Claremont Graduate University announced its finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for books published the previous year. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award provides $100,000 in financial support that “allows the recipient to concentrate on their craft.” The Kate Tufts Discovery Award grants $10,000 “to honor the first poetry volume published by a poet of particular promise.”

The finalists for 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award are:
Vievee Francis, Forest Primeval (Northwestern UP)
Tyehimba Jess, Olio (Wave Books)
Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed)
Jamaal May, The Big Book of Exit Strategies (Alice James Books)
Patrick Rosal, Brooklyn Antediluvian (Persea Books)

The finalists for 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award are:
Derrick Austin, Trouble the Water (BOA Editions)
Rickey Laurentiis, Boy With Thorn (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Jordan Rice, Constellarium (Orison Books)
Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press)
Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books)