$100,000 for Poetry

The New York Times announced this morning that Brooklyn poet Tom Sleigh won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his seventh poetry collection Space Walk, published last year by Houghton Mifflin. Sleigh is a creative writing teacher at Hunter College. The award is administered by Claremont Graduate University in California. It was established in 1992 in honor of the poet Kingsley Tufts.