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"

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

New Poem in Harvard Review

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

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 📚💙

First time seeing my book in the wild with the @whitingfoundation.bsky.social sticker on it!

Awesome! Congrats @karismaprice.bsky.social! Bookmarked

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...

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.

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!

I want to be softer, I’m trying to say. —Ross Gay, from “Infinity” in The Book of Delights

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.

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

This week is too much already.

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

My poem, Castnet Seafood (bringing more poems from "the other" app) poets.org/poem/castnet...

This is the money Marge. Reskeet for good fortune. 💰

Anyone else watched The Madness starring Colman Domingo? Every five seconds I kept yelling at the TV because that handsome man kept making the wrong decision!

Hello everyone I'm a domestic abuse survivor. I had to quit my job a few weeks ago because of a toxic work environment. I need financial support. If you can help me survive I would be grateful. Thank you 🙏🏾💜 Venmo Nikki-Wallschlaeger

Poetry question: How do you know when something should be a long prose poem or a regular free verse poem?

Today would have been Chadwick Boseman’s 48th birthday.

Whoa.

#poetry "My nights live in America to remind you of me."

Elphaba: Maybe the opps were the "friends" we made along the way. #wicked

Bringing my poems over to to Bsky. Here's what I consider my magnum opus (for now).

Trying to find the right words while writing this poem. Feeling like T.I. with this thesaurus.

Just a reminder that Black poetry in the US begins with Black women poets! Congrats to all of these Gwendolyn Brooks Permissions Living Legacy poets & to all of the Black women poets writing our literature into the 21st century!

Y'all should hear this too.

Wonderful interview with @karismaprice.bsky.social about her astoundingly good debut collection.

Thank you to Country Roads Magazine for interviewing me about my poetry collection, "I'm Always so Serious." countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-cult...

Created a Starter Pack for Black Southern Poets & Writers to follow. Let me know if you want to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/BeuHQme

Congratulations to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something About Living!

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...

Created a Starter Pack for Black Southern Poets & Writers to follow. Let me know if you want to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/BeuHQme

I want to create a starter pack of Black Southern Poets/Writers. Anyone want to be included?

Unc is here to bring the 🦋s and 🌈s!

I want to create a starter pack of Black Southern Poets/Writers. Anyone want to be included?

Okay so why did no one tell me Ta-Nehisi Coates was this tall?