Kingsley Tufts Award winner to spend week-in-residence at CGU Oct. 5-9

The 2015 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner, Angie Estes, will be returning to Claremont Graduate University for her week-in-residence beginning October 5. Estes was awarded $100,000 for her book, Enchantée, and will be joining students in various classes across the Claremont Colleges, holding several public readings, visiting the Mt. San Antonio Gardens retirement community, and offering a poetry workshop for CGU students.

As part of its Fourth-Sundays program, the Claremont Public Library will be hosting a public reading on Wednesday, October 7, at 5:30 p.m. The library is located in the Claremont Village on the corner of Harvard Avenue and Second Street, and parking is available on Harvard or in the parking lot behind the library on Second.

The community is also invited to attend the Fourth-Annual Poetry Reading and Art Show presented by the Tufts Awards, the CGU Art Department, and Foothill: a journal of poetry, on Friday, October 9, at 6 pm, located in the Peggy Phelps and East Galleries on Tenth Street.

This event will feature Estes, Foothill poets Brett Salsbury, AJ Urquidi, and Jose Hernandez Díaz, a first-year MFA student group show, and an exhibit by Foothill-featured artist, Lara Salmon. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be provided and books will be available for purchase.

Estes will also hold a poetry workshop for CGU students on Thursday, October 8 at 4 p.m. The workshop is RSVP only and will be held in the IAC Library on Dartmouth Avenue.

For further information on any of these events, please contact tufts@cgu.edu or 909-621-8974.

Angie Estes is the author of five books, most recently Enchantée (Oberlin College Press, 2013). Her previous book, Tryst (Oberlin, 2009), was selected as one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Her second book, VoiceOver (Oberlin, 2002), won the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize and was also awarded the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Uses of Passion (1995), was the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize.

The recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, she has also received fellowships, grants, and residencies from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the Lannan Foundation, the California Arts Council, the MacDowell Colony, and the Ohio Arts Council.