2024

Paisley Rekdal (West: A Translation, Copper Canyon Press) is the winner of the $100,000 Kinglsey Tufts Award, and Jacqui Germain (Bittering the Wound, Autumn House Press) is the winner of the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Read more about both award recipients.

This year’s award recipients will read their works on April 17 from 6:00 pm at A Noise Within Theatre, located at 3352 E Foothill Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107. This will be followed by a book sale and signing, and reception.

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2022

 


(Left photo) Divya Victor, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
(Right photo) torrin a. greathouse, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
The 2022 award ceremony and reading took place on April 20, 2022 at the home of CGU President, Len Jessup.

Video of the April 2022 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Reading

2021

 

2020


Tiana Clark, winner of the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, returned to Claremont to celebrate her award along with the 2022 winners. A special award celebration and reading took place on April 19, 2022 at the Benton Museum of Art of Pomona College to honor the 2020 & 2021 Tufts Poetry recipients.

2019

Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Diana Khoi Nguyen and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Dawn Lundy Martin pose at the April 2019 Awards ceremony

More photos from the April 2019 Awards Ceremony and Reading

Video of the April 2019 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Reading

 

2018

Patricia Smith receives the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Incendiary Art in Claremont, CA.

More photos from the April 2018 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony

Video of the April 2018 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Reading

 

2017

Phillip B. Williams standing next to Vievee Francis behind podium
Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Phillip B. Williams and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Vievee Francis at the 2017 Awards Ceremony in downtown Los Angeles.

More photos from the April 2017 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony

Podcast of the April 2017 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony and Reading

2016

Tufts administrators and winners at the CGU President's house after the April 2016 ceremony
Dean Tammi J. Schneider, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Ross Gay, Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Danez Smith, and Tufts Director Lori Anne Ferrell after the awards ceremony in April 2016.

Video of the April 2016 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony and Reading

2015

2015 administration and winners pose at the CGU Presiden'ts house
Dean Tammi J. Schneider, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Angie Estes, Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Brandon Som, and Tufts Director Wendy Martin after the awards ceremony in April 2015.

Video of the April 2015 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony and Reading

2014

2014 administrators and winners stand in the living room of the CGU President's house
Tufts Director Wendy Martin, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Afaa M. Weaver, Kate Tufts Discovery Award winner Yona Harvey, and Dean Tammi J. Schneider after the awards ceremony in April 2014.

Video of the April 2014 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony and Reading

2013

Video of the April 2013 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony and Reading

2012

Video of the April 2012 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony and Reading

2011

Video of the April 2011 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony and Reading

2010

Video of the April 2011 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony and Reading