THE 2025 ALLEN GINSBERG POETRY AWARDS
FIRST PRIZE
Daniel Donaghy, Willington, CT “My Mother at Christmas”
Rafaella Del Bourgo, Berkeley, CA “Nightgown, 1960”
SECOND PRIZE
Lisa Coll Nicolaou, Fair Lawn, NJ “Conversations With Grandma Cookie”
Charles Rossiter, Bennington, VA “Ordinary Days Back When”
THIRD PRIZE
John T. Wagner, Irvine, CA “Greenwald's”
Howard Berelson, Teaneck, NJ “My Hands”
Award Winners’ Reading — February 7, 2026, at The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, 32 Church Street, Paterson, NJ
For 2026 guidelines, visitwww.poetrycenterpccc.com/awards