Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins' formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking readers through different "rooms". The speaker isn't afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black/queer/trans in Texas, and more - all while using humor and craft. What does freedom look like? What can we learn from nature and our past? How do you reintroduce yourself in a world that refuses queerness? How can we use poetry as a tool in the toolbox that helps build freedom? This collection explores those questions, and manifests a world where Black, queer, and trans people get to live.

• Serial rights targeting Poetry, New Yorker, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Granta, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Ploughshares, NYT Magazine
• Promotion via the poet's extensive network of contacts in the literary world
• Targeted outreach to poetry reviewers and outlets, including the New York Times, Harriet Books
• Promotion at/events pitched for Texas Book Festival, Dallas Literary Festival, AWP, Winter Institute
• Multiple print galley runs targeting media and booksellers
• Multi-city tour with events in Texas, New York, and beyond
• Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); publisher's e-newsletter to booksellers, reviewers, librarians

About the Author

KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. Their chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the Saguaro Poetry Prize. KB's poems and essays are published in Poets.org, Huffington Post, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. They have earned fellowships from PEN America, Civil Rights Corps, and Lambda Literary among others. KB's debut memoir PRETTY (Alfred A. Knopf) will arrive in 2024, and they are a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow. Follow KB online at @earthtokb.

Reviews
"Brookins's debut full-length collection explores what it really means to be free in America, particularly as a Black, queer, trans writer living in Texas; their writing style is urgent and timely while still holding space for the possibility of a life lived on one's own terms." -Emma Specter, Vogue

"KB Brookins's Freedom House is an unapologetic, forward-dreaming manifesto for a better, shared future." -Chaney Hill, Southern Review of Books

Book Information
ISBN 9781646052639
Author KB Brookins
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing