Tufts poetry awards ceremony set for April 28
Chase Twichell and Atsuro Riley, the winners of Claremont Graduate University’s 2011 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards, will be recognized at a ceremony and dinner in Claremont on Thursday, April 28.
The ceremony will feature poetry readings by the winners followed by a book signing. There will be a ticketed celebration dinner immediately after.
Special remarks will be made at the ceremony by CBS News 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl.
Twichell received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award of $100,000 for her book Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). The Kingsley Tufts prize was established in 1992 to honor work by a mid career poet.
Riley has won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award of $10,000 for his book Romey’s Order (University of Chicago Press, 2010). The Kate Tufts award is given to a poet for their first book of poetry.
The Kingsley Tufts award is one of the world’s largest monetary prize for a single collection of poetry. It was established at Claremont Graduate University by Kate Tufts to honor the memory of her husband, who held executive positions in the Los Angeles Shipyards and wrote poetry as his avocation. The Kate Tufts Discovery Award was initiated in 1993.
Former Kingsley Tufts Award winners include Robert Wrigley, Tom Sleigh, Linda Gregerson, Matthea Harvey and Yusef Komunyakaa.
Stahl Twichell was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1950. She received a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1973 and earned an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1976. Her books of poetry include The Snow Watcher (Ontario Review Press, 1998), The Ghost of Eden (1995), Perdido (1991), The Odds (1986), and Northern Spy (1981). She has taught at Princeton University, Goddard College, Warren Wilson College, the University of Alabama, and Hampshire College.
Riley grew up in South Carolina and lives in California. His work has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.
The Tufts poetry awards are granted by Claremont Graduate University based on the decisions of a distinguished panel of judges including Linda Gregerson and Carl Phillips, former winners of the Kingsley Tufts Award; David Barber, Poetry Editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Ted Genoways, Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, and Kate Gale. Managing Editor of Red Hen Press
The ceremony begins at 5 p.m. at the Garrison Theater, 231 E. Tenth St., in Claremont.
The ceremony is free, though RSVP is requested. Tickets are required for the dinner. To RSVP or purchase dinner tickets, contact Susan Hampson, susan.hampson@cgu.edu or (909) 621-8612.
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