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2025
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Jaswinder Bolina, English as a Second Language
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists
Victoria Chang, With my Back to the World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the U.S. and Corsair/Little, Brown in the U.K.)
Romeo Oriogun, The Gathering of Bastards (University of Nebraska Press)
Gregory Pardlo, Spectral Evidence (Knopf)
Sasha West, How to Abandon Ship (Four Way Books)
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Ariana Benson, Black Pastoral
Kate Tufts Discovery Award FINALISTS
Sarah Ghazal Ali, Theophanies (Alice James Books)
Alisha Dietzman, Sweet Movie (Beacon Press)
Elisa Gonzalez, Grand Tour (FSG)
Alison Thumel, Architect (University of Arkansas Press)
2024
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Paisley Rekdal, West: A Translation
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalists
Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco/Harper Collins)
John Lee Clark, How To Communicate (W.W.Norton)
Charif Shanahan, Trace Evidence (Tin House)
Claire Wahmanholm, Meltwater (Milkweed Books)
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Jacqui Germain, Bittering the Wound
Kate Tufts Discovery Award FINALISTS
Paul Hlava Ceballos, banana [] (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press)
Ama Codjoe, Bluest Nude (Milkweed Books)
K. Iver, Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco (Milkweed Books)
Arthur Kayzakian, The Book of Redacted Paintings (Black Lawrence Press)
2023
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Roger Reeves, Best Barbarian
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists
Julie Hanson, Unbeknownst
Shane McCrae, Mule
2011
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Chase Twichell, Horses Where Answers Should Have Been
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
Kate Tufts Discovery Award Finalists
John Murillo, Up Jump the Boogie
Melissa Range, Horse and Rider
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Christian Hawkey, The Book of Funnels
2005
2004
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Adrian Blevins, The Brass Girl Brouhaha
2003
2002
2001
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Alan Shapiro, The Dead Alive and Busy
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender
2000
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Terrance Hayes, Muscular Music
1999
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
B.H.Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe
1998
1997
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Campbell McGrath, Spring Comes to Chicago
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Lucia Perillo, The Body Mutinies
1996
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Barbara Hamby, Delirium
1995
1994
1993
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Susan Mitchell, Rapture
