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
04/21/2022
What a magical night it was! Last night was the 2022 Award Ceremony to honor Divya Victor & torrin a. greathouse. Join us tonight @ the Los Angeles Public Library for a reading, reception & book signing by these amazing poets. FREE ADMISSION. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-kingsley-kate-tufts-poetry-awards-reading-reception-tickets-259860869857
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/
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/
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/
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
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/
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/
04/01/2022
"May poets and poetry flourish" on this first day of National Poetry Month! The Call for Entries for the 2023 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is NOW OPEN!
https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/about/eligibility/
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/
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/
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/