Citizen

In Citizen Aaron Shurin has collected sixty-eight vibrant new poems that are by turns romantic, visceral, edgy, and unabashedly beautiful.

Print: Pitch a combination of reviews/interviews/excerpts: SF Chronicle, SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Bookforum, New York Review of Books, Boston Review, Rain Taxi, Poetry Magazine, American Poet, Bloomsbury Review, Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, LA Times, NY Times, The Nation, New Yorker, Poetry Flash, Poets and Writers Magazine, St Marks Poetry Project Newsletter. We'll send to top poetry reviewers who freelance for the major publications that review poetry (New Yorker, NY Times, etc.): Adam Kirsch, Stephen Burt, David Orr, William Logan, Dan Chiasson, etc. We'll also send to gay interest publications. And to his alumni mag at UC Berkeley. We will contact the communications dept. at USF (where he teaches). They should help spread the word among staff, students, and alumni. We'll send to the trades: PW, Booklist, and Library Journal.

Web: Rumpus (reviewed his previous book), Poetry Daily, BOMB, Silliman's blog, Complete Review, Constant Critic, Conversational Reading, Electric Review, Elegant Variation, Identity Theory, NYer's Book Bench, Bookslut, and Shelf Awareness.

Radio: KPFA Cover to Cover, Writer's Almanac.

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