Claremont Graduate University's Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

Claremont Graduate University's Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards CGU's $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award & $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award are given for books published the preceding year. July 1 annual deadline. A.

The Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry awards – based at Claremont Graduate University – are not only two of the most prestigious prizes a contemporary poet can receive, they also come with hefty purses: $100,000 for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and $10,000 for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. This makes the Kingsley Tufts award the world’s largest monetary prize for a single collection of poetry. And

for most poets who have just published their first collection of verse, $10,000 should keep the pen scribbling. Kingsley Tufts Award Winners:
2017: Vievee Francis, Forest Primeval
2016: Ross Gay, catalog of unabashed gratitude
2015: Angie Estes, Enchantee
2014: Afaa Michael Weaver, The Government of Nature
2013: Marianne Boruch, The Book of Hours
2012: Timothy Donnelly, The Cloud Corporation
2011: Chase Twichell, Horses Where Answers Should Have Been
2010: D. 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

Kate Tufts Award Winners:
2017: Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior
2016: Danez Smith, [insert] boy
2015: Brandon Som, The Tribute Horse
2014: Yona Harvey, Hemming the Water
2013: Heidy Steidlmayer, Fowling Piece
2012: Katherine Larson, Radial Symmetry
2011: Atsuro Riley, Romey's Order
2010: Beth Bachmann, Temper
2009: Matthew Dickman, All-American Poem
2008: Janice N. Harrington, Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone
2007: Eric McHenry, Potscrubber Lullabies
2006: Christian Hawkey, The Book of Funnels
2005: Patrick Phillips, Chattahoochee
2004: Adrian Blevins, The Brass Girl Brouhaha
2003: Joanie Mackowski, The Zoo
2002: Cate Marvin, World's Tallest Disaster
2001: Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender
2000: Terrance Hayes, Muscular Music
1999: Barbara Ras, Bite Every Sorrow
1998: Charles Harper Webb, Reading the Water
1997: Lucia Perillo, The Body Mutinies
1996: Barbara Hamby, Delirium
1995: Doug Anderson, The Moon Reflected Fire
1994: Catherine Bowman, 1-800-HOT-RIBS

2021: Celebrating the 28th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets. “becomi...
04/08/2022

2021: Celebrating the 28th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets. “becoming a man / means knowing how to become charcoal // staccato of ash / holding a match to their skin // trying not to light themselves on fire” (p.20) https://jakeskeets.com/

2021: Celebrating the 29th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo “Learn to lose as ...
04/08/2022

2021: Celebrating the 29th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo “Learn to lose as if / your life depended on it. / Learn that your life depends on it. / Learn it like karate, like riding a bike” (9) https://www.johnmurillo.com/

2020: Celebrating the 27th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark. “It ...
04/06/2022

2020: Celebrating the 27th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark. “It rained inside me / it is raining inside my neck / the rain falls in sheets inside long sheets inside” (p.32) http://www.tianaclark.com/

2020: Celebrating the 28th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: A Sandbook by Ariana Reines “after the rain hit / the creosote ...
04/06/2022

2020: Celebrating the 28th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: A Sandbook by Ariana Reines “after the rain hit / the creosote the sun / hit it & a fragrance / wild & sweet was hitting / me, a springtime / sensation of rising seed” (81) https://www.arianareines.net/about

2019: Celebrating the 26th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen. “These are the tiles from his mother...
04/04/2022

2019: Celebrating the 26th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen. “These are the tiles from his mother’s house, cool / against my cheek. I talk to him in one tongue, / he answers from the morgue.” (p.22) https://dianakhoinguyen.com/

2019: Celebrating the 27th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Good Stock Strange Blood by Dawn Lundy Martin “But there is no ...
04/04/2022

2019: Celebrating the 27th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Good Stock Strange Blood by Dawn Lundy Martin “But there is no escape. The material is always the same. Yet, it is / malleable. To mutate is to live” (99) http://www.dawnlundymartin.com/about/

2018: Celebrating the 25th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Bestiary by Donika Kelly. “I know him / by his hands. But how am I...
04/01/2022

2018: Celebrating the 25th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Bestiary by Donika Kelly. “I know him / by his hands. But how am I child? / And this wall against my back, how long / has it been a wall?” (p.19) https://www.donikakelly.com/

2018: Celebrating the 26th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith “You can name yourself a man, ...
04/01/2022

2018: Celebrating the 26th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith “You can name yourself a man, walk taut and tall and will your voice / to stomp, but still be upended by demons, ain’t that something?” (31) http://www.wordwoman.ws/

2017: Celebrating the 24th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams. “I was told to believ...
03/30/2022

2017: Celebrating the 24th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams. “I was told to believe in and became that / single vessel beneath which water I would never taste / moved. I was shut tight. I was going somewhere / and quickly. // Little boat. // Little boat made smaller by distance.” (p1) https://www.phillipbwilliams.com/

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