The Poetry Center at PCCC is pleased to announce the winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize for 2021 is Rachel Eliza Griffiths, for her collection Seeing the Body (W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY).
“Rachel Eliza Griffith’s book is a multifaceted elegy to her mother and exploration of grief and of how to survive. These are beautiful and moving poems by a truly fine and brilliant writer.” — Maria Mazziotti Gillan
FINALISTS
Ellen Bass, Indigo (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA)
Tyree Daye, Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA)
Megan Fernandes, Good Boys (Tin House, St. Portland, OR)
Tony Gloeggler, What Kind of Man (NYQ Books, Beacon, NY)
Jeffrey Harrison, Between Lak es (Four Way Books, New York, NY)
Danusha Laméris, Bonf ire Opera (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA)
PATERSON PRIZE FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Gerald Stern, Blessed as We Were (W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY)
