Derricotte/Eady Prize Chapbook Release & Reading with Chaun Ballard

Our 11th annual book prize reading celebrates the winner of the Derricotte/Eady Chapbook Prize awarded by Cave Canem, the nation’s foremost poetry organization supporting Black poets. This year's winning manuscript is by Chaun Ballard, selected by judge giovanni singleton.

Chaun Ballard’s chapbook, Flight, was the recipient of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and was published by Tupelo Press, and his full-length collection, Second Nature, received the 23rd annual A. Poulin, Jr. Prize and was published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2025. His writing has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Obsidian, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Atlantic, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, The New York Times Magazine, and other literary magazines. He holds an MFA and a PhD.

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