The Second O of Sorrow

Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. National advertising: Poets & Writers, American Poets, the Academy of American Poets newsletter, 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, The LA Times, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, BookForum, LA Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, NPR, etc. Outreach to blogs and online outlets for category features, including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, etc. for such themes as chronic illness, working-class life, Rust Belt economics, caregiving, etc. Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, etc. Spring announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,500+ contacts), Twitter (6,100 followers), Instagram (1,500+ followers), and Pinterest (550+ followers) accounts; print and e-postcards; print and e-materials; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic book announcement postcards will be sent to Sean’s list of academic contacts, reviewer contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 6,500+ 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 electronic and print editions via social media. Sean will attend the AWP Conference 2018 in Tampa, FL, where he will have an author signing. Sean has a cult following throughout the Rust Belt. He is particularly well connected at Mac’s Book in Cleveland, OH, White Whale Bookstore in Pittsburg, PA, Writers & Books in Rochester, NY, and The Downtown Writers Voice in Syracuse, NY. Sean has plans for a reading tour in Ireland in 2018 along with poet Kevin Goodan (Let the Voices, Red Hen Press, 2016). Plans for a multi-city book tour, including such places as Rochester, Syracuse, Pittsburg, Gettysburg, Cleveland, Akron, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Detroit, and elsewhere. Possible joint readings and events with Hari Levin Millan (CavanKerry), Patricia Smith (TriQuarterly Books), Richard Robbins (Lynx House Press), Kati Lanthier (Vehicule Press), Karen Craigo (Sundress Books), Matthew Guenette (University of Akron Press), Dorianne Laux (Red Dragonfly Press/W.W. Norton/BOA Editions), and Erika Meitner (BOA Editions). Promotion through the author's social media platforms and website.

A lyric narrative that celebrates the struggles, the joys, and the dignity of working-class life in the Rust Belt cities.Winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize Winner of the 2019 Housatonic Book Award for Poetry Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments—a night at a packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter planting a garden, a biography of LeBron James as a metaphor for Ohio—these poems take pride in the people who survive despite all odds, who keep going without any concern for glory, fighting with wit and grace for justice, for joy, every god damned day.