I’m Always So Serious, a debut poetry collection of Karisma Price, assistant professor of English at Tulane, was published in February by Sarabande Books. Price’s poems center on Blackness, family and loss and weave personal and public histories into a cultural reckoning of the past and present. Price has received several fellowships and was a finalist for the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize. She was the recipient of the 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation.
