
Established in 1989, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship has monetarily awarded accomplished US poets between the ages of 21 and 31 to encourage their continued study of writing and poetry. At its inception, two fellowships in the amount of $15,000 were awarded. Following a 2013 gift from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund, the fellowship amount increased to $25,800 and the number of fellows increased to five
“They are not only gifted writers,” Poetry magazine editor Don Share said of the 2015 fellows, who were announced at the beginning of this month, “but also keen educators, activists, leaders in their communities. Each of these distinctive and skillful people, both at and away from the writing desk, is devoted to illuminating us in significant and inspiring ways." We celebrate the following fellows in particular and encourage you to congratulate them by reading and supporting their work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzOT6mDfYGU
“They are not only gifted writers,” Poetry magazine editor Don Share said of the 2015 fellows, who were announced at the beginning of this month, “but also keen educators, activists, leaders in their communities. Each of these distinctive and skillful people, both at and away from the writing desk, is devoted to illuminating us in significant and inspiring ways." We celebrate the following fellows in particular and encourage you to congratulate them by reading and supporting their work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzOT6mDfYGU
Nate Marshall
Nate Marshall’s first book, Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He is a coeditor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015). He is a visiting assistant professor at Wabash College, a founding member of the Dark Noise poetry collective and a Cave Canem fellow. His work has appeared in Poetry, Indiana Review and The New Republic among other publications. He was the star of the award-winning documentary Louder Than a Bomb and has been featured in the HBO original series Brave New Voices. Marshall received the 2014 Hurston/Wright Founding Members Award for College Writers and the 2013 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award.