Ezekiel Caligiuri

Ezekiel Caligiuri is an incarcercated writer from South Minneapolis. He is an original member of the inmate-created Stillwater Writer’s Collective and the B.R.I.D.G.E. Trust Partnership. He wishes to acknowledge the Minnesota Prison Writer’s Workshop for their efforts to provide outlets to the incarcerated in Minnesota. Caliguri believes in the arts as one of the only true components in the rebuilding of the whole human being.


Articles by Ezekiel Caligiuri

Prison and Justice Writing
Friday August 9

C. Fausto Cabrera and Zeke Caligiuri on Precarity and Critical Resistance

C. Fausto Cabrera and Zeke Caligiuri speak with PEN America’s “Works of Justice” podcast about bringing writing programs into Minnesota prisons and editing “America Precariat” while incarcerated.

Prison and Justice Writing
Monday January 4

Bombs

Ezekiel Caligiuri was awarded First Place in Memoir in the 2015 Prison Writing Contest for his account of the day of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Prison and Justice Writing
Tuesday July 16

People I Know

They are girls in buffalo stances, / that dance for men they hate, / who even sometimes hate themselves, / but still paint the pain on in the morning