Once a City Said

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Though focused exclusively on Louisville, it is a book of great national importance and interest. In the wake of 2020, a year in which many poets created work speaking to and through Louisville's social unrest, such a book is vital. Joy has established an excellent and successful reputation in the writing community at large, and for her book Horsepower, which centers around Louisville and the Kentucky Derby, no less. Her awards include: 2019 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from AWP, the 2022 Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry, a 2021 NEA Fellowship and the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review. This book has a lot of local and regional support. Writer Minda Honey received a $250, 000 grant to purchase visual art by Louisville artists to be housed in Sarabande's event space as a collaboration with the book. (Read more here: https://wfpl.org/four-artists-chosen-for-local-curators-program/) . We received $20, 000 in funding for this project from Fund for the Arts, $10k of which was matched and $10k of which was crowdfunded. We will also do a big book launch at Derby. Jack Harlow is going to blurb the book! So will Charles Booker, Ada Limon, and others. Some of the poets featured: Joy Priest, Hannah Drake, Mitchell L. H. Douglas, John James, Erin Keane, Erin L. McCoy, Ryan Ridge, and more.