Press

I'm Always so Serious Reviews and Interviews 

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New York Times, From Newcomers and Veterans, Four New Poetry Books Worth Your Time

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New York Times, "Editor's Choice" 9 Books We Recommend This Week

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Publisher's Weekly Review, I'm Always so Serious

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Poetry Foundation/Harriet Books, I'm Always so Serious Review 

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Ploughshares, Dreams and Death in Karisma Price’s I’m Always So Serious

 

Book Riot, Poetry Books for Nonfiction Lovers

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Library Journal, I'm Always so Serious Review

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Library Journal, Celebrate National Poetry Month

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The Poetry Question, Review: I’m Always So Serious By Karisma Price

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The Hong Kong Review, I'm Always so Serious

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Four Way Review, INTERVIEW WITH KARISMA PRICE 

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Books Are Magic Interview (watch): Karisma Price in conversation with Terrance Hayes 

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I'm Always so Serious, The Spotify Soundtrack

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Ms. Magazine, Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of the Last Year

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Little Infinite, Interview With "I'm Always So Serious" Poet Karisma Price

 

 

General Interviews with Karisma Price

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Brooklyn Poets, Poet of the Week Interview

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The Tulane Hullaballoo, Professor Spotlight: Karisma Price 

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Cave Canem, DOGBYTES Interview: Karisma Price  

 

An Angry Reading Series, Quick Temper with Karisma Price 

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MAUDLIN HOUSE, Writer of the Week  

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Honors and Awards

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2023 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, "The Art of London Firearms," American Poetry Review

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Pushcart Prize Nomination, “I’m Always so Serious [I was spoiled by lavish thoughts]”, Southeast Review, 2022

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Best New Poets 2021 Anthology, “My Phone Autocorrects ‘Nigga’ to ‘Night,” Poetry Magazine, 

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Semifinalist, 2021 Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry, Adroit Journal

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The J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize, “My Phone Autocorrects ‘Nigga’ to ‘Night,” Poetry Magazine, 2020

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Best New Poets 2020 Anthology Nomination, “A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé,” Pigeon Pages, 

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Best of the Net Anthology 2019 Poetry Winner, “A Woman Yells ‘Maxine’ 14 Times Outside My Brooklyn Window,” Cotton Xenomorph, 2019

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Finalist, Manchester Poetry Prize, 2019

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30 Below 30 New and Emerging Authors List, Narrative Magazine, 2019

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Pushcart Prize Nomination, “Things That Fold,” Four Way Review, 2018

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Pushcart Prize Nomination, “I’m Always So Serious,” Tinderbox Journal, 2018

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Top Five Poems of the Week (2017-2018), “The Month Before Your Father Goes to Prison” (Published as “July, 2008”), Narrative Magazine, 2018

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Best of the Net Nomination, “Things that Fold,” Four Way Review, 2018

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30 Below 30 New and Emerging Authors List, Narrative Magazine, 2018

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Poem of the Week (2017-2018), “The Month Before Your Father Goes to Prison” (Published as “July, 2008”),   Narrative Magazine, 2018

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Cave Canem Retreat Fellow, Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry, 2018