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2013: Celebrating the 20th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Fowling Piece by Heidy Steidlmayer. ”Midnight, the knives throw / shadows with showy precision / through my hesitant silhouette.” (p.11) #tuftspoetry30 ow.ly/44eV50InaXy

2014: Celebrating the twenty-second Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: The Government of Nature by Afaa Michael Weaver. ”The lines that make you are infinite, but I count them / every day to hear the stories you carry” (p.10) #tuftspoetry30 magichorses.org/index.html

2014: Celebrating the 21st Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Hemming the Water by Yona Harvey. "someone had lengthened your legs, / someone had softened your bangs. & someone had drawn / a mic & a door with a stage light peering through." (p.51) #tuftspoetry30 yonaharvey.com

2015: Celebrating the 22nd Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: The Tribute Horse by Brandon Som. "They say in certain shells / You still hear the sea. / What urgency is there still / Left in such long distant / Phone calls" #tuftspoetry30 ow.ly/9Q4y50IoFma

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

2016: Celebrating the 24th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay. “A man sings / by opening his / mouth a man / sings by opening / his lungs by / turning himself into air / a flute can / be made of a man” #tuftspoetry30 rossgay.net/about

2016: Celebrating the 23rd Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: [Insert] Boy by Danez Smith. "I hear music rise off your skin. Each hair on your arm a tiny viola. / A wind full of bows blows & all I hear is the brown // hum of your flesh," (p.109) #tuftspoetry30 ow.ly/Uj2w50IrMvw

2017: Celebrating the 25th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Forest Primeval by Vievee Francis. “Like the memory of a monarch landing / in the palm of the hand the summer’s end / contains no promise so its moment is held only briefly” (p. 41) #tuftspoetry30 ow.ly/ZPW850IwoTL

2017: Celebrating the 24th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams. “I was shut tight. I was going somewhere / and quickly. // Little boat. // Little boat made smaller by distance.” (p1) #tuftspoetry30 phillipbwilliams.com

2018: Celebrating the 26th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith “You can name yourself a man, walk taut and tall and will your voice / to stomp, but still be upended by demons, ain’t that something?” (31) #tuftspoetry30 wordwoman.ws

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 donikakelly.com

"May poets and poetry flourish" on this first day of National Poetry Month! The Call for Entries for the 2023 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is NOW OPEN! #tuftspoetry arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-a…

2019: Celebrating the 27th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Good Stock Strange Blood by Dawn Lundy Martin “But there is no escape. The material is always the same. Yet, it is / malleable. To mutate is to live” (99) #tuftspoetry30 dawnlundymartin.com/about/

2019: Celebrating the 26th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen. “These are the tiles from his mother’s house, cool / against my cheek. I talk to him in one tongue, / he answers from the morgue.” (p.22) #tuftspoetry30 dianakhoinguyen.com

2020: Celebrating the 28th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: A Sandbook by Ariana Reines “after the rain hit / the creosote the sun / hit it & a fragrance / wild & sweet was hitting / me, a springtime / sensation of rising seed” (81) #tuftspoetry30 arianareines.net/about

2020: Celebrating the 27th Kate Tufts Poetry Winner: I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark. “It rained inside me / it is raining inside my neck / the rain falls in sheets inside long sheets inside” (p.32) #tuftspoetry30 tianaclark.com

2021: Celebrating the 29th Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo “Learn to lose as if / your life depended on it. / Learn that your life depends on it. / Learn it like karate, like riding a bike” (9) #tuftspoetry30 johnmurillo.com

2021:Celebrating the 28th Kate Tufts Winner: Eyes Bottle Dark w/ a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets “becoming a man/means knowing how to become charcoal//staccato of ash/holding a match to their skin/trying not to light themselves on fire” #tuftspoetry30 jakeskeets.com

What a magical night it was! Last night was the 2022 Award Ceremony to honor Divya Victor & torrin a. greathouse. Join us tonight @ the Los Angeles Public Library for a reading, reception & book signing by these amazing poets. FREE ADMISSION. Register: eventbrite.com/e/2022-kingsle…

Congrats Douglas Kearney! What an incredible year for you!