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Live Early Stages: Joy Priest and Bernardo Wade in Conversation
Sunday, July 12 // 11:30am EST
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The Tiny Tent's Live Early Stages is thrilled to welcome Joy Priest for a poetry reading and conversation with Bernardo Wade. Winner of the 2019 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from AWP, and the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review, Joy is the author of Horsepower, a powerful and gorgeous series of poems exploring themes of race, gender, and class through communities, families, and locations in Louisville, Kentucky.

Bernardo Wade, a rising New Orleans born creative, hails from a family of poets. He is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Indiana University, and his work is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue.

About Joy:

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, Sept. 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from AWP. She is the recipient of the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets 2014, 2016, and 2019, among others. Her essays have been published or are forthcoming in ESPN, Poets & Writers, and A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South (Hub City Press, Oct. 2020). She received her B.S. in Print Journalism from the University of Kentucky, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing, with a Certificate in Women & Gender Studies, from the University of South Carolina. She is currently a doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Houston. 

About Bernardo:

Bernardo Wade, a rising New Orleans born creative, hails from a family of aesthetes. He is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at IU, and his poetry is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue and others.