Promotional Information

Media:
A trailer for the book itself plus multiple videos for select poems will be produced. Different celebrities from the TMR family will be contacted to participate.We will be approaching several celebrities such as actor John C. Reilly plus musicians Tom Waits and DC Berman (Silver Jews) to record Stanford poems for videos and/or mp3s. We will also approach them for blurbs about the book.

Events:

There will be a launch party at AWP 2015 with Copper Canyon for the book.

There will be a launch party at Third Man Records in Nashville, Tn for the book.

Reviews and Publicity:

Copper Canyon and TMB will be doing joint publicity, including reference to What About This in Hidden Water and vice versa. Finished books will be sent to New York Times, New Yorker, Rain Taxi, The Volta, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, NPR, and more

Social Media:

*TMB and TMR use all social media platforms regularly to post reviews, excerpts and profiles related to TMB authors. For instance, we posted a poem a day from Language Lessons for the month prior and after the release. We also have sent exclusive audio downloads of select authors to our Vault subscription service. This download is always accompanied by blurbs, photos, links to relevant sites, and author bio.

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About the Author

Frank Stanford (1948-1978) was a prolific poet known for his originality and ingenuity. He has been dubbed "a swamprat Rimbaud" by Lorenzo Thomas and "one of the great voices of death" by Franz Wright. He grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, and then Arkansas, where he lived for most of his life and wrote many of his most powerful poems.

Steve Stern's novels and story collections include Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction, and The Wedding Jester, which won the National Jewish Book Award. His stories have been included in the Pushcart and O.Henry Prize anthologies.

Editor, translator and publisher, Michael Wiegers's previous titles include This Art, The Poet's Child, and Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (co-edited with Monica de la Torre). He is poetry editor of Narrative Magazine, and serves as Executive Editor at Copper Canyon Press.