The 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize winner is Kim Addonizio for her collection Mortal Trash (W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY).
Honor Books
Kevin Carey, Jesus Was a Homeboy (CavanKerry Press, Fort Lee, NJ)
Dante Di Stefano, Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight (Brighthorse Books, Omaha, NE)
Gary Fincke, Bringing Back the Bones: New and Selected Poems (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, Nacogdoches, TX)
M. L. Liebler, I Want to Be Once (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI)
Colleen J. McElroy, Blood Memory (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA)
Yehoshua November, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books, Asheville, NC)
Brynn Saito, Power Made Us Swoon (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, CA)