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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[edit]

2000s[edit]

Award winners and finalists, 2007-2009
Year Book Author Result Ref.
2007 Celebrations, Rituals of Peace and Prayer Maya Angelou Winner [1]
Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees DuEwa Frazier Finalist [1]
Hoops Major Jackson
Jazz Walter Dean Myers
We Speak Your Names Pearl Cleage
2008 Acolytes: Poems Nikki Giovanni Winner [2]
Duende: Poems Tracy K. Smith Finalist [3]
Eloquence: Rhythm and Renaissance Usi Ku
Quiver of Arrows Carl Phillips
Selected Poems Derek Walcott
2009 —

2010s[edit]

Award winners and finalists, 2010-2019
Year Book Author Result Ref.
2010 Bicycles Nikki Giovanni Winner [4]
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Camille Dungy Finalist [5]
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 Winner [6]
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing Alice Walker Finalist
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 Winner [7]
Head Off & Split Nikky Finney Finalist [7]
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 Winner [8]
Hurrah's Nest Arisa White Finalist [8]
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 Winner [9]
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid Nikki Giovanni Finalist [9]
Hum Jamaal May
The Cineaste: Poems A. Van Jordan
The Collected Poems of Ai Ai
2015 Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine Winner [10]
Digest Gregory Pardlo Finalist [10]
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 Winner [11][12]
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude Ross Gay Finalist [11]
Reconnaissance Carl Phillips
Redbone Mahogany L. Browne
Wild Hundreds Nate Marshall
2017 Collected Poems: 1974 — 2004 Rita Dove Winner [13]
Counting Descent Clint Smith Finalist [13]
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 Winner [14]
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Aja Monet Finalist [14]
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 Winner [15]
Confessions of a Barefaced Woman Allison Elaine Joseph Finalist [15]
Ghost, Like a Place Iain Haley Pollock
Refuse Julian Randall
The Gospel According to Wild Indigo Cyrus Cassells

2020s[edit]

Award winners and finalists, 2020-present
Year Book Author Result Ref.
2020 Felon: Poems Reginald Dwayne Betts Winner [16]
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland DaMaris B. Hill Finalist [16]
Honeyfish Lauren K. Alleyne
Mistress Chet'la Sebree
The Tradition Jericho Brown
2021 The Age of Phillis Honorée Jeffers Winner [17][18]
Homie Danez Smith Finalist [17][19]
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry John Murillo
Seeing the Body Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Un-American Hafizah Geter
2022 Perfect Black Crystal Wilkinson Winner [20][21]
Playlist for the Apocalypse Rita Dove Finalist [20]
Such Color: New and Selected Poems Tracy K. Smith
The Wild Fox of Yemen Threa Almontaser
What Water Knows: Poems Jacqueline Jones LaMon
2023 To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness Robin Coste Lewis Winner [22]
Best Barbarian Roger Reeves Finalist [23]
Bluest Nude Ama Codjoe
Concentrate Courtney Faye Taylor
Muse Found in a Colonized Body Yesenia Montilla
2024 suddenly we Evie Shockley Winner [24]
Above Ground Clint Smith Finalist [25]
So to Speak Terrance Hayes
The Ferguson Report: An Erasure Nicole Sealey
Why Fathers Cry at Night Kwame Alexander

Multiple wins and nominations[edit]

Wins[edit]

3 wins

Nominations[edit]

References[edit]

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