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A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.
About the author
Britteney Black Rose Kapri is a Chicago performance poet and playwright. Currently she is an alumna turned Teaching Artist Fellow at Young Chicago Authors. She is also contributer for Black Nerd Problems and Pink Door Retreat Fellow. She is a 2015 Rona Jaffe Writers Award Recipient.
Summary
A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.
Foreword
- Galleys available
- CBSD galley box
- 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, Black interest, and poetry outlets like Poetry Magazine, Poets & Writers, Ebony, Jet, Blavity, Buzzfeed, Mic, 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 30k Twitter followers and 45k Facebook fans
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“This brazen debut is good medicine and a needed shout in the world. Black Queer Hoe makes it clear Britteney Black Rose Kapri is a poet we must pay attention to, taking up the reigns of many spoken word and literary ancestors and charging forward into poetics unafraid to be ratchet and bare.”
—Danez Smith, author of Don’t Call Us Dead
“Britteney Kapri writes with the tenacity of your favorite emcee and the gumption of your most outspoken Auntie. In her first full-length collection, Black Queer Hoe, Kapri opens the entire conversation with the (un)justification of being labeled a Hoe and the womxn reader will find themselves gasping after each line, these poems serve as a re-introduction to our reflections. As profound as Eartha Kitt, as futuristic in her feminism as Grace Jones as positively unabashed about her body as Josephine Baker and as lyrically provocative as Cardi B; Kapri's multi-genre'd poetic offering is a new home for those unafraid of this brave cruel world.”
—Mahogany L. Browne, author of Black Girl Magic and co-editor of The BreakBeatPoets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
“Britteney Kapri is a stunningly talented writer whose words reach out from the page and grab you around the throat one minute while pulling you into a hug in the next. This book is incredible.”
—Samantha Irby, author of Meaty
