The End of Pink

FFF co-op available. Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. National advertising: Poets & Writers magazine, American Poets magazine, Rain Taxi, and Redactions. National print campaign: 100 finished books will be mailed to key review outlets, specifically targeting Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, etc. Fall announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Will pitch the author for readings and events at regional bookstores, festivals, trade shows, etc. Blurb endorsement from Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Angela Elam, producer and host of radio show New Letters on the Air, (Kansas City, MO) will air an interview with Kathryn Nuernberger on the book in fall 2016. New Letters is the longest continuously-running broadcast of a national literary radio series, with more than 1,200 programs by many of the world’s most prominent writers. A feature-length review of the book by Adam Day is slated to run in a fall 2016 issue of Cincinnati Review. Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,300+ contacts), Twitter (5,500 followers), Instagram (1,200+ followers), and Pinterest (500+ followers) accounts; print and e-postcards; print and e-materials; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic postcards to announce book publication will be sent to academic contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 5,500+ contacts. Ebook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed. Publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media. January 2017 is the 125th anniversary of “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Since this book has a strong theme of motherhood poems and alludes to post-partum depression, this could be an effective marketing hook for The End of Pink. Author will attend the AWP Conference 2017 in Washington, DC, where she will have an author signing. Nuernberger is widely known in the literary community, and is currently seeking opportunities for joint readings with: Wayne Miller (Milkweed Editions, new book coming in fall 2016); Jennifer Givhan (Pleiades Press, new book coming in fall 2016); Claire Bateman (New Issues, new book coming in fall 2016); Nance Van Winckel (Pleiades Press, new book coming in fall 2016); Maya Zeller (Lost Horse Press); Laura Read (Pittsburgh Press); Nicky Beer (Carnegie Mellon); and Alexandra Teague (Persea). Nuernberger is well-known at such bookstores as: Left Bank Books in St. Louis, MO; Subterranean Books in St. Louis, MO; Auntie’s in Spokane, WA; Yellow Dog Books in Columbia, MO; and Prospero’s in Kansas City, MO. Promotion through the author's email, Facebook and Twitter accounts, and website (currently in-the-works).

Using fact and folklore, James Laughlin Award-winning poems plumb the marvelous and weird to understand childbirth, parenthood, death, and--of course--joy.Winner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End of Pink is populated by strange characters--Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin--all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for a way to understand childbirth, parenthood, sickness, death, and--of course--joy. Finding myself in a mesmeric orientation, before me appeared Benjamin Franklin, who magnetized his French paramours at dinner parties as an amusing diversion from his most serious studies of electricity and the ethereal fire. I like thinking about how he would have stood on tiptoe to kiss their buzzing lips and everyone would gasp and clap for the blue spark between them. I believe in an honest and forthright manner, a democracy of plain speech, so I have to find a way to explain I don't care to have sex anymore. Kathryn Nuernberger has lived in various corners of Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, and Montana. Her first book, Rag & Bone (Elixir Press, 2011), was a love letter to backwoods junk collectors and all of the abandoned cabins in the foothills to the Ozark Mountains. An unapologetic dilettante, she has received research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and The Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life to research aspects of the history of science and medicine. She currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, teaches at the University of Central Missouri, and serves as the director of Pleiades Press.