Breathing Technique

Coop available;

Advance galleys to Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, NPR;

Featured title during 40th anniversary of Zephyr Press and anniversary events;

Review and feature article campaign to 40-50 publications, including poetry, Slavic/Eastern European, feminist, mainstream;

Featured title at AWP, Boston Book Fair, Brooklyn Book Festival, ALTA, Association of Slavic and Eastern European Studies conference;

Eblasts to creative writing, Slavic/Eastern European Studies departments;

Social media campaign on FaceBook and Twitter;

Potential core text for Slavic, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing courses;

Reading tour for Marija Knežević and translator Sibelan Forrester to several east coast cities;

Special attention to secure events at Michigan State University, Swarthmore College, and Columbia University (large Serbian Studies program)

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Knežević fearlessly addresses contemporary concerns (refugees, colonialism, women’s issues) and personal ones (love, life’s choices) with poignancy and wit.One of Serbia’s most important living writers, Marija Knežević writes poems that often read as narratives, replete with characters, humor, pathos, and unexpected twists. Readers will meet a father and daughter frolicking on a Mediterranean beach during the continuing refugee crisis, or an Inca girl whose world will be destroyed by “milk-colored people,” or a beloved worldly heiress who wears men’s pajamas. Knežević also writes more classical lyrics about love, relationships, writing (or the blocks to writing), and an ample range of other topics. Her work fearlessly and frequently addresses current events and social issues, both in urban Belgrade where she lives, and more global concerns.