Winners of the 2012 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Announced

Posted on February 2, 2012

Claremont Graduate University (CGU) has announced the winners of the 2012 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award carries a $100,000 cash prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award comes with a $10,000 prize. You can find out more about the annual awards here.

Timothy Donnelly of Brooklyn, New York, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book The Cloud Corporation (Wave, Picador). The Cloud Corporation is Donnelly’s second book. His first, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove), was published in 2003. This spring Donnelly is the Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing and Lewis Center for the Arts.

Katherine Larson, a molecular biologist and field ecologist from Tucson, Arizona, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her book of poetry, Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press). In addition to the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Larson's work has been honored by a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize.

Wendy Martin, director of the Tufts Poetry Award program, said in a statement, “these poets carry forward a tradition marked by distinguished past winners including Robert Wrigley, Tom Sleigh, Matthea Harvey, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Chase Twichell. CGU is proud to be able to make these important awards."