Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She has received support from The Frost Place, The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she was a 2019 - 2020 Fellow in Poetry. 

 

This poem is the winner of the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, an award established by APR to honor the late Stanley Kunitz's dedication to mentoring poets.