The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is an American prize that is one of the world's most lucrative poetry awards. It is presented to an emerging poet who has not yet received great fame or success, but who does have an established body of work. The winner of the award recieves $100 000. The award was created by Kate Tufts in honour of her late husband Kingsley Tufts. She also created the smaller Kate Tufts Discovery Award which goes to a first time poet.
Winners:
- 1993 - Susan Mitchell, Rapture
- 1994 - Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular
- 1995 - Thomas Lux, Split Horizon
- 1996 - Deborah Digges, Rough Music
- 1997 - Campbell McGrath, Spring Comes to Chicago
- 1998 - John Koethe, Falling Water
- 1999 - B.H.Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe
- 2000 - Robert Wrigley, Reign of Snakes
- 2001 - Alan Shapiro, The Dead Alive and Busy
- 2002 - Carl Phillips, The Tether
- 2003 - Linda Gregerson, Waterborne
