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
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From a new poem by @karismaprice.bsky.social, written after watching a 1999 performance of “Melodies from Heaven” by Kirk Franklin
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September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From a new poem by @karismaprice.bsky.social, written after watching a 1999 performance of “Melodies from Heaven” by Kirk Franklin
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New Poem in Harvard Review
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New Poem in Harvard Review
I wrote a poem in defense of Kirk Franklin and his dancing for Oxford American.
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Intercession for Kirk Franklin
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September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote a poem in defense of Kirk Franklin and his dancing for Oxford American.
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For the August crowd: My first published short story!
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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"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...
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...
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August 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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!
August 16, 2025 at 8:21 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!
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
Got to meet Tank from Tank and the Bangas and gave her a copy of I'M ALWAYS SO SERIOUS
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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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#poetry #bookSky 📚💙
Breathtaking, literally and otherwise! The whole book, actually!
🌟✨🌟
#poetry #bookSky 📚💙
July 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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 📚💙
Breathtaking, literally and otherwise! The whole book, actually!
🌟✨🌟
#poetry #bookSky 📚💙
First time seeing my book in the wild with the @whitingfoundation.bsky.social sticker on it!
June 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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
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...
"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...
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...
joylandpublishing.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Awesome! Congrats @karismaprice.bsky.social! Bookmarked
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Let’s go, Karisma!
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...
"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...
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...
joylandpublishing.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Let’s go, Karisma!
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...
"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...
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...
joylandpublishing.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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...
"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...
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CONGRATULATIONS to @karismaprice.bsky.social and all the 2025 Whiting Award winners! ✨✨✨
April 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
CONGRATULATIONS to @karismaprice.bsky.social and all the 2025 Whiting Award winners! ✨✨✨
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Congratulations to @karismaprice.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Poetry! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...
April 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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.
March 13, 2025 at 9:17 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.
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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
My new poem "Gossip" in this newest edition of Gulf Coast Journal. Thanks so much for accepting it!
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
My new poem "Gossip" in this newest edition of Gulf Coast Journal. Thanks so much for accepting it!
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I want to be softer, I’m trying to say.
—Ross Gay, from “Infinity” in The Book of Delights
—Ross Gay, from “Infinity” in The Book of Delights
January 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I want to be softer, I’m trying to say.
—Ross Gay, from “Infinity” in The Book of Delights
—Ross Gay, from “Infinity” in The Book of Delights
We need to put Reba McEntire in a Knives Out movie.
December 28, 2024 at 10:12 PM
We need to put Reba McEntire in a Knives Out movie.
I just think going to that place Queen Latifah went to in Last Holiday would heal something in me.
December 28, 2024 at 5:37 AM
I just think going to that place Queen Latifah went to in Last Holiday would heal something in me.
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I'm in the new issue of Underbelly Magazine! See my micro-essay on revision as well as an early draft and the final version of one of my "I'm Always so Serious" poems. Thanks to
@mayamarshall.bsky.social & Marty McConnell for including me.
www.underbellymag.com/karisma-price
Karisma Price — underbelly
this is the page that highlights the work of the poets whose poetry editing and poetry revision process we are featuring
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December 12, 2024 at 10:01 PM
I'm in the new issue of Underbelly Magazine! See my micro-essay on revision as well as an early draft and the final version of one of my "I'm Always so Serious" poems. Thanks to
@mayamarshall.bsky.social & Marty McConnell for including me.
www.underbellymag.com/karisma-price
I'm in the new issue of Underbelly Magazine! See my micro-essay on revision as well as an early draft and the final version of one of my "I'm Always so Serious" poems. Thanks to
@mayamarshall.bsky.social & Marty McConnell for including me.
www.underbellymag.com/karisma-price
Karisma Price — underbelly
this is the page that highlights the work of the poets whose poetry editing and poetry revision process we are featuring
www.underbellymag.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:01 PM
I'm in the new issue of Underbelly Magazine! See my micro-essay on revision as well as an early draft and the final version of one of my "I'm Always so Serious" poems. Thanks to
@mayamarshall.bsky.social & Marty McConnell for including me.
www.underbellymag.com/karisma-price
This week is too much already.
December 10, 2024 at 3:25 AM
This week is too much already.
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Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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December 10, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.