Poetry
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2020
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"My Phone Autocorrects 'Nigga' to 'Night'" Poetry Magazine
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2019
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"Can't Afford Sadness in a Time Like This" The Adroit Journal
"A Woman Lovingly Strokes Her Lover’s Arm in the Bookstore" & "A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé" Pigeon Pages
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2018
"Things I Should Be Ashamed of But Am Not" The Boiler
"The Poet’s Conscience Speaks" Glass: A Journal of Poetry
"Jesus is so quiet" Tinderbox Poetry Journal
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"I'm Always so Serious" Tinderbox Poetry Journal
"July, 2008" Poem of the Week, Narrative Magazine
"Reflections After Attending a Birthday Party" Wildness
"For My Brother" Wildness
"Things That Fold" Four Way Review
"An Elegy Beginning and Ending with a Mouse" Narrative Magazine
"A Woman Yells 'Maxine!' 14 times Outside My Brooklyn Window" Cotton Xenomorph
"God of burning scalp" & "Demeter, Reimagined as a Black Woman, Speaks to Persephone" Luna Luna Magazine
"This Is a Song for the Good Girl (or the Lonely)" LEVELER
2017
"C.J. Peete, Magnolia 2004" Vinyl
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Essays
The Other Talk: Black-ish confronts the emotional effects of police violence ROOKIE MAGAZINE
On Returning Going home to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina ROOKIE MAGAZINE
Awards/Press/Interviews
Professor Spotlight: Karisma Price The Tulane Hullaballoo
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DOGBYTES Interview: Karisma Price Cave Canem
Quick Temper with Karisma Price An Angry Reading Series
Pushcart Prize Nomination "Things that Fold," Four Way Review, 2018
Pushcart Prize Nomination "I'm Always So Serious," Tinderbox Journal, 2018
Best of the Net 2018 Nomination "Things that Fold," Four Way Review (issue 13)
2018 Narrative Magazine's 30 Below 30 New and Emerging Authors List Narrative Magazine
Writer of the Week MAUDLIN HOUSE, 2018
2018 Cave Canem Retreat Fellow Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry
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