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Karisma Price
@karismaprice.bsky.social
2025 Whiting Award Winner | I'm Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023), NYT Editor's Choice Pick | Poet | Cave Canem| she/her
New Poem in Harvard Review
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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.
September 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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!
August 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Got to meet Tank from Tank and the Bangas and gave her a copy of I'M ALWAYS SO SERIOUS
August 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
First time seeing my book in the wild with the @whitingfoundation.bsky.social sticker on it!
June 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My poem, "In Defense of Brother John (1971)" is in the Poet Lore Ekphrastic Folio, curated by jason b. crawford. When the film first came out, it received negative reviews. But the film itself feels like a lyric poem and is a cool blend Blaxploitation and Southern Gothic.
March 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My new poem "Gossip" in this newest edition of Gulf Coast Journal. Thanks so much for accepting it!
January 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This week is too much already.
December 10, 2024 at 3:25 AM
My poem, Castnet Seafood

(bringing more poems from "the other" app)

poets.org/poem/castnet...
December 6, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Bringing my poems over to to Bsky. Here's what I consider my magnum opus (for now).
November 28, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Y'all should hear this too.
November 25, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Come hear me read at the New Orleans Words and Music Festival. 11/22nd 6:00pm. André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice

Poetic Reflections on “Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration."

www.eventbrite.com/e/poetic-ref...
November 20, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Okay so why did no one tell me Ta-Nehisi Coates was this tall?
November 17, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Newest book buys!
November 15, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Excited to read these!
December 30, 2023 at 2:31 AM
Let Us Descend into Black Abundance
November 11, 2023 at 4:03 AM
TW: gun violence

My poem, "The Art of London Firearms," which won the 2023 Stanley Kunitz Prize from APR. We need better gun control.
August 30, 2023 at 9:05 PM