The Lambda Literary Award Finalists in Poetry are:

Blackbird and Wolf, Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering, Dawn Lundy Martin (University of Georgia Press)
Otherwise Obedient, Carol Potter (Red Hen Press)
Fata Morgana, Reginald Shepherd (University of Pittsburgh)
The Second Person, C. Dale Young (Four Way Books)
Human Resources, Rachel Zolf (Coach House Books)

It's a strong list. Congratulations to you all! (~I am so jealous.)

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This Basic Instructions comic is funny as hell: "Poetry is the most challenging of all the 'useless arts'". HAHAHA(click image to enlarge)