Poetry Foundation Announces the 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows
The Poetry Foundation is thrilled to announce the 2026 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows: Xochi Quetzali Cartland, Fatima Jafar, Noel Munguia-Moreno, Shaina Phenix, and Tariq Thompson.
Among the largest awards offered to young poets in the United States, the Fellowship program recognizes and provides monetary support to five exceptional poets who are between ages 21 and 31 years. Each fellow receives $27,000, a subscription to Poetry magazine, and an invitation to submit work to the venerated publication. Additionally, the Poetry Foundation will sponsor the fellows’ attendance at the 2026 Dodge Poetry Festival, where they will participate in their inaugural reading as a cohort.
Noel Munguia-Moreno (he/him) is a poet and educator from West Valley City, Utah, and the son of Mexican migrants. He earned a BA from Susquehanna University and a MFA from Rutgers University–Newark, where he taught creative writing. His writing has been supported by the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has appeared in MudRoom Magazine, Decolonial Passage, and other publications.
