Alice Notley has been awarded the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a lifetime achievement given to a living U.S. poet by The Poetry Foundation. The honor includes $100,000 in prize money.
The prize will be presented at a ceremony at the Poetry Foundation on Monday June 8. The Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism will also be presented at the ceremony. The winner of that award will be announced later this month.
Born in 1945, Notley began publishing books of poetry in the early 1970s. She is the author of more than 25 books of poetry, including: 165 Meeting House Lane, Phoebe Light, Incidentals in the Day World, For Frank O’Hara’s Birthday, Alice Ordered Me to Be Made: Poems, and How Spring Comes, among many others.