Galley mailing to reps, media, WITS and creative writing programs, prison education groups/programs; Social media influencer campaign to promote the book; Pitch editors for for print, podcast, radio and TV interviews; Promote through literary networks and previous connections from author's last 5 single author poetry collections and her newest YA titles;Pitch excerpts and reviews to New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, New Yorker, Harper's, La Raza, Washington Post, and more
The long form poem is a practice of poetics in joy, gratitude, sadness, resilience and pain. This literary work serves as a practice of self-reflection and accountability in the wake of the prison system. This poem is dirge work acknowledging unjust atrocities, but reveling in our human resilience.