The 2019 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards judging panel — Timothy Donnelly, Sandy Solomon, Khadijah Queen, Cathy Park Hong, and Luis Rodriguez — met this past week to conclude their finalist deliberations, and we are happy to announce the ten finalists for the 2019 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards:

The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is given annually for a book by a poet in mid-career. Finalists for 2019 are:

• CAConrad, While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books)
• Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin (Penguin)
• Brenda Hillman, Extra Hidden Life, among the Days (Wesleyan University Press)
• Dawn Lundy Martin, Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee House Press)
• Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [lukao] (Omnidawn Publishing)

The Kate Tufts Discovery Award is given annually for a first book by a poet of genuine promise. Finalists for 2019 are:

• Tyree Daye, River Hymns (American Poetry Review Press)
• Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of (Omnidawn Publishing)
• Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency (Coffee House Press)
• Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Beast Meridian (Noemi Press)
• Javier Zamora, Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press)

You can read CGU’s press release here. And, stay tuned — we’ll be announcing the 2019 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Award winners in late February 2019.