Editing Allen Ginsberg (section)

==Honors==
His collection ''The Fall of America'' shared the annual U.S. [[National Book Award for Poetry]] in 1974.<ref name="nba1974" />

Ginsberg won a 1974 [[National Book Award]] for ''[[The Fall of America: Poems of These States|The Fall of America]]'' (split with [[Adrienne Rich]], ''[[Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972|Diving into the Wreck]]'').<ref name="nba1974" />

In 1979, he received the [[National Arts Club]] gold medal and was inducted into the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters|American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters]].<ref name="auto2"/>

In 1986, Ginsberg was awarded the Golden Wreath by the [[Struga Poetry Evenings]] International Festival in Macedonia, the second American poet to be so awarded since [[W. H. Auden]]. At Struga, Ginsberg met with the other Golden Wreath winners, [[Bulat Okudzhava]] and [[Andrei Voznesensky]].

In 1989, Ginsberg appeared in [[Rosa von Praunheim]]'s award-winning film ''[[Silence = Death (film)|Silence = Death]]'' about the fight of gay artists in New York City for AIDS-education and the rights of HIV infected people.<ref name=":1" />

In 1993, the French Minister of Culture appointed Ginsberg a [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres]]. Ginsberg was a [[Pulitzer Prize]] finalist in 1995 for his book ''Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986–1992''.<ref name="The Pulitzer Prizes {{pipe}} Poetry" /> In 1993, he received a [[John Jay Award]] posthumously from Columbia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=famous-alums – Columbia Spectator |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/dummy/2017/08/27/famous-alums/ |access-date=January 20, 2022 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 14, 2016 |title=John Jay Awards |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/alumni/about/honors/john-jay-awards |access-date=January 20, 2022 |website=Columbia College Alumni Association}}</ref>

In 2014, Ginsberg was one of the inaugural honorees in the [[Rainbow Honor Walk]], a [[List of halls and walks of fame|walk of fame]] in San Francisco's [[Castro District, San Francisco|Castro neighborhood]] noting [[LGBTQ]] people who have "made significant contributions in their fields."<ref name=":022">{{Cite web |last=Shelter |first=Scott |date=March 14, 2016 |title=The Rainbow Honor Walk: San Francisco's LGBT Walk of Fame |url=https://quirkytravelguy.com/lgbt-walk-fame-rainbow-honor-san-francisco/ |access-date=July 28, 2019 |website=Quirky Travel Guy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2014 |title=Castro's Rainbow Honor Walk Dedicated Today: SFist |url=https://sfist.com/2014/09/02/castros_rainbow_honor_walk_dedicate/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810075052/https://sfist.com/2014/09/02/castros_rainbow_honor_walk_dedicate/ |archive-date=August 10, 2019 |access-date=August 13, 2019 |website=SFist – San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Carnivele |first=Gary |date=July 2, 2016 |title=Second LGBT Honorees Selected for San Francisco's Rainbow Honor Walk |url=http://www.gaysonoma.com/2016/07/second-lgbt-honorees-selected-for-san-franciscos-rainbow-honor-walk/ |access-date=August 12, 2019 |website=We The People}}</ref>