Awards & Winners

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry

NAACP Image Award

The NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry is an award category for the annual NAACP Image awards.

Check all the winners of NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry presented under NAACP Image Award since 2007 .


Frank X Walker

Honored for : Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Frank X Walker Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Nikki Giovanni Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
A. Van Jordan The Cineaste: Poems
Jamaal May Hum
Ai The Collected Poems of Ai
Roslynn O'Carroll The Collected Poems of Ai

Truth Thomas

Honored for : Speak Water

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Truth Thomas Speak Water
Arisa White Hurrah's Nest
Marcus Wicker Maybe the Saddest Thing
Rowan Ricardo Phillips The Ground: Poems
Natasha Trethewey Thrall: Poems

James B. Golden

Honored for : Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
James B. Golden Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems
Nikky Finney Head Off & Split
Haki R. Madhubuti Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice
Anna Saunders Intimate Thoughts
Darrin DeWitt Henson Intimate Thoughts
Jacqueline Jones Lamon Last Seen

Nikki Giovanni

Honored for : 100 Best African-American Poems
(Sourcebooks MediaFusion)

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nikki Giovanni 100 Best African-American Poems
Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Alice Walker Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
New World Library
Shiloh McCloud Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
New World Library
Major Jackson Holding Company
W.W. Norton & Company
Camille Dungy Suck on the Marrow
Red Hen Press
Derek Walcott White Egrets
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nikki Giovanni

Honored for : Bicycles
(William Morrow)

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nikki Giovanni Bicycles
William Morrow
Camille Dungy Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
The University of Georgia Press
Mitchell L. H. Douglas Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem
Red Hen Press
Adrian Matejka Mixology
Penguin Group
Melba Joyce Boyd Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall
Wayne State University Press

Nikki Giovanni

Honored for : Acolytes: Poems
(Harper Collins/William Morrow)

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nikki Giovanni Acolytes: Poems
Harper Collins/William Morrow
Tracy K. Smith Duende
Gray Wolf Press
Usi Ku Eloquence: Rhythm and Renaissance
UsiKu.net
Carl Phillips Quiver of Arrows
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Derek Walcott Selected Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nikki Giovanni

Honored for : Acolytes: Poems

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nikki Giovanni Acolytes: Poems
Tracy K. Smith Duende: Poems
Usi Ku Eloquence: Rhythm and Renaissance
Carl Phillips Quiver of Arrows
Derek Walcott Selected poems

Maya Angelou

Honored for : Celebrations, Rituals of Peace and Prayer

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Maya Angelou Celebrations, Rituals of Peace and Prayer
DuEwa Frazier Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees
Major Jackson Hoops
Walter Dean Myers Jazz
Pearl Cleage We speak your names