Visiting Writers Series: Joy Priest

Joy Priest
 
Author of HORSEPOWER (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020) winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
 
Wednesday Jan. 12, 2022
7:00pm
Hardymon Theatre

329 Rose St, Lexington, KY 40508










Joy Priest is the author of HORSEPOWER (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2021 NEA fellowship and a 2019-2020 Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and has won the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from APR, and the Gearhart Poetry Prize from The Southeast Review. Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Atlantic, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Her essays have appeared in The Bitter Southerner, Poets & Writers, ESPN, and The Undefeated, and her work has been anthologized in Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, The Louisville Anthology, A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South, and Best New Poets 2014, 2016 and 2019. Joy received her M.F.A. in poetry, 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.  

 

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Harymon Theatre, 329 Rose St, Lexington, KY 40508

A&S Faculty, Students Receive UK Office of Sustainability Awards

By Carlie Laughlin

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 11, 2021) — University of Kentucky students, faculty and staff from every area of campus are leading exciting, sustainability-focused programs. These programs provide high-impact research and learning opportunities for students and faculty, have significant positive environmental and economic impacts on operations, and provide resources and support for a foundation of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion at UK and across the Commonwealth. 

Hall of Distinguished Alumni (Paul R. Wagner)

Left to right, Arts & Sciences inductees Steven Beshear, Paul R. Wagner, Alan Lowe, Jim Duff, Ashley Judd, and Interin Dean Christian Brady

 

On September 28, 2021, the University of Kentucky inducted 27 former students into the 2020 Hall of Distinguished Alumni. The alumni are being honored for their meaningful contributions to the Commonwealth, nation, and the world. The prestigious event, held every five years, was postponed last year due to pandemic restrictions.

Free Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Erik Reece

Award winning author and UK professor, Erik Reece, will discuss the craft of Creative Nonfiction, and choose a couple of participants' written excerpts to analyze in-depth.



Q&A about CNF and UK's MFA program will follow.



Register here: https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_avKJ0ZdzRMKHE3w0bhDYwQ

Erik Reece is the author of AN AMERICAN GOSPEL: ON FAMILY, HISTORY AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD and LOST MOUNTAIN: A YEAR IN THE VANISHING WILDERNESS, which won Columbia University's John. B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the Sierra Club's David R. Brower Award for Environmental Excellence. His work has appeared in HARPER'S, ORION, THE OXFORD AMERICAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor at ORION magazine and is currently at work on a book-length argument for the preservation of UK's own Robinson Forest, called THE EMBATTLED WILDERNESS.

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Zoom

Phillis Rambsy: From Accidental Attorney to 2021 English Alumna of the Year

By Julie Wrinn

Phillis Rambsy (M.A. 1999) grew up in Jackson, Tennessee, and attended Spelman College in Atlanta surrounded by English majors who planned to attend law school. But for Rambsy, also an English major, going to law school just felt too obvious. “I was sick of people talking about law school. So many English majors go to law school, and I felt that was all I heard people talking about was LSATs and law school rankings,” said Rambsy.

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