Kingsley Tufts Award Given to Poet
Associated Press
Feb 12, 2008
Poet Tom Sleigh wins $100,000 prize
NEW YORK -- Poet Tom Sleigh's "Space Walk" has been named this year's winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, a US$100,000 (euro68,785) prize given to an emerging poet.
The honor, established in 1992, is awarded to someone "who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career."
Janice N. Harrington's "Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone," a debut collection, received the US$10,000 (euro6,878) Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
The smaller award is "for a first book by a poet of genuine promise."
Administered by Claremont Graduate University, based in Claremont, California, the awards were established in the early 1990s by Kate Tufts in honor of her late husband, poet Kingsley Tufts. Previous winners include Alan Shapiro, Carl Phillips and Michael Ryan.
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