Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award Finalists Announced

We're thrilled to see the list of finalists for these two major poetry awards. From the Claremont Graduate University website:

Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is pleased to announce this year's finalists for the $100,00 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The awards are among the world's richest and most distinguished prizes for poetry.

The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is given annually for a book by a poet who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the pinnacle of his or her career. Finalists for 2013 are:

• Marianne Boruch, The Book of Hours (Copper Canyon Press). Boruch, a professor of creative writing and poetry at Purdue University, is the author of eight collections of poetry: View from the Gazebo; Descendant; Moss Burning; A Stick That Breaks and Breaks; Poems: New & Selected; Ghost and Oar; and Grace, Fallen from. She has also written two volumes of essays on poetry, and a memoir.

• Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Blood Prism (Ohio State University Press). Hoeppner directs the creative writing program at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. His previous books of poetry are Rain through High Windows and Ancestral Radio.

• Paisley Rekdal, Animal Eye (University of Pittsburgh Press). Rekdal is an associate professor of English at the University of Utah. She is the author of three previous poetry collections: The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, A Crash of Rhinos, and Six Girls Without Pants, as well as a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee.

The Kate Tufts Discovery Award is presented annually for a first book by a poet of genuine promise. Finalists for 2013 are:

• Rebecca Morgan Frank, Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry). Frank is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, the Georgia Review, Guernica, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She is co-founder and editor of the online magazine Memorious.

• Francine J. Harris, Allegiance (Wayne State University Press). Harris is a Detroit native whose recent work has appeared in Rattle, Callaloo, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

• Heidy Steidlmayer, Fowling Piece (Triquarterly Books). Steidlmayer’s poems have appeared in Literary Imagination, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, River City, and TriQuarterly. She lives in Northern California.

Click over to read more about the awards, the panel of judges, and past winners. Congratulations to everyone!