D.A. Powell Wins $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Posted on February 9, 2010

Claremont Graduate University has announced D.A. Powell won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Beth Bachmann won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The Kingsley Tufts prize was established in 1992 to honor work by a midcareer poet. The Kate Tufts Award is given to a poet for their first book of poetry.

D.A. Powell's books include Tea, Lunch and Cocktails. His most recent book, Chronic: Poems, is also a finalist for the NBCC Award in Poetry, and was named a Best Book of 2009 by Publishers Weekly and the Kansas City Star.

Beth Bachmann won the Kate Tufts Award for her first book of poetry, Temper.

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