He is serving a 20-year sentence and sees writing to be a fulfilling, joyous, complex craft to hone, but worth it. He is the 2020 winner of the Page Davidson Clayton Prize and was awarded honorable mention in the 2020 PEN America Prison Writing Contest. His work has been published in the Michigan Quarterly Review, RHINO, The Periphery, and The Marshall Project. JORGE GONZLEZ FOR THE MARSHALL PROJECT By DEMETRIUS BUCKLEY Ever since I reunited with m. But when he couldn’t physically protect his child from adult problems, he learned the limits of parenting via prison phone calls. The manuscript was selected by Lillian Yvonne-Bertram.ĭemetrius A. Demetrius Buckley thought his bond with his 11-year-old daughter was strong. The Betsy Hotel, and O, Miami Poetry Festival, the prize honors one outstanding chapbook manuscript per year by a Black poet, regardless of the poet’s publication history or career status. Buckley is the winner of the seventh annual Toi Derricotte + Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize.Ĭreated through a partnership between Cave Canem, The Writer's Room at
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