Priest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational.

Edited by Erin Keane What is Louisville’s identity in the twenty-first century? Is it the Southernmost Midwestern city, the Midwestiest Southern town, or somewhere in between? Living on the border of...

An anthology of writers' experiences living, working and writing in "the New South," examining issues of sex, gender, academia, family, immigration, health, social justice, sports, music and more.

Entering its fifteenth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual

——— contest winner ——— My Father Teaches Me How to Slip Away Clarence Carter on in the background & there I sit, in my mother’s white Plymouth Stolen in the open, under advisement of This country’s...

Simone Biles demonstrates that even one of the most decorated Americans in our society can’t get a proper institutional response to sexual assault and predatory…

A Literary Mapping of Horsepower by Joy Priest (Winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry) by Allison Pitinii Davis

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower, winner of the 2019 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in ESPN, Gulf Coast, Mississippi Review, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best...

The author of Horsepower suggests putting aside knowledge and focusing on unlearning.

The author of Horsepower examines and resists the racism and subconscious anxieties that infect the U.S. literary imagination. 

A poem for Sunday

The author of Horsepower reimagines the bildungsroman to honor the narrative arc of Black childhood. 

“I didn’t put my hands on nobody, I didn’t deserve to get shot.” Perhaps out of all the tears, the fanning, the long pauses to gather herself, this is what made…

The author of Horsepower recalls the tricks that helped her revise and assemble her collection.