2020 Paterson Poetry Prize Winner & Finalists
Winner: Jericho Brown
for his poetry collection,
The Tradition
(Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA)
Finalists
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon (W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY)
Carrie Conners, Luscious Struggle (BrickHouse Books, Inc., Baltimore, MD)
W. D. Ehrhart, Thank You for your Service: Collected Poems (McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC)
Martin Jude Farawell, Odd Boy (Sibling Rivalry Press, Little Rock, AK)
Dorianne Laux, Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton & Company, NY) 1
Vivian Shipley, An Archaeology of Days (Negative Capability Press, Mobile, AL)
Matthew Thorburn, The Grace of Distance: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA)
Jericho Brown