Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

This $100,000 award is given to a poet for a book published in the previous year. Established in 1992, it is administered by the Claremont (California) Graduate School.

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

2004

Henri Cole, Middle Earth

2005

Michael Ryan, New and Selected Poems

2006

Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck

2007

Rodney Jones, Salvation Blues

2008

Tom Sleigh, Space Walk

2009

Matthea Harvey, Modern Life

2010

D.A. Powell, Chronic

2011

Chase Twichell, Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been

2012

Timothy Donnelly, The Cloud Corporation

2013

Marianne Boruch, The Book of Hours

2014

Afaa Michael Weaver, The Government of Nature

2015

Angie Estes, Enchantee

2016

Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude