We will be welcoming American poet and scholar Joy Priest to the Mnemosynes stage on Thursday, October 31st at 19h30 at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité). Please join us in listening to her poetry and helping her celebrate her first trip to Paris. A conversation and Q & A will follow the reading.
Featured Poet
Poet and scholar Joy Priest is from Louisville, Kentucky and currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series), selected by Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande). Joy is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review, and her poems and essays have appeared in the Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Sewanee Review, among many others. She is an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diasporic Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Curator of Community Programs & Practice at the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics (CAAPP).