Foundation Awards
Awarded annually, the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. Established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly, the prize is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets.
Poetry Foundation Named 11 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Recipients in 2022
2022 winners: Sandra Cisneros, CAConrad, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Juan Felipe Herrera, Angela Jackson, Haki Madhubuti, Sharon Olds, Sonia Sanchez, Patti Smith, and Arthur Sze.
2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Recipients
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Sandra Cisneros is a poet, a short story writer, a novelist, and an essayist who explores the lives of working-class people. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in poetry and fiction,...
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Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943, and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated with a degree in history from Fisk University. A world-renowned...
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The son of farmworkers, poet Juan Felipe Herrera was born in Fowler, California, in 1948. He is a graduate of UCLA, Stanford University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. During...
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Angela Jackson is a Chicago poet, playwright, and novelist. She has received numerous honors for both fiction and poetry, including the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Poetry Society...
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Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti, poet, author, publisher, and educator, is regarded as an architect of the Black Arts Movement and is founder and publisher of Chicago's Third World Press. Third...
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Poet Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and grew up in Berkeley, California where she was raised, she has said, as a “hellfire Calvinist.” She attended Stanford...
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Sonia Sanchez was born in 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama. She earned her BA in political science from Hunter College in 1955, did postgraduate work at New York University, and studied...
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Patti Smith was born in Chicago, raised in South Jersey, and moved to New York City in 1967. Her extensive achievements as a performer, an author, and a recording and...
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Arthur Sze is a poet, a translator, and an editor. He is the author of 11 books of poetry, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (Copper Canyon Press,...
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Five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships in the amount of $25,800 each will be awarded to young poets through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. Established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly and increased in 2013 with a gift from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund, the fellowships are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
September 22, 2022
Poetry Foundation Announces 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows
2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows
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2022 Fellow
Tarik Dobbs is a writer, an artist, and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Their poems appear in the Best New Poets and Best of the...
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2022 Fellow
Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, won the 2019 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her awards and prizes include the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and the College...
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2022 Fellow
Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez is an Afro-Indigenous poet; an installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México; and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Lopez’s debut visual...
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2022 Fellow
Tariq Luthun is a Detroit-born, Dearborn-raised community organizer, data engineer, and poet. The son of Palestinian Muslim immigrants from Gaza, he is a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg...
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2022 Fellow
Troy Osaki is the grandson of Filipino immigrants and the great-grandson of Japanese immigrants. A three-time grand slam poetry champion, Osaki earned fellowships from Kundiman, Hugo House, and the Jack...
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Awarded every two years, the $25,000 laureate title is given to a living writer in recognition of a career devoted to writing exceptional poetry for young readers. The laureate advises the Poetry Foundation on matters relating to young people’s literature and may engage in a variety of projects to help instill a lifelong love of poetry among the nation’s developing readers. This laureateship aims to promote poetry to children and their families, teachers, and librarians over the course of its two-year tenure.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
September 8, 2022
This award honors the best book-length works of criticism published in the prior calendar year, including biographies, essay collections and critical editions that consider the subject of poetry or poets.
2022 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
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2022 Award Recipient
Kevin Quashie is the 2022 recipient for his book Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, which draws on Black feminist literary texts, including work by poets Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, and June Jordan.
Quashie teaches Black cultural and literary studies and is a professor in the department of English at Brown University. Among his honors are a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as citations for teaching excellence from Brown University and Smith College.
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Finalists
The 2022 Criticism finalists were Anahid Nersessian for Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (The University of Chicago Press) and Syd Zolf for No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics (Duke University Press).