Poet & Media Artist
Publications
Poetry, Essays, Interviews
POETRY
2023
Bitter Southerner, “12-Year-Old Harry Connick Jr Speaks to James Booker” and “After the 1916 Film”
Poetry Daily, “James Booker Speaks to Ringo Starr about His Bodyguard Taking His Eye”
Poem-a-Day Series, Academy of American Poets, “Castnet Seafood”
2022
Oxford American, “The Maple Leaf Piano Speaks to The Bayou Maharajah” (Web & Print Country Roots Issue)
Southern Indiana Review, “Poem at the End of the World (Or Last Week’s Dream)” & “All Day We’ve Been Speaking in the Dark” (Print)
American Chordata, “Peripeteia” (Print)
Indiana Review, "Sempiternal: To the Future of a Crescent City" (Print)
Southeast Review, "And" and "I'm Always so Serious [I was spoiled by lavish thoughts]"
Titled House Press, "I'm Always so Serious: The Golden Shovel" pg. 16-17
Zócalo Public Square, "What's it Like Escaping Something Trying to Kill You"
2021
The Southampton Review, "We Wear Each Other's Names" (Print)
2020
Poetry Magazine, "My Phone Autocorrects 'Nigga' to 'Night'"
2019
The Adroit Journal, "Can't Afford Sadness in a Time Like This"
Pigeon Pages, "A Woman Lovingly Strokes Her Lover’s Arm in the Bookstore" and "A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé"
2018
The Boiler, "Things I Should Be Ashamed of But Am Not"
Glass: A Journal of Poetry, "What Do You Have Left to Say?" (published as The Poet’s Conscience Speaks)
Tinderbox Poetry Journal, "Jesus is so quiet" and "I'm Always so Serious [which is to say in the winters I dream]"
Narrative Magazine, "The Month Before Your Father Goes to Prison" (published as July, 2008) and "An Elegy Beginning and Ending with a Mouse"
Wildness, "All the Men I Love" (published as Reflections After Attending a Birthday Party) and "For My Brother"
Four Way Review, "Things That Fold"
Cotton Xenomorph, "A Woman Yells 'Maxine!' 14 times Outside My Brooklyn Window"
Luna Luna Magazine, "God of burning scalp" & "Demeter, Reimagined as a Black Woman, Speaks to Persephone"
INTERVIEWS & ESSAYS (written by Karisma)
2022
TIDAL MAGAZINE ISSUE 14 TEAR SHEET
2016
ROOKIE MAGAZINE
ISSUE 48: GIVE & TAKE
The Other Talk: Blackish confronts the emotional effects of police violence
2015
ROOKIE MAGAZINE ISSUE 55: CULT OF PERSONALITY
On Returning: Going home to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
INTERVIEWS, PRESS, AND AWARDS (about Karisma)
INTERVIEWS
Best New Poets 2021 Anthology, “My Phone Autocorrects ‘Nigga’ to ‘Night,” Poetry, 2021
Semifinalist, 2021 Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry, Adroit Journal, 2021
The J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize, “My Phone Autocorrects ‘Nigga’ to ‘Night,” Poetry, 2020
Best New Poets 2020 Anthology Nomination, “A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé,” Pigeon Pages, 2020
Best of the Net Anthology 2019 Poetry Winner, “A Woman Yells ‘Maxine’ 14 Times Outside My Brooklyn Window,” Cotton Xenomorph, 2019
Finalist, Manchester Poetry Prize, 2019
30 Below 30 New and Emerging Authors List, Narrative Magazine, 2019
Pushcart Prize Nomination, “Things That Fold,” Four Way Review, 2018
Pushcart Prize Nomination, “I’m Always So Serious,” Tinderbox Journal, 2018
Top Five Poems of the Week (2017-2018), “The Month Before Your Father Goes to Prison” (Published as “July, 2008”), Narrative Magazine, 2018
Best of the Net Nomination, “Things that Fold,” Four Way Review, 2018
30 Below 30 New and Emerging Authors List, Narrative Magazine, 2018
Poem of the Week (2017-2018), “The Month Before Your Father Goes to Prison” (Published as “July, 2008”), Narrative Magazine, 2018
Cave Canem Retreat Fellow, Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry, 2018
HONORS & AWARDS
All Videos
All Videos
Karisma Price - National Poetry Month 2020
New Orleans Poetry Festival: Local Poets Night 2022
Karisma Price - The Lunch Tray Series Ep.1
