I'm Always so Serious

This collection is incredible. The poetry is smart, cunning. It is wise on a cultural level, but it is also deeply personal. This all shows, too, in the recent praise Price has been receiving; ¿My Phone Autocorrects `Niggä to `Night,¿ won the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry, and it earned a spot in the 2021 Best New Poets Anthology. Price is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Tulane University. Previously, she was an adjunct at NYU, a personal assistant to Saeed Jones, and a paid research intern at MSNBC for the Melissa Harris-Perry Show. She earned her BA and MFA at Columbia. She has been a Cave Canem Retreat Fellow, appeared in Best of the Net, and been named a finalist for the Manchester Poetry Prize. As her manuscript suggests, she and her family lived through Hurricane Katrina. We evacuated about 3 days before the storm hit, lived in Mississippi for about a month and then lived a year in Dallas. She moved back to New Orleans in 2006 but her family was homeless for about a year after and living in a hotel because our home was destroyed. This book is already a confirmed selection for Melbäs ¿Lunch and Literacy¿ program, run by Jane Wolfe in New Orleans. For this, the restaurant buys about 100 copies of the book and then gives them out to anyone who comes in that day. Readers also get to meet the author. Past featured authors have included Colson Whitehead, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Broom, Clint Smith, etc..