Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is an American prize that is one of the world's most lucrative poetry awards. It is presented to an emerging poet who has not yet received great fame or success, but who does have an established body of work. The winner of the award recieves $100 000. The award was created by Kate Tufts in honour of her late husband Kingsley Tufts. She also created the smaller Kate Tufts Discovery Award which goes to a first time poet.

Winners:

1993 - Susan Mitchell, Rapture
1994 - Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular
1995 - Thomas Lux, Split Horizon
1996 - Deborah Digges, Rough Music
1997 - Campbell McGrath, Spring Comes to Chicago
1998 - John Koethe, Falling Water
1999 - B.H.Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe
2000 - Robert Wrigley, Reign of Snakes
2001 - Alan Shapiro, The Dead Alive and Busy
2002 - Carl Phillips, The Tether
2003 - Linda Gregerson, Waterborne