TWC Live! Marketing Your Poetry Collection

AWP and The Writer’s Chronicle are excited to bring you our next TWC Live! conversation on Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. ET! Join poets, editors, and publicists for an expansion of last December’s conversation from The Writer’s Chronicle on marketing your poetry collection. Natasha Kane of Trio House Press, Cassie Mannes Murray of Pine State Publicity, Rebecca Hart Olander of Perugia Press, and Karisma “Charlie” Tobin of TRP: The University Press of SHSU will discuss ways for poets to connect with readers. What is a good marketing strategy for a poetry collection? How can marketing be less scary?

Be part of the live audience for this practical and lively discussion of what we often don’t talk about when we talk about poetry: how to market it. This free online event is open to all and begins at 7:00 p.m. ET on AWP’s YouTube channel. It will last around an hour, with the final fifteen to twenty minutes set aside for questions from virtual attendees. This programming is free and available to both AWP members and nonmembers.

About the Panelists

Natasha Kane is a Thai American writer, editor, marketer, and educator. She is the associate editor of Trio House Press, and her work in publishing has been recognized in BookCAMP’s 40 Under 40 in Publishing. She is the former editor in chief of The Talon Review and currently serves as their marketing faculty advisor, while teaching at the University of North Florida as a visiting instructor.

Cassie Mannes Murray believes equally in delivering cold emails and cold pizza. She is the founder and director of Pine State Publicity, a publicity firm for independent and small press books. You can always find what she’s up to in the Pine State newsletter. Her mom calls it “weirdly rambling.” Before launching Pine State, she was a literary agent, an MFA graduate in creative nonfiction, a book designer, a Best American Essays notable, a coordinating editor at a lit mag, a high school teacher, and once even a laundromat drive-thru gal. When she isn’t talking books, she’s a mom to three kids, married to the guy she met on Myspace in high school, and living underneath some big oaks in North Carolina.

Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in On the Seawall, Poetry Northwest, and Shō Poetry Journal, and her books include Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021), a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, and Singing from the Deep End (CavanKerry Press, 2026). A Women’s National Book Association Poetry Award winner, Olander’s work has been supported by Straw Dog Writers Guild and the Mass Cultural Council. She recently served as the James Merrill Visiting Poet at Amherst College, works with graduate student poets at Wilkes University, and is the publisher at Perugia Press.

Karisma “Charlie” Tobin grew up in the mountains of New Mexico and Alaska. She is currently the operations manager at TRP: The University Press of SHSU. Her work appears in NonBinary Review, Hunger Mountain, Interim, Plainsongs, and others, including a roundtable in The Writer’s Chronicle. Tobin holds an MFA in creative writing, editing, and publishing and an MA in English language and literature, both from Sam Houston State University.