Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

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The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is an American prize that is one of the world's most lucrative poetry awards. It is presented to an emerging poet who has not yet received great fame or success, but who does have 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 created the smaller Kate Tufts Discovery Award which goes to a first time poet.

Winners:

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

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  • [1]Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award & Kate Tufts Discovery Award home page