The Poetry Foundation has announced the winners of the 2022 Pegasus Awards. These awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Young People’s Poet Laureate, and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. The Pegasus Awards made unprecedented waves this year as in honor of the 110^th anniversary of Poetry Magazine, the Foundation chose to honor eleven poets, one per each decade the magazine has been in circulation. The Foundation also distributed over $1.1M in prizes this year alone; the largest prize amount given to living poets in the organization’s history.

2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winners include Sandra Cisneros, CAConrad, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Juan Felipe Herrera, Angela Jackson, Haki Madhubuti, Sharon Olds, Sonia Sanchez, Patti Smith, and Arthur Sze, #AWP22 featured presenter. Elizabeth Acevedo, featured presenter at #AWP20 and #AWP22, was selected as the Young People’s Poet Laureate for the years 2022 through 2024. Kevin Quashie received the 2022 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism.

To read more about the Pegasus Awards and this year’s winners, visit The Poetry Foundation’s website.