2020 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Finalists Announced

Announced today from the Claremont Graduate University are the finalists for the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, which honors a poet in mid-career with a prize of $100,000, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for a poet's first book. That award comes with a prize of $10,000. Timothy Donnelly, the chair of this year's judging committee, is no stranger to the awards, having won the Kingsley Tufts in 2012 for his book The Cloud Corporation. Now for the finalists for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award:

Tiana Clark, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

Ángel García, Teeth Never Sleep

Valencia Robin, Ridiculous Light

Ashley Toliver, Spectra

Emily Jungmin Yoon, A Cruelty Special to Our Species

And finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award are:

Monica Ferrell, You Darling Thing

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

Ariana Reines, A Sand Book

Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Lima :: Limón

Brian Teare, Doomstead Days

The winners will be announced later this month. Read more about the awards here, and congrats to all!