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Poets in Print

February 2021: Joy Priest and Adam Clay

Saturday, February 20, 2021

Virtual Event Via Zoom
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time

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Artist: Neila Kun
Poet: Joy Priest
Poem: Pegasus
Media: Linocut in grey with letterpress on cream Arches paper wih mulberry paper chin cole

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Artist: Katie Mumby
Poet: Adam Clay
Poem: Running an Errand
Media: Linocut in lavender and purple with letterpress on cream Arches paper

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The Authors

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Joy Priest

Joy Priest's debut collection, Horsepower, was released in 2020 on Pitt Poetry Series and won the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from AWP. She is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from APR, and her poems and essays have appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, The Atlantic, ESPN, Poetry Northwest and Poets & Writers, and have been anthologized in The Louisville Anthology (Belt Publishing, Sept. 2020) and Best New Poets 2014, 2016, and 2019, among others. She was a 2019-2020 poetry fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and is currently a doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

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Adam Clay

Adam Clay is the author of To Make Room for the Sea (Milkweed Editions, 2020),  Stranger (Milkweed Editions, 2016), A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012), and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Bennington Review, Georgia Review, Boston Review, jubilat, Iowa Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. He is editor-in-chief ofMississippi Review, a co-editor of Typo Magazine, and a Book Review Editor for Kenyon Review. He directs the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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