[New-Poetry] Sleigh wins Tufts Award

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http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/02/12/poetry-prize.html#skip300x250

U.S. prizes awarded for poetry, Civil War writing
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 12:20 PM ET 
CBC News 

Brooklyn-based poet Tom Sleigh has won the $100,000 US Kingsley Tufts Award, one of the world's largest prizes for poetry, for his collection Space Walk.


The prize, first awarded in 1993, is given to an emerging poet who has not yet received great fame or success.



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