Lilly Poetry Prize, Worth $100K, To Marie Ponsot

“Poet Marie Ponsot will be awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in June, it was announced Monday. The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which comes with an award of $100,000, is given to a poet for lifetime achievement. Ponsot’s career began in the 1950s; her book True Minds was the first thing City Lights published after Allen Ginsberg’s Howl.”