My Father Teaches Me How to Handle a Pistol
Spell to Reverse Loss of Memories
Joy Priest’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Drunken Boat, Muzzle, and Best New Poets 2014, among others. She is the winner of the 2016 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers and has received grants, scholarships, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the University of South Carolina, where she is a writing instructor and MFA candidate in poetry. 
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