Poet Sonia Sanchez to Receive 2022 MacDowell Medal
Poet Sonia Sanchez will receive the Edward MacDowell Medal at a ceremony on the MacDowell grounds on July 10. Novelist and MacDowell Fellow Walter Mosley will deliver introductory remarks. Previous MacDowell Medal winners include Robert Frost, Georgia O’Keeffe, Leonard Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, Stephen Sondheim, Toni Morrison, and Art Spiegelman.
Sanchez is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, children’s literature, and plays, including We a BaddDDD People, Homegirls and Handgrenades (winner of the 1985 American Book Award), Under a Soprano Sky, Does Your House Have Lions?, Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the Robert Frost Medal and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. Other awards and honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the 1985 Lucretia Mott Award, the 2004 Harper Lee Award, the 2009 Robert Creeley Award, the 2018 Wallace Stevens Award, and the 2021 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
