Poets Anna Swanson and Brian Teare were among the winners in last night’s Lambda Literary Awards. You an find a complete list of winners here. According to the Lambda Web site, “books from major mainstream publishers and from academic presses, from both long-established and brand new LGBT publishers, and even from emerging publish-on-demand technologies, make up the 114 finalists for the “Lammys.” The finalists were selected from a record number of nominations.”

Here are the poetry finalists:

Lesbian Poetry

The Inquisition Yours, by Jen Currin (Coach House Books)
Money for Sunsets, by Elizabeth J. Colen (Steel Toe Books)
The Nights Also, by Anna Swanson (Tightrope Books)
The Sensual World Re-Emerges, by Eleanor Lerman (Sarabande Books)
White Shirt, by Laurie MacFayden (Frontenac House)

Gay Poetry

darkacre, by Greg Hewett (Coffee House Press)
Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Pleasure, by Brian Teare (Ahsahta Press)
The Salt Ecstasies: Poems, by James L. White (Graywolf Press)
“then, we were still living”, by Michael Klein (GenPop Books)

According to its Web site, Lambda Literary Foundation’s mission “nurtures, celebrates, and preserves LGBT literature through programs that honor excellence, promote visibility and encourage development of emerging writers.”