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D. A. Powell wins $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award


February 4, 2010—Graywolf Press is delighted to announce that D. A. Powell has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his latest collection, Chronic. The prestigious award, founded in 1992, is given annually by Claremont Graduate University to honor work by a midcareer poet. The awards will be presented on Thursday, April 22, at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.

The panel of final judges for the 2010 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards were Ted Genoways, Linda Gregerson, Paul Muldoon, Carl Phillips, and Charles Harper Webb.

Graywolf Press senior editor Jeffrey Shotts was thrilled with the news. “D. A. Powell is one of the major poets of our time, and it’s wonderful to have the Kingsley Tufts Award recognize that,” he said. “Considering that Powell was selected by such a diverse committee of esteemed poets, that makes it all the sweeter. And, of course, six figures doesn’t hurt either.”

Graywolf poet Matthea Harvey won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award last year for her collection Modern Life.

Chronic is Powell’s fourth collection and was named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and the Los Angeles Times. On January 23 it was named a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, his second nomination for the esteemed award (the first was for Cocktails, which was published by Graywolf Press in 2004).

Graywolf Press had three NBCC Award finalists total, the most of any independent publisher, and a record for the Press. The two other finalists were in the criticism category: Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays by Eula Biss, an evocative exploration of the legacy of race in America that National Public Radio praised as “forceful, beautiful essays”; and Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry by Stephen Burt, who Publishers Weekly called “one of the leading poet-critics of his own emerging generation.”

The winners will be announced on Thursday, March 11, at the New School in New York.

In 2007, Graywolf had two finalists in the poetry category: Modern Life by Matthea Harvey, and Elegy by Mary Jo Bang, which went on to win the award.

In other recent awards news, Graywolf is pleased to announce that on January 30, Skirmish by Dobby Gibson and Unrest by Joanna Rawson were named finalists in the poetry category of the Minnesota Book Awards. It is the second collection for each poet, and the second nomination for Gibson. The winners will be announced at a gala on April 17 at the Crowne Plaza-Riverfront in St. Paul, Minnesota.

About the Tufts Awards
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award was established at Claremont Graduate University in 1992 by Kate Tufts to honor the memory of her husband Kingsley Tufts, 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. Claremont Graduate University also awards a Kate Tufts Poetry Award, a $10,000 prize that is given to a first book by a poet. This year’s winner is Beth Bachmann for her collection Temple.

About Claremont Graduate University
Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top graduate schools in the United States. Our nine academic schools conduct leading-edge research and award masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor easily defined, diverse faculty and students research and study across the traditional discipline boundaries to create new and practical solutions for the major problems plaguing our world. A Southern California based graduate school devoted entirely to graduate research and study, CGU boasts a low student-to-faculty ratio

About the National Book Critics Circle
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974 at the Algonquin, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization consisting of some 600 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns. It is managed by a 24-member all-volunteer board of directors. For more information, please contact National Book Critics Circle president Jane Ciabattari at janeciab@gmail.com or go to www.bookcritics.org.

About Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an independent, not-for-profit publisher dedicated to the creation and promotion of thoughtful and imaginative contemporary literature essential to a vital and diverse culture. Graywolf has published significant books of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translations for over thirty-five years, and has become one of the leading literary publishers in the country.

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