Galleys available
Review copies sent to major dailies like New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc. as well as online, Black interest, and poetry outlets like Poetry Magazine, Poets & Writers, Ebony, Jet, Blavity, Buzzfeed, Mic, and others.
Launch events in Chicago, Boston, and New York City
Features in Poets & Writers, Teen Vogue, For Harriett, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed, Shondaland
Advertising in Poets and Writers, Poetry, Kenyon Review
Promotion at the 2019 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference
Submission to poetry awards
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements
Promotion through social media: Haymarket Books has 40k Twitter followers and 48k Facebook fans
Promotion on the author's website http://clfelix.com/
2019 National Book Award Longlist
“With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling.”
—Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro
This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.
Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.