poet, professor at the University of Michigan, and past Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award recipient David Barber, poet, poetry editor of The Atlantic Monthly Kate Gale, poet, novelist, managing editor of Red Hen Press Ted Genoways, award-winning poet and Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review Carl Phillips, poet, professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and past Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award recipient The panel of preliminary judges for the 2012 competition includes: Jericho Brown, poet, Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego Andrew Feld, poet, editor of the Seattle Review, and assistant professor at the University of Washington Jennifer Chang, poet, Assistant Professor of creative writing at Bowling Green State University Distinguished past judges Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, and poetry editor of The New Yorker Robert Pinsky, poet, past Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and poetry editor at Slate Charles Harper Webb, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient in 2001, and professor at California State University Long Beach Submission requirements/deadlines Submissions are due annually on July 1, and eligible work has to have been published the previous year (between July and June). Manuscripts, CDs, and chapbooks are not accepted. Awards ceremony Award winners are announced in the February following the July deadline, with a ceremony and presentation of the awards in April, national poetry month. The ceremony takes place on the Claremont Graduate University Campus, and winners are required to accept their award in person. Distinguished speakers at the Awards Ceremony have included Kathy Bates in 2002, Leonard Nimoy in 2007, and Maxine Hong Kingston in 2012. Restrictions A single work may be submitted for either award only once, although the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award may submit another work in a later year for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner, by accepting the award, agrees to spend one week in residence at Claremont Graduate University for lectures and poetry readings in Claremont and the greater Los Angeles area. The poet must be an American citizen or legal resident alien of the United States. Winners References External links Claremont Graduate University Foothill: a journal of poetry Tufts Facebook Page Tufts Vimeo Page 2011 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Kathy Bates on Suffering and the Imagination at the 2002 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Claremont Graduate University American poetry awards First book awards Literary awards