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Joy Priest

Born

Louisville, KY, The United States

Website

http://www.joypriest.com

Genre

Poetry

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Joy Priest grew up in Louisville, KY on the backside of the world’s most famous horseracing track. She is the author of HORSEPOWER, winner of the 2019 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from AWP, and a 2019-2020 Poetry Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Her poems and essays appear in numerous publications, including Callaloo, Connotation Press, Four Way Review, espnW, Gulf Coast, Mississippi Review, The Rumpus, and Third Coast, and have been anthologized in Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets, The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop, and Best New Poets 2014 and 2016.

Priest is the winner of the 2019 Gearhart Poetry Prize from The Southeast Review; the 2019 Nikki Giovanni Scholar at the Appalac ...more

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	A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South by Cinelle Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Jaswinder Bolina (Contributor), Regina N. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.28 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horsepower: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.59 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance by Kaveh Akbar (Editor), Joy Harjo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Bernardo Wade (Contributor) 4.27 avg rating — 126 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets by Bianca Lynne Spriggs (Editor, Contributor), Frank X. Walker (Editor, Contributor), Jeremy Paden (Editor, Contributor) 4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology 4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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