


Rodriguez, and Sandy Solomon-chose this year’s winners from five finalists in each category.

They contain enormities they’re so rich in detail,” said Finalist Judging Chair Timothy Donnelly, who received the Kingsley in 2012 for The Cloud Corporation.ĭonnelly and his fellow judges- Meghan O’Rourke, Khadijah Queen, Luis J. “Both of this year’s winners have written big, bold, and audacious books. Powell, Ross Gay, and Patricia Smith, among others.Ĭlark joins a group of Discovery winners that also includes Yona Harvey, Charles Harper Webb, Beth Bachmann, and Diana Khoi Nguyen. Fairchild, Angie Estes, Henri Cole, Thomas Lux, Linda Gregerson, D.A. Reines is the 28th poet to be honored with the $100,000 annual award, whose past winners include B.H. Ariana Reines’s A Sand Book (Tin House) has been selected as the winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Tiana Clark’s I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press) has been chosen for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
