Davi Gray

I am: a poet. Human. Transgender. Nonbinary. A writer. A person who. A vessel for breath. An audience. A believer. A skeptic. A simulation. A sadness. A joy. A vexed thing. A convex surface. A knot with zero crossings. An unsolved equation. A mystery. A storehouse of memory. An instant of forgetting. A destroyer. A survivor. An overdrawn account. An aftertaste. A fullness. A lack. Myself. I live in Minnesota. My pronouns are they/them. Thanks for reading.

2022 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Honorable Mention in Poetry for “Lightning Rods”

2020 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Honorable Mention in Poetry for “Eugene Cernan: Last Man on the Moon

2020 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Honorable Mention in Essay for “Why I Write

Winner, 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – 2nd Place in Poetry for “Time Reversal Invariance

Winner, 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – 3rd Place in Poetry for “Geode


Articles by Davi Gray

Wednesday September 7

Lightning Rods

Davi Gray was awarded an Honorable Mention in Poetry in the 2022 Prison Writing Contest. Every year, hundreds of imprisoned people from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to PEN America’s Prison Writing Contest, one of the few outlets of free expression for the country’s incarcerated population. There is a certain

Monday March 22

Why I Write

“I write because I have always written, because I want to write, because I don’t want to write, because I don’t know how to not write. Because, in the end, writing is all I have left.”

Monday November 16

Eugene Cernan, Last Man on the Moon

Tiny metal womb falling
through unended dark,
captured by gray cratered
daughter Moon, Earth heart torn free.

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Monday September 9

Geode

Monday September 9

Time Reversal Invariance