Poetry Foundation Announces the 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows
Jada Renée Allen, DeeSoul Carson, Andres Cordoba, Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, and Aris Kian. Photos courtesy of the poets.
The Fine Arts Work Center proudly congratulates 2025–2026 Poetry Fellow Jada Renée Allen on being named a recipient of The Poetry Foundation’s 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Allen joins DeeSoul Carson, Andres Cordoba, Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, and Aris Kian in receiving this prestigious honor.
The fellowships are part of the Poetry Foundation’s mission to amplify poetry and celebrate poets, providing outstanding young poets with recognition of their current contributions to the field, along with monetary support to use as they see fit in the development of their craft. Established in 1989, the prize of $27,000 per fellow is among the largest awards available to young poets in the United States.
“We are thrilled to honor these five gifted poets with Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships,” said Poetry editor, Adrian Matejka. “Each of these young writers is exemplary for both their creative and social practices. They are writing important poems even as they support their local communities at a moment when we need art and activism desperately. Wholehearted congratulations to this year’s fellows and finalists.”
Jada Renée Allen (she/her) is a writer, educator, and culture worker from South Side Chicago, Illinois. She is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and support from Tin House, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, The Frost Place, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and VONA, among other organizations. Allen’s writing appears in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Callaloo, Chicago Reader, Gulf Coast, Logic(s) Magazine, wildness, and other publications. Allen is the founding executive director of the Frances Thompson Arts Foundation and editor-in-chief of Bodemé.
