The 2020 Industry Prize, 2nd Place Winner: While I Walk, My Brother Assures My Nephew There Are Wildflowers Growing in Minneapolis by Chaun Ballard
We’re all very excited to share with you the winners of the 2020 Frontier Industry Prize, selected by Daniel Slager, Peter LaBerge, and Carmen Giménez Smith. Today, we have a new poem by Chaun Ballard. Stay tuned for our winner Michelle Phương Ting’s poetry on the 3rd of December. You can see the 3rd place winner, Adedayo Agarau’s poem, here. Thank you to everyone who submitted this year!
While I Walk, My Brother Assures My Nephew There Are Wildflowers Growing in Minneapolis
[1] Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Chaun Ballard
Chaun Ballard is an affiliate editor for Alaska Quarterly Review, an affiliate reader for Ruminate Magazine, assistant poetry editor for Terrain.org, a graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and a doctoral student of poetry. Chaun Ballard’s chapbook, Flight, was the winner of the 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and is published by Tupelo Press. His poems have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Rattle, The New York Times, Terrain.org, Tupelo Quarterly, and other literary magazines. Chaun is the recipient of a 2019 Alaska Literary Award. His work has received nominations for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and Pushcart Prizes.
