Claremont Graduate University

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This undated photo released by Claremont Graduate University shows Afaa Michael Weaver. Weaver, who spent two years in the army and 15 years in a factory, has won some life-changing money. Claremont Graduate University in Southern California announced Wednesday, March 12, 2014, that Weaver of Somerville, Mass., has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book of verse, “The Government of Nature.” (AP Photo/Claremont Graduate University, Catherine Laine)