Whelmed

Co-op available Galleys available National radio campaign: outreach to various NPR and CBC shows National print campaign: outreach to Artforum, Bookforum, Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, Kirkus, Poetry Magazine, The Globe & Mail, The Boston Review, The Paris Review, The LA Review of Books Online/social media campaign: outreach to The Millions, Full Stop, PANK, Jacket2, BITCH magazine Promotion through author's connection to literary and academic organizations Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the authors' speaking engagements Ephemera: a 3D button or a button with an excerpted visual poem on it.

Whelmed delights in shaping new sentences and paragraphs that welcome neologisms into their lexicon.Dulge, rageous, couth, chalant-we think of prefixes as a few letters that change a word, but what if a word is lost without one? Each prose poem in Whelmed features a word that has been unhinged from its prefix, allowing new meanings-radically unfamiliar, yet uncannily intimate-to emerge from these prefixless word deposits. Part prose-poem sequence and part encyclopedia of unpredictably irregular terms, Whelmed is at times deranging, almost disturbing, sometimes detached, and ultimately joyfully disrupting. Nicole Markotic is a poet, novelist, and critic. She is currently a professor of creative writing, children's literature, and disability studies at the University of Windsor in Ontario.