Congratulations to 2000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner Robert Wrigley

The purse for this award in the 2000 competition was $50,000.

And Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner Terrance A. Hayes

The purse for this award in the 2000 competition was $5,000.

The panel of judges for the 2000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards were:

Alice Quinn, chair & poetry editor of The New Yorker; B.H. Fairchild, poet, Professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, and past Kinglsey Tufts Award recipient; Carol Muske-Dukes, poet, critic, and professor of English at the University of Southern California; Charles H. Rowell, editor of Callaloo and professor of English at the University of Virginia; and Gary Soto, poet, memoirist, librettist, publisher and storyteller.

Preliminary judges for the competition were:

Robert Faggen, associate professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College, critic, and editor; Christopher Buckley, poet and chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside; and Gary Young, poet and freelance writer.

Previous Winners

Year	Kingsley Tufts Award	Kate Tufts Award
1999	B.H. Fairchild - The Art of the Lathe	Barbara Ras - Bite Every Sorrow
1998	John Koethe - Falling Water	Charles Harper - Webb
1997	Campbell McGrath - Spring Comes to Chicago	Lucia Perillo - The Body Mutinies
1996	Deborah Digges - Rough Music	Barbara Hamby - Delirium
1995	Thomas Lux - Split Horizon	Doug Anderson - The Moon Reflected Fire
1994	Yusef Komunyakaa - Neon Vernacular	Catherine Bowman - 1-800-HOT-RIBS
1993	Susan Mitchell - Rapture N/A

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Questions, comments, and entries for the current year may be submitted to:

Poetic Gallery for the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards
  Claremont Graduate University
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  Claremont, California 91711-6165
  (909) 621-8974

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