NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry

This page 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 N/A

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


Multiple wins and nominations

Wins
3 wins

Nominations

References
  1. "2007 Image Awards". AALBC. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  2. "2008 Image Awards". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
  3. "2010 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
  4. "2011 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
  5. Allin, Olivia. "2012 Image Award Winners". ABC7. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
  6. Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
  7. Couch, Aaron; Washington, Arlene (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
  8. Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
  9. "2016 Image Winners". Variety. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
  10. Lewis, Hilary; Washington, Arlene (February 10, 2017). "2017 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
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