GenPop Books is delighted to announce that Michael Klein’s then, we were still living has been named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Congratulations, Michael!

Another finalist, in the category of Lesbian Fiction, is GenPop Magazine contributor Carol Guess’s Homeschooling, from PS Press. Congrats, Carol!

In addition to then, we were still living by Michael Klein (GenPop Books), other finalists for Gay Poetry are darkacre, by Greg Hewett (Coffee House Press); Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Pleasure, by Brian Teare (Ahsahta Press); and The Salt Ecstasies: Poems, by James L. White (The Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series).

Tickets for the Lambda Literary Awards ceremony and After-Party go on sale today. The ceremony will be held Thursday, May 26, 2011 at the School of Visual Arts Theater in New York City (333 W. 23rd St), followed by a private after-party nearby. For information: www.lambdaliterary.org/awards. For the complete list of Finalists on the Lambda website: www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/2011-finalists