J Walking Through the Alphabet

ARCs sent to sales reps as well as in galley box to indie bookstores 

Digital ARCs sent to media for national print, radio, and online campaign

Social media campaign, with the book promoted by key literary influencers focusing on Black literature and interested in performance and protest art. 

Promotion on Nightboat’s e-newsletter and interview on Nightboat Blog

Submission to major literary and book awards

Launch event in Cleveland and NYC

Email [email protected] for physical galleys

A much-anticipated collection of poet and visionary artist julie ezelle patton’s experiments with text and image. 

It’s here! The first ever collection of legendary poet and performer julie ezelle patton collected works. patton, who came into her own as a multidisciplinary artist between the late 70’s-90’s in New York’s East Village describes herself as a self-fashioned old skool political spiritualist, non-consumerist, and principled jester. Over the decades, she has been known as a performance and installation artist, incorporating written, visual, and sound elements often composed in the moment. Her work has appeared in small publications but has long been elusive. Now, this fantastic selection of patton’s pioneering experimental work with texts, books, phonemes, and nature invites readers to bask in her mercurial spirit as she welcomes us into her prismatic, interdimensional digs.