The Unbnd Collective was founded by Karisma Price and Kwame Opoku-Duku in 2017. Among its chief goals are to provide safe spaces for black writers, and other writers of color, to create and share their work, as well as to establish relationships with fellow writers of color in and around New York City.  

Karisma is the official Poet Laureate of the Unbnd Collective. Check out more of her work here or below.

Kwame is the official Hype Man of the Unbnd Collective. He will run up on you if you talk loud during Karisma's set. 

Selected Poems

Karisma Price – “My Phone Autocorrects ‘Nigga’ to ‘Night,’” Poetry Magazine

Karisma Price – “Reflections after Attending a Birthday Party," wildness

Karisma Price – “Can’t Afford Sadness in a Time Like This,” The Adroit Journal

About Karisma

Karisma Price is an Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University. A poet, screenwriter, and media artist, she is also the author of I'm Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023).

Karisma's work has appeared in publications including Poetry, Indiana Review, Four Way Review, wildness, and Adroit Journal. 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.

A native New Orleanian, she holds an MFA in poetry from New York University—where she was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow.

Learn more about Karisma at www.karismaprice.com

For bookings, or other inquiries, contact Karisma at kp1365@nyu.edu