• Galleys available
  
  
• CBSD galley box
  
  
• National TV, radio, and print campaign, including interviews, features, and reviews
  
  
• Review copies sent to major dailies like New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc. as well as online, Latinx interest, and poetry outlets like Poetry Magazine, Poets & Writers, Remezcla, Buzzfeed, Mic, and others.
  
  
• Launch events in Chicago, Boston, and New York City
  
  
• Features in Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, South Side Weekly
  
  
• Feature interview on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and performance on PBS affiliate WTTW's "Chicago Tonight"
  
  
• Advertising in Poets and Writers, Wax Poetics, Poetry, Kenyon Review
  
  
• Submission to poetry awards
  
  
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author’s frequent speaking engagements, including national fall tour 
  
  
• Promotion through social media: Haymarket Books has 30k Twitter followers and 45k Facebook fans

“Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it.” —Eve Ewing, author of Electric Arches

In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in. Olivarez has a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch.

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. He is a co-host of the podcast, The Poetry Gods. A winner of fellowships from Poets House, The Bronx Council On The Arts, The Poetry Foundation, and The Conversation Literary Festival, his work has been published in The BreakBeat Poets and elsewhere. He is the Marketing Manager at Young Chicago Authors.