Karisma Price

CALLING ALL AWP ATTENDEES!! Don't miss our featured panel Neurodivergent Poets on Their Writing Lives on Thurs., 3/5 at 12:10pm ET. Featuring Stine An (@stine.bsky.social), Lauren Haldeman (@haldini.bsky.social), Alina Stefanescu (@alinaetc.bsky.social) and Karisma Price (@karismaprice.bsky.social).

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Ya'll better buy @ralpheeboi.bsky.social book! Take my word for it. I blurbed it!

Shoutouts to the wonderful @karismaprice.bsky.social for the kind blurb.

excited to be reading there!!

How am I only just now discovering @karismaprice.bsky.social (and her debut collection I'm Always So Serious)? Grateful to my new colleague for bringing her to my attention & helping to bring her to our campus to read in January, because I cannot stop reading & rereading these extraordinary poems!!

🚨New Poem Alert 🚨 Thank you to The Nation @thenation.com for publishing my poem, "Ars Poetica with Backup from The Clark Sisters"

A cross hangs from the side of the building with neon lights that read: "Jesus Saves"

From a new poem by @karismaprice.bsky.social, written after watching a 1999 performance of “Melodies from Heaven” by Kirk Franklin

🔗: https://shorturl.at/DY0z1

thank you!

New Poem in Harvard Review

@oxfordamerican.bsky.social

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.

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

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

oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

For the August crowd: My first published short story!

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!

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

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.

Self-Portrait in I'm Always So Serious by @karismaprice.bsky.social (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social, 2023)!!
Breathtaking, literally and otherwise! The whole book, actually!
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First time seeing my book in the wild with the @whitingfoundation.bsky.social sticker on it!

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Awesome! Congrats @karismaprice.bsky.social! Bookmarked

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Let’s go, Karisma!

What Love Makes of Us 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...

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."
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joylandpublishing.com/fiction/what...

WINNER OF RHE WHITING AWARD

I’M ALWAYS SO SERIOUS POEMS KARISMA PRICE BRILLIANT TERRANCE HAYES

CONGRATULATIONS to @karismaprice.bsky.social and all the 2025 Whiting Award winners! ✨✨✨

Congratulations to @karismaprice.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Poetry! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

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.