I Have Learned to Define a Field as a Space Between Mountains

"I have learned to define a field as a space between mountains" by Rio Cortez is the winner of the inaugural Toi Derricotte + Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize. Created through a partnership between Cave Canem, The Writer's Room at the Betsy Hotel, and O, Miami Poetry Festival, the prize honors one chapbook manuscript a year by a black poet, regardless of the poet's publication history or career status.