Significant bound galley printing for booksellers. Additional eGalley distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through Edelweiss and targeted email campaignsNational print and online campaigns, targeting coverage in major newspapers and magazines as well as literary journals, websites, and blogs. We will aim for special coverage surrounding National Poetry Month (which is also the book’s pub month), and we will also target feminist outletsAdditional promotional support from outlets where some of these poems first appeared in print (eg The New Yorker) and from author’s alumni organizations (Stanford University, Purdue University, etc.)Excerpts in: The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Journal, The Missouri Review, The Adroit Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Northwest Review, Southeast Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Washington Square ReviewTour may include Dodge Poetry Festival and AWP; other cities for event pitches are: Chicago and Champaign, IL, Cincinnati, OH, Austin, TX, Portland, OR, and Stanford, CA.Reading group guide development and book club outreachSimultaneous eBook publication and promotionPromotion through the author’s and press’s website and social media platforms
A brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham.
Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: “Reader, I married him.” Spanning the first years of a marriage, the speaker in Reader, I both courts and eschews nuptial myths, as its speaker—tender and callous, skeptical and hopeful, daughter and lover—finds a role for herself in marriage, in history, in something beyond the self. While these poems burn with a Plathian fire, they also address and invite in a reader who is, as in Jane Eyre, a confidant. Steeped in a world of husbands and fathers, patriarchal nations and power structures, Reader, I traverses bowling alleys and hospital rooms, ancient Troy and public swimming pools, to envision domestic life as a metaphor for civic life, and vice versa.
