Joy Priest

Joy Priest is a poet and scholar. She is the author of HORSEPOWER, selected by the former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology.

Three Poems

Relying a little less on the odd language we’d been left inside /
we turned back to feeling: — / more moan, more mumble.

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