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Joy Priest

oy Priest is the author of Horsepower (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) winner of the 2019 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for AWP. Her poems have appeared in Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Mississippi Review, The Southeast Review, and Best New Poets 2019 among others. Currently, she is a 2019-2020 Fine Arts Work Center fellow in poetry.

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'No Such Thing As a Still Life'—Ekphrastic poetry by Joy Priest

by Joy Priest December 9, 2019December 3, 2020

Our Southern series of Black Ekphrastic poetry "No Such Thing as Still Life" continues this week with our fourth installment from Joy Priest and her poem "The night never ended when one of us died."

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Poem: God of the Motorcade

by Joy Priest January 14, 2016December 3, 2020

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