Tufts Poetry Awards 2011 Winners & Finalists


Kingsley Tufts Award Winner


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Timothy Donnelly
The Cloud Corporation

 

Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner


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Katherine Larson
Radial Symmetry

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Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010; Picador, 2012). His poems have been widely anthologized and translated, and they have appeared in such periodicals as A Public Space, Fence, Harper’s, The Iowa Review, jubilat, Lana Turner, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His honors include a Master Writer Fellowship from the New York Writers Institute and the 2011 Jeanette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize. He has been poetry editor of Boston Review since 1996 and teaches in the Writing Program of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.


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Katherine Larson’s first book, Radial Symmetry, was selected by Louise Glück as winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets and published by Yale University Press in 2011. In addition to the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, her work has been honored by a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize. She has spent the last decade working as a molecular biologist and field ecologist. She currently lives in Arizona with her husband and daughter. Click here to see a PBS interview with Katherine Larson.

 

Kingsley Tufts Award Finalists


Ed Roberson, To See the Earth Before the End of the World

Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing

 

Kate Tufts Award Finalists


Julie Hanson, Unbeknownst

Shane McCrae, Mule

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