WINNERS OF THE 2019 PATERSON POETRY PRIZE
Daniel Donaghy, Somerset (NYQ Books, New York, NY)
“Donaghy writes brilliantly about growing up in a hard-scrabble neighborhood in Philadelphia,
and explores complexities of love and sorrow, shame and gratitude.”
Sean Thomas Dougherty, The Second O of Sorrow (BOA Editions, Ltd., Rochester, NY)
“In this amazing, tender, passionate book, Dougherty peels back all the self-protective shields
under which he has hidden truths even from himself, and lets the reader experience all the
people who inhabit his world. In so doing, he reveals his own vulnerability.”
— Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Executive Director, The Poetry Center
FINALISTS
Suzanne Cleary, Crude Angel: Poems (BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO)
Matthew Dickman, Wonderland: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY)
Chanda Feldman, Approaching the Fields: Poems (LSU Press, Baton Rouge, LA)
Maria Giura, What My Father Taught Me (Bordighera Press, New York, NY)
Allison Joseph, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, CA)
Michael Lally, another way to play: poems 1960 – 2017 (Seven Stories Press, New York, NY)
January Gill O’Neil, Rewilding (CavanKerry Press, Fort Lee, NJ)
Danny Shot, Works (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. Submission deadline is February 1, 2020.