2017 Ginsberg Poetry Award Winners
The Spring 2018 issue of Paterson Literary Review includes winners and all the honorable mentions of the 2017 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards:
First Prize
Howard Berelson, Teaneck, NJ, “Last Night”
Robert A. Rosenbloom, Bound Brook, NJ, “Dear Amy”
Second Prize
Eileen Van Hook, Wanaque, NJ “Thanksgiving Memory”
Third Prize
Phillipa Scott, West Orange, NJ, “Hoboken, 1990”
For a full list of the Honorable Mentions and Editor’s Choice selections, click here.
The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, honoring Allen Ginsberg’s contributions to American Literature, are given annually to poets. First prize, $1,000; second prize, $200; and third prize, $100. Winning poems are published in the following year’s issue of the Paterson Literary Review. The contest is open between June 1 and September 30 of each year.
