Judge Biographies

A panel of five distinguished final judges, representing a cross-section of the American poetry community, will choose the winners from submissions postmarked on or before September 15, 2009.

A panel of preliminary judges will meet at Claremont Graduate University's Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards Office to screen all submissions. No more than 50 finalists will be forwarded to the final judges for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and 25 for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.  According to the provisions of the Kingsley and Kate Tufts bequest, any of the five final judges may submit the poetry of a candidate for consideration.

The panel of final judges for the 2010 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is:

Linda Gregerson, chair, poet, Professor of English language and literature at the University of Michigan, and past Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award recipient
Ted Genoways, award-winning poet and Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review
Paul Muldoon, poet, Howard G.B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University and poetry editor of The New Yorker
Carl Phillips, poet, Professor of English and African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis,  Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and past Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award recipient
Charles Harper Webb, poet, critic, Professor of English at California State University Long Beach, and past Kate Tufts Discovery Award recipient

The panel of preliminary judges for the 2010 competition includes:

Derick Burleson, chair, poet, Assistant Professor in the MFA program at the University of Alaska
Suji Kwock Kim, poet and playwright, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at University of Massachusetts, Boston
Nadine Meyer, poet, Assistant Professor of English at Gettysburg College
The decision of the panel of judges is final. Competition results will be mailed to all entrants and publishers.