Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Claremont Graduate University announced Monday that the winner of its 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is Marianne Boruch. Boruch will be awarded $100,000 for her collection "The Book of Hours," published by Copper Canyon Press. The prize, one of the largest American awards for poetry, is given to a mid-career poet. Boruch's work includes two collections of poetry: "Grace, Fallen From" (Wesleyan, 2008) and "Poems: New and Selected" (Oberlin, 2004). She is also the author of two books of essays about poetry -- "In the Blue Pharmacy" (Trinity, 2005)

Claremont Graduate University announced Monday that the winner of its 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is Marianne Boruch. Boruch will be awarded $100,000 for her collection "The Book of Hours," published by Copper Canyon Press. The prize, one of the largest American awards for poetry, is given to a mid-career poet. Boruch's work includes two collections of poetry: "Grace, Fallen From" (Wesleyan, 2008) and "Poems: New and Selected" (Oberlin, 2004). She is also the author of two books of essays about poetry -- "In the Blue Pharmacy" (Trinity, 2005)

Rodney Jones, a professor of English at Southern Illinois University, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. Jones was honored for his book "Salvation Blues," published by Houghton Mifflin last year. Claremont selected Seattle-based Eric McHenry, author of "Potscrubber Lullabies," for the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The awards will be presented April 24 in a ceremony at the Herbert Zipper Concert Hall in L.A. that is open to the public.

Claremont Graduate University on Thursday named three poets as finalists for its Kingsley Tufts Award . With a $100,000 prize, the Kingsley Tufts award is one of the most significant awards given to an American poet; previous recipients include D.A. Powell, Lucia Perillo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Phillips, and Chase Twichell. The three finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award are Marianne Boruch for "The Book of Hours" (Copper Canyon Press), Edward Haworth Hoeppner for "Blood Prism" (Ohio State University Press)

Matthea Harvey, a Brooklyn, N.Y., resident who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. The prize, established in 1992 to honor work by a mid-career poet, was given for her book "Modern Life." Matthew Dickman, a Portland, Ore., writer, was selected by the Claremont judges to receive the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his book "All-American Poem." Harvey's other books are "Sad Little Breathing Machine" (2004)

Poet B.H. Fairchild has won the seventh annual Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award at Claremont Graduate University, officials announced Tuesday. Fairchild, a professor of English at Cal State San Bernardino, was selected in the national competition for his book "The Art of the Lathe" (Alice James Books, 1998). The $50,000 prize, the nation's largest honoring a single work, is designed to aid a poet who is beyond the beginning of his career but not yet at the pinnacle.

What will become the largest single poetry prize in the United States will be given for the first time at the Claremont Graduate School in April. Kate Tufts of Los Angeles has donated $1.25 million to endow the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, which honors her late husband, poet and writer Kingsley Tufts. The couple had been married 58 years when Tufts died in 1991.

It's a typical night at the Digges digs in Amherst, Mass. Head-of-household Deborah is cleaning out a room in the basement with the aid of one son, two dogs and nine indoor cats. She's already worked a full day (commuting from Boston where she holds two teaching jobs), written verse, prepared meals and lugged loads of junk up the stairs. It is 10:40 p.m. Is she tired? A mere "no" would be insufficient. The woman sounds jubilant, exhilarated, ecstatic.

It was a typical week for news and national events: financial scandals, Republicans frolicking with live elephants on the Capitol steps, a maybe-no-but-ultimately- yes baseball season and oh, yes, that trial. Not exactly the stuff of gentle rhyme; hardly the makings of contemplative verse. Unless, like Thomas Lux, you heed these happenings as further evidence of the urgency of the poet's mission.

Claremont Graduate University on Thursday named three poets as finalists for its Kingsley Tufts Award . With a $100,000 prize, the Kingsley Tufts award is one of the most significant awards given to an American poet; previous recipients include D.A. Powell, Lucia Perillo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Phillips, and Chase Twichell. The three finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award are Marianne Boruch for "The Book of Hours" (Copper Canyon Press), Edward Haworth Hoeppner for "Blood Prism" (Ohio State University Press)

Matthea Harvey, a Brooklyn, N.Y., resident who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. The prize, established in 1992 to honor work by a mid-career poet, was given for her book "Modern Life." Matthew Dickman, a Portland, Ore., writer, was selected by the Claremont judges to receive the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his book "All-American Poem." Harvey's other books are "Sad Little Breathing Machine" (2004)

Rodney Jones, a professor of English at Southern Illinois University, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. Jones was honored for his book "Salvation Blues," published by Houghton Mifflin last year. Claremont selected Seattle-based Eric McHenry, author of "Potscrubber Lullabies," for the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The awards will be presented April 24 in a ceremony at the Herbert Zipper Concert Hall in L.A. that is open to the public.

Poet B.H. Fairchild has won the seventh annual Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award at Claremont Graduate University, officials announced Tuesday. Fairchild, a professor of English at Cal State San Bernardino, was selected in the national competition for his book "The Art of the Lathe" (Alice James Books, 1998). The $50,000 prize, the nation's largest honoring a single work, is designed to aid a poet who is beyond the beginning of his career but not yet at the pinnacle.

It's a typical night at the Digges digs in Amherst, Mass. Head-of-household Deborah is cleaning out a room in the basement with the aid of one son, two dogs and nine indoor cats. She's already worked a full day (commuting from Boston where she holds two teaching jobs), written verse, prepared meals and lugged loads of junk up the stairs. It is 10:40 p.m. Is she tired? A mere "no" would be insufficient. The woman sounds jubilant, exhilarated, ecstatic.

It was a typical week for news and national events: financial scandals, Republicans frolicking with live elephants on the Capitol steps, a maybe-no-but-ultimately- yes baseball season and oh, yes, that trial. Not exactly the stuff of gentle rhyme; hardly the makings of contemplative verse. Unless, like Thomas Lux, you heed these happenings as further evidence of the urgency of the poet's mission.

What will become the largest single poetry prize in the United States will be given for the first time at the Claremont Graduate School in April. Kate Tufts of Los Angeles has donated $1.25 million to endow the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, which honors her late husband, poet and writer Kingsley Tufts. The couple had been married 58 years when Tufts died in 1991.

Tom Sleigh, a Brooklyn, N.Y., resident who teaches in the creative writing program at Hunter College in New York, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. The school said Monday it was honoring him for "Space Walk," his seventh book of poetry, published by Houghton Mifflin last year. Chosen to receive the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award was Janice N. Harrington for her first book of poetry, "Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone." The awards will be presented April 15 in a ceremony at the Coburn School in Los Angeles.

The country's largest prize for a volume of poetry -- $100,000 -- will be awarded tonight at the Getty Center to English Renaissance scholar Linda Gregerson, known for her lyricism and piercing three-line stanzas on social and ecological subjects. Gregerson, 52, will receive the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her third collection, "Waterborne" (Houghton Mifflin). In addition, poet Joanie Mackowski will receive the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.