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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · 19d

New Poem in Harvard Review

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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Sep 4

Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Sep 4

Also, this is a poem from a three poem series, so if anyone does know Kirk Franklin personally, please put me in contact with him because I would like to interview him on his music and composition process for a journal piece.

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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Sep 4

The concept of belief and movement is sensual, provocative, and vulnerable. When he performs, we're watching someone in the midst of both a breakthrough and a breakdown using his body as the balm for his own healing. There is no such thing as too rowdy when the music hits.

Intercession for Kirk Franklin

Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Sep 4

I wrote a poem in defense of Kirk Franklin and his dancing for Oxford American.

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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Aug 26

For the August crowd: My first published short story!

Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Jun 24

Big news! My first short story is published. Thanks to Joyland for publishing and @kwamethethird.bsky.social for editing!

"Karisma Price writes about the prison system, vengeance, and a woman trying to care for a son in a world that never protected her."
:
joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what...

They led the men in the church shackled to each other, them big rifles flirting with they backs. They sounded like a choir of Black bells jingling to the alter. They brought them men for labor and for...

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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Aug 16

Here's the trailer for the documentary that I am featured in called "Hope in High Water: A People's Recovery Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina” by Trymaine Lee It comes out August 22nd on Peacock. Please support!

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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Aug 4

Got to meet Tank from Tank and the Bangas and gave her a copy of I'M ALWAYS SO SERIOUS

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · Jul 13

Self-Portrait in I'm Always So Serious by @karismaprice.bsky.social (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social, 2023)!!
Breathtaking, literally and otherwise! The whole book, actually!
🌟✨🌟
#poetry #bookSky 📚💙

The cover of I'm Always So Serious shows an artwork by Delita Martin: "The Girl Inside," composed by using various techniques and materials. The piece covers nearly the entirety of the book cover: full-body, frontal portrait of a pouting Black girl in a white summer dress, her blue shadow/silhouette behind her, to her right, and another white silhouette of her to her left, seemingly in front because of the light/dark contrasts of the piece. There are dots, balls, and sphere-like shapes of various colors and solidity printed across everything.

Self-Portrait
after Chen Chen

As happiness, As the wailing tambourine
that replaced my uncle's gun, As the dancing
it does when he waves it at the man who cut him
off, As the rattle of pills in my father's
hands to slow the multiplying cells,
As me thinking something can be
holy, As a pig, As a poem that doesn't mention
the word father or water or drowned,
As a lie as red as a crow's mouth,
As a streetlight whose bulb never breaks,
As a mother who has a child who's allowed to be
nothing more than their age, As weeknight curfew,
As reparations, As a new car, As a down payment,
As the bay leaf inside the pot of red beans boiling
on Mardi Gras day, As a Zulu coconut, As something
so dark you have no other option but to call it
precious, As a sibling, As a rotten tooth,
As an aunt who has warmed the leftovers
of our family before sundown, As whatever's
left of my skeleton after the family pet
has sucked the sorrow from every bit of my marrow.

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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Jun 27

❤️❤️❤️

Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Jun 27

First time seeing my book in the wild with the @whitingfoundation.bsky.social sticker on it!

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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you 👍🏿

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · Jun 25

Awesome! Congrats @karismaprice.bsky.social! Bookmarked

Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Jun 24

Big news! My first short story is published. Thanks to Joyland for publishing and @kwamethethird.bsky.social for editing!

"Karisma Price writes about the prison system, vengeance, and a woman trying to care for a son in a world that never protected her."
:
joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what...

They led the men in the church shackled to each other, them big rifles flirting with they backs. They sounded like a choir of Black bells jingling to the alter. They brought them men for labor and for...

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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you!

Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Jun 24

❤️❤️❤️

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Annell López @annelllopez.bsky.social · Jun 24

Let’s go, Karisma!

Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Jun 24

Big news! My first short story is published. Thanks to Joyland for publishing and @kwamethethird.bsky.social for editing!

"Karisma Price writes about the prison system, vengeance, and a woman trying to care for a son in a world that never protected her."
:
joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what...

They led the men in the church shackled to each other, them big rifles flirting with they backs. They sounded like a choir of Black bells jingling to the alter. They brought them men for labor and for...

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Karisma Price @karismaprice.bsky.social · Jun 24

Big news! My first short story is published. Thanks to Joyland for publishing and @kwamethethird.bsky.social for editing!

"Karisma Price writes about the prison system, vengeance, and a woman trying to care for a son in a world that never protected her."
:
joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what...

They led the men in the church shackled to each other, them big rifles flirting with they backs. They sounded like a choir of Black bells jingling to the alter. They brought them men for labor and for...