The Poetry Foundation has announced the five recipients of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowships: Malachi Black, Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Jeffrey Schultz, and Joseph Spece. Among the largest awards offered to aspiring poets in the United States, each Lilly Fellowship carries a $15,000 scholarship prize for fellows to use as they wish in continued study and writing of poetry.

The editors of Poetry magazine selected the winning manuscripts from over 550 applications. In announcing the winners, Poetry editor Christian Wiman remarked, “2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships, and the quality of work the program attracts is more impressive every year. Being able to recognize and support five such talented young poets is a real pleasure, surpassed only by reading their work.”

Schultz you might recall, was a recipient of our “Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest earlier this year.

The new season of readings is fast approaching, tickets will be available beginning on Aug 3. View all upcoming readings in the Main Reading Series.

[Unterberg Poetry Center]

Previously:
Podium Literary Journal Issue Six

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