Joy Priest

Joy Priest is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. She has received grants and fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Rutgers University-Newark, where she is an MFA in Poetry candidate. Her poems have appeared or are upcoming in Best New Poets 2014, Vinyl, Drunken Boat, Muzzle, and The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, among others.

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    Blue Heart Baby

    I think I am weak & without purpose, // your father texts you from the kitchen, sauced up, / after he rolls his heavy body over the loaded

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