On September 8, 2022, The Poetry Foundation announced the winners of the 2022 Pegasus Awards that will be honored at an award ceremony in Chicago this October.
The Pegasus Awards include the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, the Young People’s Poet Laureate, and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism.
In honor of the 110th anniversary of Poetry magazine, the Foundation decided to award 11 Lilly Prizes—one for each decade of the magazine.
The 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winners include two Latinx poets; Sandra Cisneros and Juan Felipe Herrera!
Elizabeth Acevedo is the 2022 Young People’s Poet Laureate.
