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Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
American poetry award From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation, which also publishes Poetry magazine. The prize was established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly. It honors a living U.S. poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition"; its value is $100,000[1][2] making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world. Mary Carole McCauley, writing for the Los Angeles Times, called it "among the most prestigious awards that can be won by an American poet".[3]
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Winners
The following list is based on the listing by the Poetry Foundation.[4][5]
1986: Adrienne Rich
1987: Philip Levine
1988: Anthony Hecht
1989: Mona Van Duyn
1990: Hayden Carruth
1991: David Wagoner
1992: John Ashbery
1993: Charles Wright
1994: Donald Hall
1995: A. R. Ammons
1996: Gerald Stern
1997: William Matthews
1998: W. S. Merwin
1999: Maxine Kumin
2000: Carl Dennis
2001: Yusef Komunyakaa
2002: Lisel Mueller
2003: Linda Pastan
2004: Kay Ryan
2005: C. K. Williams
2006: Richard Wilbur
2007: Lucille Clifton
2008: Gary Snyder
2009: Fanny Howe
2010: Eleanor Ross Taylor
2011: David Ferry[6]
2012: W. S. Di Piero[7]
2013: Marie Ponsot[8]
2014: Nathaniel Mackey[9]
2015: Alice Notley[10]
2016: Ed Roberson
2017: Joy Harjo
2018: Martín Espada[11]
2019: Marilyn Nelson
2020: Marilyn Chin[12]
2021: Patricia Smith
2022: Sandra Cisneros, CAConrad, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Juan Felipe Herrera, Angela Jackson, Haki R. Madhubuti, Sharon Olds, Sonia Sanchez, Patti Smith and Arthur Sze[13]
2023: Kimiko Hahn[14]
2024: Li-Young Lee[15]
2025: Rigoberto González[16]
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