The Tiny Journalist
Format:Paperback
Publisher:BOA Editions, Limited
Published:23rd May '19
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• Heavy publicity push to major dailies, weeklies, alternative publications, and public radio. • Galley mailing to key reviewers and media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. • Digital galleys available by request on Edelweiss+ 3-4 months prior to publication. • Advanced review copies and press materials sent to targeted list of 150-200 reviewers in February 2019. Additional review copies available by request: [email protected]. • National advertising: Poets & Writers, American Poets, and the Academy of American Poets newsletter. • Outreach to online media and bloggers including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, Literary Hub etc. for features on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, journalism in the Middle East, activism for peace, etc. • Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, BEA, etc. • Spring book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly. • Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website, blog, e-newsletter (7,400+ subscribers), Facebook (6,800+ followers), Twitter (8,000 followers), Instagram (2,200+ followers), and Pinterest (840+ followers) accounts. • Full-page feature in in-house catalog. • E-postcards will be sent to the author's professional contacts as well as BOA’s academic contacts, reviewer contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. • Simultaneous ebook and print publication. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed. • Simultaneous cloth and trade paperback publication. • Naomi is represented by Stephen Barklay Agency, who will manage her speaking tour for The Tiny Journalist. • Author Website: http://www.barclayagency.com/site/speaker/naomi-shihab-nye
Internationally celebrated poet places her Palestinian-American identity center stage, putting a human face on war, honoring courage, praying for peace.
“A moving testament to the impact one person can have and the devastating effects of occupation.”
—Washington Post Best Poetry Books of 2019
Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in her latest full-length poetry collection for adults. The collection is inspired by the story of Janna Jihad Ayyad, the "Youngest Journalist in Palestine," who at age 7 began capturing videos of anti-occupation protests using her mother's smartphone. Nye draws upon her own family's roots in a West Bank village near Janna's hometown to offer empathy and insight to the young girl's reporting. Long an advocate for peaceful communication across all boundaries, Nye’s poems in The Tiny Journalist put a human face on war and the violence that divides us from each other.
<“Nye demonstrates poetry’s ability to vividly portray the lives behind the headlines.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Incisive and unsparing, Nye's poems will buzz in readers' brains long after reading them.”
—Booklist
“On every page, Shihab Nye's insistent call is the same: people, all people, deserve to live safe and healthy lives, free from fear and violence. She mourns, rages, takes politicians to task, but always lands on the side of compassion.”
—Shelf Awareness
“While Naomi Shihab Nye’s newest book of poetry offers no easy answers, its questions push well beyond the margin of the pages. What happens when we’re reminded not just of human rights injustices but of the quotidian moments in the lives of those affected? Reminded that they too live in this very modern world, with wants and needs as expansive and equally as simple as our own?”
—World Literarure Today
“From her own understanding and research, her father’s stories and information gleaned from Janna’s posts, Nye creates poetry that imagines the turbulent life of a little girl in a world of war and injustice.”
—Ms. Magazine
“This book is more than a book of poems. It is a call for awakening.”
—Lone Star Literary Life
“This poet, always America’s sweetheart, has shared her life with us through her career, warmth, and wisdom — earning our validation — and now, even more, she makes emotion and the world meld, to give an in-depth analysis of her besieged land, letting us know how it appears from inside. In connecting the land and the sea, possibilities and tragedies, poetry reaches the high bar.”
—Washington Independent Review of Books
- Winner of Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement 2019 (United States)
- Winner of Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 (United States)
ISBN: 9781942683735
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128 pages