Can I Kick It?

Galleys available 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, Latinx interest, and poetry outlets like Poetry Magazine, Poets & Writers, Buzzfeed, and others. Launch events in Chicago, Boston, and New York City Features in Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, South Side Weekly Feature interview on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and performance on PBS affiliate WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" Advertising in Poets and Writers, Wax Poetics, Poetry, Kenyon Review Submission to poetry awards Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's frequent speaking engagements, including national fall tour Promotion through social media: Haymarket Books has 50k Twitter followers and 50k Facebook fans

Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of our present and potential futures.“Can I kick it?” “Yes you can!” —A Tribe Called Quest Situated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and BreakBeat Poetry, Idris Goodwin’s work bridges the divide between the reader and the poet. Combining the tongue-in-cheek and the irreverent with the melancholy and incisive, Goodwin’s poetry samples and re-purposes pop-culture—from Back to the Future to Prince, Missy Elliot to Dominique Wilkins—in order to reflect and remix the stories we tell ourselves and each other in order to live.