JUNETEENTH DIALOGUES: "won’t you celebrate with me"

Virtual poetry reading and conversation with Chaun Ballard

Chaun Ballard is a doctoral student of poetry, an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review, an assistant poetry editor for Prairie Schooner, an assistant poetry editor for Terrain.org. His chapbook, Flight, was the recipient of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and is published by Tupelo Press. His full-length collection, Second Nature, received the 2023 A. Poulin, Jr. Prize and will be published by BOA Editions in 2025. Chaun’s poems have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, The New York Times, and other literary magazines.

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