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"Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize", The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved October 23, 2018.Kinzer, Stephen (2004). "Poetry Starts to Wear $100 Million Crown", The New York Times October 7, 2004. Online version retrieved May 22, 2008. 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".
Winners The following list is based on the listing by the Poetry Foundation.
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 2012: W. S. Di Piero 2013: Marie Ponsot 2014: Nathaniel Mackey 2015: Alice Notley 2016: Ed Roberson 2017: Joy Harjo 2018: Martín Espada 2019: Marilyn Nelson 2020: Marilyn Chin 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 2023: Kimiko Hahn 2024: Li-Young Lee 2025: Rigoberto González
See also American poetry List of poetry awards List of literary awards List of years in poetry List of years in literature
References
External links "Eleven Legends Tributes to the winners of the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize", Poetry magazine, April 2023.