Announcing the Finalists for the 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

The Poetry Foundation is excited to announce the 12 finalists for the 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships! Thank you to everyone who applied and shared their work with us.

The five Fellowship recipients, who will be announced in late August, will each receive $27,000 and an invitation to publish in Poetry magazine. All 12 finalists will receive a stipend to attend a professional development opportunity of their choice.

Please join us in congratulating this talented group of finalists!

2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Finalists

• Bhion Achimba
• Roda Avelar 
• Ariana Benson
• River Huiying Dandelion Chan
• Chrysanthemum 
• Kinsale Drake
• Kaleem Hawa
• Willie Lee Kinard III
• Jae Nichelle
• Edythe Rodriguez
• Abhijit Sarmah
• Tariq Thompson

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Information on the 2023 Decision Process

Over 600 applications were received, and each application was read by two of 33 external reviewers; then a group of five external judges read all of the top-scoring applications to select this group of 12 finalists.

Questions and comments about the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships can be directed to [email protected].