Five poets received unusually lucrative good news on Tuesday, as the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine announced the recipients of the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.
Nate Marshall, Erika L. Sánchez, Danniel Schoonebeek, Safiya Sinclair and Jamila Woods each received $25,800. The prize is available to United States poets from 21 to 31 years old.
Mr. Marshall’s first book, “Wild Hundreds,” won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Ms. Sánchez was a winner of the 2013 “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize. Mr. Schoonebeek’s first book was “American Barricade,” and his second, “C’est la guerre,” will be published this year. Ms. Sinclair’s first full-length collection, “Cannibal,” to be published in 2016, won a Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Ms. Woods is a singer and teaching artist in Chicago in addition to being a poet.
The prize has grown over the years, after starting as a single fellowship issued in 1989.