Graduate Student Reading Series Poet: Joy Priest

The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program through its Graduate Students Reading series presents a reading and book signing with Joy Priest, the 2025 Visiting Poet. This free event is open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be served.

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series), selected by Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande). Her other honors include 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. Priest’s poems and essays have appeared widely in publications such as The Atlantic, Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sewanee Review, and ESPN; in anthologies such as The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop, That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions, and What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People; and in commissions for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, and the Curator of Community Programs (CCPP) & Practice at the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics (CAAPP) at the University of Pittsburgh where she is also an Assistant Professor of Poetry.