• National advertising: Academy of American Poets Newsletter

• Outreach to online media and bloggers including New York Times, Lambda Literary, and The Rumpus.

• Excerpts in American Poetry Review, Dreginald, Foglifter Journal, Four Way Review, Glass: A Poetry Journal, New England Review, Orion, Paris Review, POETRY, Poetry Northwest, Poets.org, Southeast Review, Sporklet, The Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, The Shallow Ends, Tinderbox Journal, TriQuarterly, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Washington Square Review, and Winter Tangerine.

• eBooks will be available on the print publication date.

• Promotion through the author’s website and social media: www.lutherxhughes.com/ & @lutherxhughes on Twitter

• Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA’s website, blog, e-newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. Giveaway and takeover planned through BOA’s Instagram.

Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from the threat of depression and death through love and desire.

Hughes draws readers into a Seattle that is heavily entrenched in violent anti-Blackness, and full of vulnerable and personal encounters from both the speaker’s past and present. With reverent and careful imagery, Hughes fashions deeply saturated, tender vignettes that reckon relationships between family and friends, lovers, nature, and the police-state.

A Shiver in the Leaves is stunningly cinematic in its layered portrayal of the never-ending dualities of a queer Black poet’s life in the city. Hughes's interrogation of selfhood renders a sharply intimate and viscerally powerful reimagining of what it means to be alive in a body, and what it can mean to live.