 In June, 2015 he announced the appointment of Jacqueline Woodson as the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate.Polito instituted the Pegasus Award for Criticism, honoring the best book-length poetry criticism published during the previous year.In 2014 Mark Ford received the Pegasus Award, and in 2013 the recipient was the University of California Press for the Collected Writings of Robert Duncan.