From The Seattle Times:

Olympia -- Lucia Perillo of Olympia has won the 2006 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, worth $100,000 and said to be the largest award given to a midcareer poet.

Perillo's fourth volume of verse, "Luck Is Luck," was published by Random House in March 2005. The line that lends the collection its title -- "well, hard luck is luck, nonetheless" -- sums up the spirit of the book. Perillo, who has been battling multiple sclerosis since the 1980s, is also a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Robert Wrigley, chairman of the Tufts Poetry Awards, commented on "Luck Is Luck": "It gives the reader stories that show the familiar in unfamiliar ways. ... It manages to be simultaneously lighthearted and moving -- a very elusive quality."