Warmer Welcomes: A CAAPP Summer Reading ft. Richard Hamilton & Joy Priest

Please join us virtually for an evening poetry reading centering two wonderful poets who've just made their way to Pittsburgh.

Richard Hamilton has been named the incoming CAAPP Creative Writing Fellow, and Joy Priest will be joining an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diasporic Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and as CAAPP's CCPP (Curator of Community Programs & Praxis) this Fall.

Come celebrate with us and help us give a warm summer welcome to two brilliant incoming poets to Pittsburgh & CAAPP.

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Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology, forthcoming from Sarabande June 20. 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, Kenyon Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books among others. Beginning Fall 2023 she will be an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diasporic Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and the Curator of Community Programs & Praxis at the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics.

Richard Hamilton was born in 1975 and grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey and Columbus, Georgia. Richard is the author of Rest of US published by ReCenter Press (2021) in Philadelphia. They are the recipient of fellowships and support from the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson City, Vermont and the Cave Canem Foundation in Brooklyn, NY. Richard holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama. Beginning in Fall 2023 will be CAAPP's 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow.