Ep. 12 | Happy Birthday, Read Appalachia!
It’s Read Appalachia’s Birthday! Host Kendra Winchester is joined by special guests David Joy and Joy Priest.
Things Mentioned
Interview with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (Reading Women)
Interview with Leah Hampton (Reading Women)
Interview with Bernard Clay (100 Days in Appalachia)
Books Mentioned
Horsepower by Joy Priest
Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology edited by Joy Priest
Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
Where All the Light Tends to Go by David Joy
When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
The Line That Held Us by David Joy
The Weight of the World by David Joy
Hold It ‘Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Serena by Ron Rash
Give Us a Kiss by Daniel Woodrell
Lady Chevy by John Woods
Lighthouse Burning by Jordan Farmer
Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
Tamp by Denton Loving
A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter by Nikki Giovanni
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson
Trampoline by Robert Gipe
Guest Info
(c) Ashley T. Evans
David Joy is the author of When These Mountains Burn (winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award), The Line That Held Us (winner of the 2018 SIBA Book Prize), The Weight of This World, and Where All Light Tends to Go (Edgar finalist for Best First Novel). Joy lives in Tuckasegee, North Carolina.
(c) Joy Priest
Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), selected as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry by the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande, 2023).
She 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. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as in commissions for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Los Angeles County Museum of Arts.
Joy was born in Louisville, KY, and is an Affrilachian Poet. She has facilitated creative writing workshops with incarcerated juvenile and adult women. In Fall 2023, she will join the faculty in the University of Pittsburgh Writing Program as an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diasporic Poetry and the Curator of Community Programs & Praxis at the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics.
