• Digital galley campaign, with galleys available for major media, poetry media, women's media, booksellers and librarians; digital galleys available for download on Edelweiss
• Media outreach, positioning this as an accessible book that explores the role of caregiver from the perspective of a daughter caring for her aging and disabled father, battling the convoluted health care systems, for readers of Maggie Smith and Ada Limón
• Bookseller outreach, with focus on accounts that sell poetry widely, as well as stores in Ohio, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Iowa City, Seattle and Minneapolis
• Cover reveal and preorder social media campaign in collaboration with Gramercy Books in Columbus
• Newsletter promotion via the publisher to readers, sales and academic lists of more than 30K contacts, with special emphasis on academic channel for course adoption
• Major virtual launch in Columbus

From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.

In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a “fatal diagnosis,” how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body “meant to bend & breed” opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless? Why do we think our “common griefs” so singular? Bad Hobby is a hard-earned meditation on questions like these—a dreamscape speckled with swans, ghosts, and weather updates.

Fagan writes with a kind of practical empathy, lamenting pain and brutality while knowing, also, their inevitability. A dementing father, a squirrel limp in the talons of a hawk, a “child who won’t ever get born”: with age, Fagan posits, the impact of ordeals like these changes. Loss becomes instructive. Solitude becomes a shared experience. “You think your one life precious—”

And Bad Hobby thinks—hard. About lineage, about caregiving. About time. It paces “inside its head, gazing skyward for a noun or phrase to / shatter the glass of our locked cars & save us.” And it does want to save us, or at least lift us, even in the face of immense bleakness, or loneliness, or the body changing, failing. “Don’t worry, baby,” Fagan tells us, the sparrow at her window. “We’re okay.”