annie (February 22, 2020). "NAACP Image Awards: Lizzo Named Entertainer of the Year; 'Just Mercy,' 'Black-ish' Among Top Winners". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Bosselman, Haley (March 28, 2021). "NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List". Variety.