An Evening with Erin Hoover & Karisma Price

Join us Sunday, December 3rd at 4 pm for an evening with Erin Hoover and Karisma Price!

This event is co-hosted with Lmnl Lit.

This event is free and open to the public and will be held upstairs at Blue Cypress Books.

Karisma Price is a poet, screenwriter, media artist, and author of I’m Always so Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023). Her work has appeared in Oxford American, Poetry, Four Way Review, wildness, Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, was a finalist for the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize, and was awarded the 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation. She is from New Orleans, Louisiana, and holds an MFA in poetry from New York University where she was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. She is currently an assistant professor of poetry at Tulane University.

Erin Hoover is the author of Barnburner (Elixir, 2018) and No Spare People (Black Lawrence, 2023). She is an assistant professor of English at Tennessee Tech University and a single parent living in rural Tennessee, where she curates and hosts the monthly, in-person reading series, Sawmill Poetry, and produces the “Not Abandon, but Abide” interview series for the Southern Review of Books.