The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

Galleys available CBSD galley box National TV, radio, and print campaign, including interviews, features, and reviews Review copies sent to major dailies like New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc. as well as online, Black interest, and poetry outlets like Poetry Magazine, Poets & Writers, Ebony, Jet, Blavity, Buzzfeed, Mic, and others. Major launch events in Chicago, Boston, Oakland, and New York City Advertising in Poets and Writers, Wax Poetics, Poetry, Kenyon Review Promotion at the 2018 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference Submission to poetry awards Publicity and promotion in conjunction with editor and contributor speaking engagements Promotion through social media: Many contributors have large following on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, Haymarket Books has 17k Twitter followers and 29k Facebook fans Promotion on the series website www.breakbeatpoets.com

A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.“[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years.”—Latino Rebels Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club, and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form. Poet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, and graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores blackness, womanhood, and the city of Chicago. Mahogany L. Browne is a Cave Canem and Poets House alumna and the author of several books including Smudge and Redbone. She directs the poetry program of the Nuyorican Poets Café. Idrissa Simmonds is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, The Caribbean Writer, Fourteen Hills Press, and elsewhere. She is the 2014 winner of the Crab Creek Review poetry contest, and a New York Foundation for the Arts and Commonwealth Short Story Award Finalist.