prizes in the world, she certainly took pride in their inception while she was alive. Doug Anderson, 1995 Kate Tufts Discovery Award recipient, remembers her sardonic wit when meeting her that year: "She came into the room at the Claremont Graduate School grumbling that she couldn't smoke in there, and then she stopped and looked at Tom Lux [that year's Kingsley Tufts award recipient] and myself. Kate Tufts looked at us and said, 'You don't know how glad I am that this year's awards were given to a couple of really disreputable poets.'" Judging Both awards go through two phases of judging. A preliminary panel of three judges screens the approximately 400 combined applications that are received for both awards. They then pass on finalists to the final judges. The final panel is composed of five distinguished judges, representing a cross-section of the American poetry community. 2020 The panel of final judges for the 2017 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is: Timothy Donnelly, chair; poet, associate professor at Columbia University, and previous editor of the Boston Review Cathy Park Hong, poet, poetry editor at the New Republic, and professor at Rutgers University–Newark. Meghan O’Rourke, poet, essayist, memoirist, and editor of the Yale Review. Luis J. Rodriguez, poet, writer, and founding editor of Tia Chucha Press Sandy Solomon, poet and teacher at Vanderbilt University 2019 The panel of final judges for the 2017 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is: Timothy Donnelly, chair; poet, associate professor at Columbia University, and previous editor of the Boston Review Cathy Park Hong, poet, poetry editor at the New Republic, and professor at Rutgers University–Newark. Khadijah Queen, poet, playwright, and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Luis J. Rodriguez, poet, writer, and founding editor of Tia Chucha Press Sandy Solomon, poet and teacher at Vanderbilt University 2017 The panel of final judges for the 2017 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is: Don Share, chair; poet and editor of Poetry magazine Elena Karina Byrne, poet, poetry curator/moderator for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Terrance Hayes, 2000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award recipient, poet, and professor at the University of Pittsburgh Meghan O'Rourke, poet, essayist, editor, and literary critic Brian Kim Stefans, poet and professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles 2012 The panel of final judges for the 2012 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards is: Linda Gregerson,