When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Chen Chen

Description

Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication.

National advertising: Poets & Writers, American Poets, the Academy of American Poets newsletter, Rain Taxi, and Redactions.

National print campaign: 100+ finished books will be mailed to key review outlets, specifically targeting Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The LA Times, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, Bookforum, LA Review of Books, PBS Newshour, NPR, etc.

Outreach to blogs and online outlets for category features, including Buzzfeed, Bustle, etc. for such themes as LGBT (Pride Month), Asian American poets, etc.

Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, etc.

Spring announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly.

Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,500+ contacts), Twitter (6,100 followers), Instagram (1,500+ followers), and Pinterest (550+ followers) accounts; print and e-postcards; print and e-materials; and print and e-catalogs.

Electronic postcards to announce book publication will be sent to Chen's academic contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers.

Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 6,500+ contacts.

Ebook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed. Publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media.

Author will attend the AWP Conference 2017 in Washington, DC, where he will have an author signing. Chen also regularly attends the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and the Round Top Poetry Festival in Texas.

Plans for a multi-city book tour, including such places as Charleston, SC, and in Texas and the Northeast.

Chen has strong personal and professional contacts in such places as Amherst, MA, Newton, MA, Syracuse, NY, and Lubbock, TX, where he will likely set up readings and author events. He is particularly well known at LHUCA, an art gallery in Lubbock, TX, which has a reading series; Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX; Barnes & Noble in Lubbock, TX; Newtonville Books in Newton, MA; Trident Bookstore in Boston, MA; and Amherst Books in Amherst, MA.

Possible joint readings and events with Jericho Brown (Copper Canyon Press), Bruce Smith (University of Chicago Press), William Wenthe (LSU Press), Aracelis Girmay (BOA Editions), Sarah Gambito (Persea Books), Craig Morgan Teicher (BOA Editions), Joseph O. Legaspi (Cavankerry Press), David Tomas Martinez (Sarabande), Solmaz Sharif (Copper Canyon Press), Hieu Minh Nguyen (Coffee House Press), and Kaveh Akbar (Alice James Books).

Blurbs and endorsements from Jericho Brown and other acclaimed poets.

Promotion through the author's social media platforms and website: www.chenchenwrites.com.

The recipient of the 2016 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Chen has been awarded fellowships from Kundiman, the Saltonstall Foundation, Lambda Literary, and in 2015, he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.

Chen is already well known in the poetry community, especially among emerging poets. His poems have been widely published in journals and chapbooks, and his work has received significant attention from such places as PBS NewsHour ("Chen Chen on writing poetry while Chinese, American, and gay," April 2016).

One of the book's main strengths is its ability to speak to different audiences and/or multiple levels of readership: the poetry newbie and the poetry professor. The book carries accessible language, humor, pop culture references, and narrative arcs, but also plenty of intellectual references for poetry aficionados.

The author's race, sexuality, and immigration status are inextricably tethered to the book, which is one of its strengths.

There is a "New York School of Poets" quality to Chen's poetry, similar to that of Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, and Kenneth Koch. His writing on identity (particularly for queer persons of color) ties his poems to those of Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong, and Derrick Austin, among others.

Sujets

• National Book Award
• American
• Asian
• Poetry
• Chinese
• Social sciences
• Asian American
• Queer studies
• América
• LGBTQ+
• Gay Studies

Informations

• Publié par: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Date de parution: 11 avril 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781950774777
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 325 Mo

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