Paterson is a poem by influential modern American poet William Carlos Williams.

The poem is comprised of five books and a fragment of a sixth book. The five books of Paterson were published separately in 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958, and the entire work was published as a unit in 1963. It is a poetic monument to, and personification of, the town of Paterson, New Jersey.