Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

2000: Celebrating the seventh Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Muscular Music by Terrance Hayes. "She lights a Marlboro and it means / Spring will burn quick and furious as a match, / Summer will blaze." (p.26, lines 15-17) #tuftspoetry30 https://t.co/47c0PFNATE https://t.co/Vhpa4fPckc

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

2001: Celebrating the eighth Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Invisible Tender by Jennifer Clarvoe. "What is the shape made there / where the lingering red bird sings / from a branch let free to steady / itself," (40, lines 1-4) #tuftspoetry30 https://t.co/Mwq0xEk0ou https://t.co/CQ6lg1r2XT

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

2002: Celebrating the ninth Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: World’s Tallest Disaster by Cate Marvin. “having bound the account even, and sold it to friends / and passers-by, what point was there in my returning?” (37, lines 8-10) #tuftspoetry30 https://t.co/IC9THFJN0d https://t.co/XEAd3vlcPD

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

2002: Celebrating the tenth Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: The Tether by Carl Phillips “The brain tonight / like a cavernful of small, constant / winds in front of which the ten / answers to the question what mattered / most” (37 lines 13-17) #tuftspoetry30 http://ow.ly/QVjr50HW4XS https://t.co/UFCmFKaSx2

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

2018: Celebrating the 25th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Bestiary by Donika Kelly. “I know him / by his hands. But how am I child? / And this wall against my back, how long / has it been a wall?” (p.19) #tuftspoetry30 https://t.co/j7I2x1NPDe https://t.co/mLv38IZL35

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

2015: Celebrating the 23rd Kingsley Tufts Winner: Enchantée by Angie Estes. “The heart doesn’t need suspenders, like the kites / flown by those who gathered at the end / of the Ile de la Cité to pull down / and back on invisible strings” #tuftspoetry30 https://t.co/oCmap909s3

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

2003: Celebrating the tenth Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: The Zoo by Joanie Mackowski. “let’s all turn into seagulls now and go wherever the wind goes. / Let’s all be free as milkweed, free as the eye’s wonders” (p.14) #tuftspoetry30 http://ow.ly/6YUO50HYb7X https://t.co/voi5Q3NBWR

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

1993: Celebrating the first Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Rapture by Susan Mitchell. "'Sing me something' is what the other keeps saying night after night, regular as a pulse." #tuftspoetry30 https://t.co/ANLWt7GKOA https://t.co/gSvnkb3qRx

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

2010: Celebrating the seventeenth Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Temper by Beth Bachmann. “When we look up here, we do not see Orion; / we see a silhouette shot full of holes.” (p.34) #tuftspoetry30 https://t.co/cgFrnGImbZ https://t.co/rD4F22osIx

Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

1994: Celebrating the second Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa. "Just before sunlight burns off morning fog. Is it her, will she know what I've seen & done, How my boots leave little grave-stone shapes..." #tuftspoetry30 http://ow.ly/Cj4Q50HBUpW https://t.co/d2gVZpyxOc