Lambda nominees

Lambda Literary Award nominations are out. Here are the nominees in poetry:

Nominees for LESBIAN POETRY (16)

• Inch Aeons by Nuala Archer (Les Figues Press)
• Collected Poems by Djuna Barnes (University of Wisconsin)
• Domain of Perfect Affection by Robin Becker (University of Pittsburgh)
• Days of Good Looks by Cheryl Clarke (Carroll & Graf)
• Like All We Love by Kate Evans (The Q Press)
• The Butterfly Effect by Susan Hawthorne (Spinifex Press)
• Sleeping Upside Down by Kate Lynn Hibbard (Silverfish Review Press
• Thirst by Mary Oliver (Beacon)
• The Truant Lover by Juliet Patterson (Nightboat Books)
• Lemon Hound by Sina Queyras (Coach House Books)
• First Person by Red Summer (Two Fingers Press)
• Not Just a Personal Ad by Vittoria Repetto (Guernica Editons)
• Hopeless Insomniac by Laura Riehman (Laura Riehman)
• Touch to Affliction by Nathalie Stephens (Coach House Books)
• What I Want From You edited by Linda Zeiser & Trena Machado (Raw Art Press)
• Emergency Contact by Tara-Michele Ziniuk (McGillian Books)

Nominees for GAY POETRY (14)

• But So Did Her Brother! by Brian Kevin Beck (Wonderside Productions)
• Gutted by Justin Chin (Manic D Press)
• Deviant Propulsion by CA Conrad (Soft Skull Press)
• The Album That Changed My Life by Jeffrey Conway (Cold Calm Press)
• A History of My Tattoo by Jim Elledge (Stonewall)
• The Burning of Troy by Richard Foerster (BOA)
• Other Fugitives & Other Strangers by Rigoberto Gonzalez (Tupelo Press)
• Sweet Son of Pan by Trebor Healey (Suspect Thoughts)
• The Eros Conspiracy by Greg Hewett (Coffee House Press)
• The Damaged Good by G. Winston James (Vintage Entity Press)
• On the Tongue by Jeff Mann (Gival Press)
• Riding Westward by Carl Philips (FSG)
• When the Eye Forms by Dwaine Rieves (Tupelo)
• Mirrors for Gold by Roberto Tejada (Krupskaya)

For nominations in the other categories, see the Lambda Foundation website.

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Word of the week: Whalefall.

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6 inches of snow and 19 degrees outside (considerably warmer than it was last night). I've managed to come down with a cold or flu or something, so I'll just be here shivering in my blankets for a while...