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THE 2022 PATERSON POETRY PRIZE WINNERS
The Paterson Poetry Prize Award for 2022 is shared by two poets:
Catherine Doty, Wonderama (CavanKerry Press, Ltd., Fort Lee, NJ)
Craig Morgan Teicher, Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey (BOA Editions, Ltd., Rochester, NY)
FINALISTS
Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Water I Won’t Touch (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA)
Bob Hicok, Red Rover Red Rover (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA)
Laura Kasischke, Lightning Falls in Love (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA)
Linda Lerner, Taking the F Train (NYQ Books, Beacon, NY)
Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN)
Adrienne Su, peach state (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA)
Jenny Qi, Focal Point (Steel Toe Books, Winston-Salem, NC)
The Paterson Poetry Prize of $2,000 is given annually by the Poetry Center to a book of poetry (48 pages or more) published in the previous year. The submission deadline for the 2023 award is February 1, 2023.
Jan Beatty is the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize Winner
The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College is pleased to announce that the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize winner is Jan Beatty for her book, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA).
"Jackknife is a book that secures Jan’s place in American literature
as one of the fiercest and bravest poets writing today." — Maria Mazziotti Gillan
FINALISTS
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Arrival: Poems (Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL)
Jim Daniels, Rowing Inland (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI)
Judy Grahn, Hanging on Our Own Bones (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, CA)
Nicole Homer, Pecking Order (Write Bloody Publishing, Los Angeles, CA)
Christine Kitano, Sky Country (BOA Editions, Ltd., Rochester, NY)
Meghan O’Rourke, Sun in Days (W. W. Norton & Co., New York, NY)
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Last Cigarette on Earth (Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX)
Cindy Veach, Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press, Fort Lee, NJ)
The Paterson Poetry Prize of $1,000 is given annually by the Poetry Center to a book of poetry (48 pages or more) published in the previous year.
The submission deadline for books published in 2018 is February 1, 2019. For 2019 award rules and application forms, visit www.poetrycenterpccc.com/awards/. For questions, contact sdesai@pccc.edu.
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.