Alicia Ostriker, our April 2008 Poetry Monday featured poet, has just won the 2009 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, for her collection of poems The Book of Seventy. The “gala ceremony” will be on March 9, at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, located at 15 West 16th Street. The ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.