Joy Priest
Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a 2019-2020 Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. Her poems have been commissioned for projects in The Atlantic, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Reading List
My First Kiss Was in a Choir Room
where we hung the white robes. It was the drummer, it was the drums. My first kiss was with a girl who shared a name with my older sister & the strip club on the corner that held women like secrets. My first kiss was French for already. The first word in the phrase […]