$100,000 Poetry Prize Goes To 90-Year-Old Eleanor Ross Taylor

Los Angeles Times:

The substantial $100,000 Ruth Lily Poetry Prize will be awarded to Virginia-based poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, who was born in 1920. Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine, cited the strong reserve in Taylor's poems and praised their "sober and clear-eyed serenity" and authority.

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Comments

[jukesgrrl]

09:32 PM on 04/14/2010

I wish the prestige of the Lily Prize could be separated from the money. Mrs. Taylor certainly deserves the honor, but as the widow of novelist Peter Taylor, who was from a wealthy Nashville family, she probably doesn't really need $100,000. That's unlike many other American poets who have made wonderful contributions to our culture but are spending their old age in relative poverty. $100,000 could mean financial stability to some for the first time in their lives.

[timetocookdinner]

07:35 PM on 04/14/2010

I can't wait to read a poem about suddenly having $100,000 at 90 years old.
Extravagant vacation? Or trust fund for your great grandkids?