The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, based at Claremont Graduate University, is an American prize and known as one of the world's most lucrative poetry awards. It is presented to a mid-career, emerging poet who possesses an established body of work. The winner of the award receives $100,000. The award was created by Kate Tufts in honour of her late husband Kingsley Tufts. She also established the Kate Tufts Discovery Award which bestows $10,000 to a first time poet.
Recipients:
| 2011: | Chase Twichell | Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been |
| 2010: | D. A. Powell | Chronic |
| 2009: | Matthea Harvey | Modern Life |
| 2008: | Tom Sleigh | Space Walk |
| 2007: | Rodney Jones | Salvation Blues |
| 2006: | Lucia Perillo | Luck Is Luck |
| 2005: | Michael Ryan | New and Selected Poems |
| 2004: | Henri Cole | Middle Earth |
| 2003: | Linda Gregerson | Waterborne |
| 2002: | Carl Phillips | The Tether |
| 2001: | Alan Shapiro | The Dead Alive and Busy |
| 2000: | Robert Wrigley | Reign of Snakes |
| 1999: | B.H. Fairchild | The Art of the Lathe |
| 1998: | John Koethe | Falling Water |
| 1997: | Campbell McGrath | Spring Comes to Chicago |
| 1996: | Deborah Digges | Rough Music |
| 1995: | Thomas Lux | Split Horizon |
| 1994: | Yusef Komunyakaa | Neon Vernacular |
| 1993: | Susan Mitchell | Rapture |
See also[]
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literature awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
External links[]
- [1] Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award & Kate Tufts Discovery Award home page
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