Paterson Poetry Prize Reading Features Billy Collins

Billy Collins - Photo by Suzannah Gilman

The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College annually gives the Paterson Poetry Prize for a book of poems, selected by the judges as the strongest collection of poems published in that year.

The winning book for 2014 is Billy Collins latest collection, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, New York, NY)

Billy Collins will be the featured reader and the event will include  several finalists for the 2014 Paterson Poetry Prize.

The reading will be Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 1 pm. at the Poetry Center at PCCC in the historic Hamilton Club Building (32 Church Street, Paterson, NJ)

Finalists

• Valerie Bandura, Freak Show (Black Lawrence Press, Pittsburgh, PA)
• Daisy Fried, Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA)
• Jonathan Gillman, My Father, Humming (Antrim House, Simsbury, CT)
• Rachel McKibbens, Into the Dark & Emptying Field (Small Doggies Press, Portland, OR)
• Jose Antonio Rodriguez, The Backlit Hour (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, Nacogdoches, TX)
• Charles Simic, New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, NY)