Ariana Reines and Tiana Clark Win Kingsley and Kate Tufts Awards

Good news coming in today from the Claremont Graduate University! Taking home this year's Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, honoring a mid-career poet, is Ariana Reines for her most recent collection, A Sand Book. The award comes with a generous prize of $100,000. Tiana Clark’s I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood was chosen as the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, which comes with $10,000 honorarium. A little about the award and this year's winners from the Daily Bulletin:

The $100,000 Tufts award, which is based at the university, is the largest annual cash prize for a single work of poetry, and Reines is the 28th poet to receive it, joining previous winners such as Ross Gay, Patricia Smith and Dawn Lundy Martin.

“A Sand Book,” published by Tin House, is a 12-part collection that ranges from the personal to the political; it was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. An Obie-winning playwright as well as the author of three previous poetry collections, Reines has created projects for the Whitney Museum and taught at Yale, Columbia and UC Berkeley.

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Tiana Clark’s “I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood,” published by University of Pittsburgh Press, won the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, which honors debut collections with a $10,000 award. Previous winners include Beth Bachmann, Yona Harvey and Diana Khol Nguyen.

Continue reading at the Daily Bulletin here, and discover more about the prize and its history here. Congrats to Reines and Clark!