Prior to the book's release we will offer free audio downloads of poems
Represented by Blue Flower Arts, Monet does dozens of events each year.
100 galleys for pitches to music (Wax Poetics, URB), literary (Poets and Writers), race-oriented (ColorLines) and political outlets
magazine in the country)
Advertising in Poets and Writers, Wax Poetics, Poetry, Kenyon Review
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements
Presence at the Association of Writing Programs conference
Submission to all applicable poetry awards
Promotion through social media: Aja Monet has 11k Facebook fans, 11k Twitter followers, and 11k Instagram followers, Haymarket Books has 11.5k Twitter followers and 16k Facebook fans
Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.
