Rootwork Journal Presents: A Virtual Book Reading, Joy Priest & Jari Bradley in Conversation

Come hear selections from Joy Priest's, HORSEPOWER. Renown poet Jari Bradley will open the event.

About this Event
Joy Priest is the author of HORSEPOWER (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of the 2020 Kunitz Prize and her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, APR, The Atlantic, Poetry Northwest, and Poets & Writers, among others. Priest has been a journalist, waitress, and fast-food worker in Kentucky, and has facilitated writing workshops and arbitration programs with adult and juvenile incarcerated women. She holds a MFA with a Certificate in Women & Gender Studies from the University of South Carolina, and is currently a doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
Jari Bradley is a black genderqueer poet and scholar from San Francisco, California. They have received fellowships and support from Callaloo, Cave Canem, Tin House, The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments. Their work has been nominated for Best of the Net by The Offing, and was a finalist for Columbia Journal's Fall 2019 Contest in Poetry. Jari has work published or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Blood Orange Review, The Offing, Academy of American Poets, Callaloo, Columbia Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Jari Bradley (MFA: University of Pittsburgh) is the current 2020-2021 First Wave Poetry Fellow at UW-Madison.

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