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2023

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Roger Reeves, Best Barbarian

Roger Reeves

 

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Hayan Charara, These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit (Milkweed Editions)
Cynthia Cruz, Hotel Oblivion (Four Way Books)
Joan Naviyuk Kane, Dark Traffic (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Solmaz Sharif, Customs (Graywolf Press)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Robert Wood Lynn, Mothman Apologia
Robert Wood Lynn

 

Kate Tufts Discovery Award FINALISTS

Kemi Alabi, Against Heaven (Graywolf Press)
Aurielle Marie, Gumbo Ya Ya (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin)
Michael Wasson, Swallowed Light (Copper Canyon Press)

2022

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Divya Victor, CURB

Divya Victor

 

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

francine j. harris, Here is the sweet hand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Douglas Kearney, Sho (Wave Books)
Hoa Nguyen, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books)
Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
torrin a. greathouse

 
 

Kate Tufts Discovery Award FINALISTS

Threa Almontaser, The Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press)
Desiree C. Bailey, What Noise Against the Cane (Yale University Press)
Diamond Forder, Mother Body (Saturnalia Books)
Benjamin Garcia, Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed Editions)

2021

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

JOHN MURILLO, KONTEMPORARY AMERIKAN POETRY

John Murillo

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, A Treatise on Stars
(New Directions Books)
T’ai Freedom Ford & More Black
(Augury Books)
Joyelle McSweeney, Toxicon and Arachne
(Nightboat Books)
Tommy Pico, Feed
(Tin House Books)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

JAKE SKEETS, eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers
Jake Skeets
Kate Tufts Discovery Award FINALISTS

Zaina Alsous, A Theory of Birds
(University of Arkansas Press)
Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue
(Four Way Books)
Roy G. Guzmán, Catrachos
(Graywolf Press)
Su Hwang, Bodega
(Milkweed Editions)

2020

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Ariana Reines, A Sand Book

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Monica Ferrell, You Darling Thing
(Four Way Books)
Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
(Graywolf Press)
Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón
(Copper Canyon Press)
Brian Teare, Doomstead Days
(Nightboat Books)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Tiana Clark, I CAn’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
Kate Tufts Discovery Award FINALISTS

Ángel García, Teeth Never Sleep
(University of Arkansas Press)
Valencia Robin, Ridiculous Light
(Persea Books)
Ashley Toliver, Spectra
(Coffee House Press)
Emily Jungmin Yoon, A Cruelty Special to Our Species
(Ecco/Harper Collins)

2019

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

DAWN LUNDY MARTIN, GOOD STOCK, STRANGE BLOOD

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

CAConrad, While Standing in Line for Death
(Wave Books)
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
(Penguin Books)
Brenda Hillman, Extra Hidden Life, among the Days
(Wesleyan University Press)
Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [lukao]
(Omnidawn Publishing)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of

Diana Khoi Nguyen

Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists

Tyree Daye, River Hymns
(American Poetry Review Press)
Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency
(Coffee House Press)
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Beast Meridian
(Noemi Press)
Javier Zamora, Unaccompanied
(Copper Canyon Press)

2018

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

PATRICIA SMITH, IncENDIARY ART: Poems

Patricia Smith

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Kathy Fagan, Sycamore
(Milkweed)
Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons
(FSG)
Paisley Rekdal, Imaginary Vessels
(Copper Canyon Press)
Monica Youn, Blackacre
(Graywolf Press)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

DONIKA KELLY, Bestiary

Donika Kelly

Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists

Ari Banias, Anybody
(W.W. Norton)
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas
(Graywolf)
Tommy Pico, IRL
(Birds, LLC)
Mai Der Vang, Afterland
(Graywolf)

2017

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Vievee Francis, forest primeval

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Tyehimba Jess, Olio
(Wave Books)
Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things
(Milkweed)
Jamaal May, The Big Book of Exit Strategies
(Alice James Books)
Patrick Rosal, Brooklyn Antediluvian
(Persea Books)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior

Phillip B. Williams

Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists

Derrick Austin, Trouble the Water
(BOA Editions)
Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn
(University of Pittsburgh Press)
Jordan Rice, Constellarium
(Orison Books)
Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
(Copper Canyon Press)

2016

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Kyle Dargan, Honest Engine
(University of Georgia Press)
Amy Gerstler, Scattered at Sea
(Penguin)
Fred Moten, The Little Edges
(Wesleyan)
Jennifer Moxley, The Open Secret
(Flood Editions)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Danez Smith, [insert] boy

Danez Smith

Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists

Meg Day, Last Psalm at Sea Level
(Barrow Street)
Bethany Schultz Hurst, Miss Lost Nation
(Anhinga Press)
Michael Morse, Void and Compensation
(Canarium)
Henry Walters, Field Guide A Tempo
(Hobblebush Books)

2015

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Angie Estes, Enchantée

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Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion
(Knopf)
Laura Kasischke, The Infinitesimals
(Copper Canyon Press)
Mark Wunderlich, The Earth Avails
(Graywolf Press)
Kevin Young, Book of Hours
(Knopf)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Brandon Som, The Tribute Horse

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists

David J. Daniels, Clean
(Four Way Books)
Hailey Leithauser, Swoop
(Graywolf Press)
Jamaal May, Hum
(Alice James Books)
Roger Reeves, King Me
(Copper Canyon Press)

2014

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Afaa Michael Weaver, The Government of Nature

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Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda
(Copper Canyon)
Brian Teare, Companion Grasses
(Omnidawn)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Yona Harvey, Hemming the Water

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists

Kim Young, Night Radio
(University of Utah Press)
Leila Wilson, The Hundred Grasses
(Milkweed Editions)

2013

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Marianne Boruch, The Book of Hours

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Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Blood Prism
(Ohio State University Press)
Paisley Rekdal, Animal Eye
(University of Pittsburgh Press)

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Heidy Steidlmayer, Fowling Piece

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists

Rebecca Morgan Frank, Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Press)
francine j. harris, Allegiance
(Wayne State University Press)

2012

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Timothy Donnelly, The Cloud Corporation

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Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

Ed Roberson, To See the Earth Before the End of the World
Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Katherine Larson, Radial Symmetry

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists

Julie Hanson, Unbeknownst
Shane McCrae, Mule

2011

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Chase Twichell, Horses Where Answers Should Have Been

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Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists

David Baker, Never-Ending Birds
Bob Hicok, Words for Empty and Words for Full

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Atsuro Riley, Romey’s Order

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists

John Murillo, Up Jump the Boogie
Melissa Range, Horse and Rider

2010

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

D.A. Powell, Chronic

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Beth Bachmann, Temper

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2009

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Matthea Harvey, Modern Life

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Matthew Dickman, All-American Poem

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2008

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Tom Sleigh, Space Walk

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Janice N. Harrington, Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone

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2007

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Rodney Jones, Salvation Blues

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Eric McHenry, Potscrubber Lullabies

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2006

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Christian Hawkey, The Book of Funnels

2005

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Michael Ryan, New and Selected Poems

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Patrick Phillips, Chattahoochee

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2004

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Henri Cole, Middle Earth

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Adrian Blevins, The Brass Girl Brouhaha

2003

Kingsley Tufts Award

Linda Gregerson, Waterborne

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Joanie Mackowski, The Zoo

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2002

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Carl Phillips, The Tether

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Cate Marvin, World’s Tallest Disaster

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2001

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Alan Shapiro, The Dead Alive and Busy

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender

2000

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Robert Wrigley, Reign of Snakes

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Terrance Hayes, Muscular Music

1999

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

B.H.Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Barbara Ras, Bite Every Sorrow

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1998

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

John Koethe, Falling Water

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Charles Harper Webb, Reading the Water

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1997

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Campbell McGrath, Spring Comes to Chicago

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Lucia Perillo, The Body Mutinies

1996

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Deborah Digges, Rough Music

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Barbara Hamby, Delirium

1995

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Thomas Lux, Split Horizon

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Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Doug Anderson, The Moon Reflected Fire

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1994

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

CATHERINE BOWMAN, 1-800-HOT-RIBS

1993

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Susan Mitchell, Rapture

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