From Claremont Graduate University
Tea? Lunch? Cocktails? Chronic? To those who know poetry, appreciate edgy and what some critics term fearless writing, those, of course, are the titles of works by D.A. 'Doug' Powell, who, the university has announced, has just won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, named in honor of the late Los Angeles shipyards executive who penned poems in his spare time. Powell, whose work riffs on movies, music and serious topics like the AIDS epidemic, will read his poetry and receive the prize in a program in Pasadena in April. Beth Bachman, a Vanderbilt professor whose first book, 'Temper,' won critical acclaim for what one critic called its ferocious recounting of a murder, also was announced as the winner of the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Both awards, one given to a mid-career author and the other to an early-career writer, aim to assist poets with finances so they can concentrate on their art.
Poet D.A. Powell wins honors, Beth Bachman lauded for 1st poetry book
Click here for Poetry Foundation page on Powell with postings of some of his poems
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