John Ortenzio Bargowski won the 2011 Bordghera Poetry Prize for $2,000 and bilingual book publicaition. was born and raised in Jersey City and now lives with his family on a small acreage along the Delaware River in northwestern New Jersey. He is the recipient of a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Distinguished Artist Fellowship, The Rose Lefcowitz Prize from Poet Lore, and the Theodore Roethke Prize from David Wagoner at Poetry Northwest. Several of his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared on Poetry Daily and been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Sun Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Paterson Literary Review & Journal of New Jersey Poets, among others.
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