is pleased to announce the winners of

THE 2010 ALLEN GINSBERG POETRY AWARDS

FIRST PRIZE

Rafaella Del Bourgo, Berkeley, CA “Olive Oil”Kathleen Spivack, Watertown, MA “Their Tranquil Lives”

SECOND PRIZE

Joyce Madelon Winslow, Washington, DC “The”Francine Witte, New York, NY “In My Poems, Sometimes I Have Children”

THIRD PRIZE

Kim Farrar, Astoria, NY “The Box”

HONORABLE MENTION

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Austin Alexis, New York, NY “After The Diagnosis”Anthony Buccino, Nutley, NJ “Something Tells Me You Went To Catholic

School”Mary Butler, Ferndale, MI “The Summer Before I Started KindergartenCharles Cantrell, Madison, WI “Marilyn Monroe to Arthur Rimbaud”John Chorazy, Montclair, NJ “Teaching With the Brain in Mind”David Crews, Basking Ridge, NJ “Even Now”Linda A. Cronin, Cedar Grove, NJ “Beyond My Reach”Gil Fagiani, Long Island City, NY “Salsa”Joy Gaines-Friedler, Farmington Hills, MI “At a Hotel in Florida Where We Met in 1969Gail Fishman Gerwin, Morristown, NJ “The Great Feud”Maria Giura, Staten Island, NY “Mercy”Jose B. Gonzalez, Quaker Hill, CT “Hollow Shells Revisited”James D. Gwyn, Clifton, NJ “At McGinness Pond”Pat Hardigree, Bordentown, NJ “Falling Off The Earth”Josh Humphrey, Kearny, NJ “Missus Rosamilia”Alice Jay, Miami, FL “Snapper Creek Canal”Barbara Leon, Aptos, CA “Origins”

THE POETRY CENTERAT PASSAIC COUNTY

COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Paul Lieber, Venice, CA “Los Angeles”Elizabeth Lund, Newtonville, MA “Interrogation”Mary Makofske, Warwick, NY “Atlantic City”Elizabeth Nesius, Wayne, NJ “Calling My Mother”Linda Radice, North Plainfield, NJ “Pieces”Christine Redman-Waldeyer, Manasquan, NJ “Dusting Shelves”Jim Reese, Hartington, NE “The Saw Grinder”Al Tacconelli, Wynnewood, PA “Giving Away”Sander Zulauf, Andover, NJ “January, 1961”

EDITOR’S CHOICE

Mark Brunetti, Edison, NJ “Even the Ones Who Don't Show Up”Laurie Byro, Hewitt, NJ “Rain Travelers”Jessica G. de Koninck, Montclair, NJ “The Man in His Undershirt Wants Me”Deborah Gerrish, Murray Hill, NJ “Mother”Charles H. Johnson, Hillsborough, NJ “New York City”Laine Sutton Johnson, Hillsborough, NJ “Polka Dots”Gina Larkin, Edison, NJ “Greatgrandma”Bruce Lowry, Summit, NJ “Mary and Fanny”Elizabeth Marchitti, Totowa, NJ “All I Needed Was The Rain”Wanda S. Praisner, Bedminster, NJ “Monday, September Fifteenth, Feast of Our Lady of

Sorrows”Maude Carolan Pych, Totowa Borough, NJ “Kitchen Offerings”Robert A. Rosenbloom, Bound Brook, NJ “Bio”Ellen Rowe, Haledon, NJ “A Game of Numbers”Bill Van Buskirk, Allentown, PA “Backbone”

Award Winners’ Reading will be held on November 6, 2010

at theHamilton Club Building,

32 Church Street, Paterson, New JerseyThe Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College

One College Boulevard, Paterson, New Jersey 07505-1179

Visit our website at www.pccc.edu/poetry or call 973-684-6555

This publication is also available in large print on request

The Poetry Center was named a Distinguished Arts Project and awarded several Citations of Excellence, and is funded, in part, by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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