Rodney Jones in California for Tufts Awards Ceremony

Claremont Graduate University’s 15th Annual
Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Ceremony
April 24, 2007 - Zipper Concert Hall, The Colburn School of Music
200 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

2007 Winners:
Rodney Jones - Kingsley Tufts Award $100,000 for Salvation Blues
Eric McHenry - Kate Tufts Discovery Award $10,000 for Potscrubber Lullabies


Claremont Graduate University Presents the 15th Annual Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards ceremony at 6 p.m. on April 24 at Zipper Concert Hall, The Colburn School of Music. Come and hear the authors read from their award winning works. The ceremony will be followed by a book signing. Books will be available for purchase on site.

Claremont Graduate University awards two prizes for poetry each year, The Kingsley Tufts Award ($100,000) and The Kate Tufts Discovery Award ($10,000.) CGU’s Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is the largest monetary prize in the nation for a mid-career poet. Carbondale, Illinois resident Rodney Jones—a professor of English at Southern Illinois University—has been selected as the winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award for his poetry book, Salvation Blues (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Kate Tufts Discovery Award is presented annually for a first book by a poet of genuine promise. The winner of the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award is Seattle resident Eric McHenry for his poetry book, Potscrubber Lullabies (The Waywiser Press, 2006).