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. It is a $2000 award for a book of poems, 48 pages or more in length, and the winning poet gives a reading at the Poetry Center in Paterson, NJ, or virtually.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Founder & Executive Director of the Poetry Center says this of the two winning books for 2022:
Doty captures with marvelous imagery and courage an unblinking vision of what it was like
to grow up in the world without money, without any of the protections that middle-class
people have against meanness and ugliness in the world. She’s both blunt and
hilariously funny. This is a humor rooted in sadness and pain, and she forces us
to look without blinders on a life that is so precarious and dangerous.
In this book, Teicher explores the joys and sorrows of domestic life, giving us a complete picture of growing into middle age in the suburbs and moving into maturity. This is
a brilliant book that leaves us wiser than when we began reading.
The Goodreads website lists some of the recent Paterson Poetry books.
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