In order to secure a contract with this publisher, Stark must complete the five music-writing trials of The Method, each demonstrating a key component in both getting and keeping success. That is until eccentric young billionaire Sir Daniel Smith-Daniels swoops in and offers Stark an opportunity at his avant-garde publishing house, The Row. After being dropped as writer for MegaMusic Publishing, Stark thinks that his career is over. The Greatest Song combines sharp business advice with the compelling narrative of fictional singer/songwriter Jake Stark. This is a ticketed event, each ticket is valid for up to TWO guests and includes ONE copy of the book ¨The Greatest Song¨ that will be handed at the entrance of the event. His cumulative tally of album and song sales exceed 30 million copies and have been streamed over a billion times! Kevin Griffin is a world-renowned, multi-platinum recording artist, producer, and #1 songwriter whose songs have been performed and recorded by artists such as Taylor Swift, Sugarland, Dierks Bently, Blondie, Train, Daughtry, Christina Perri, The Beach Boys, Meatloaf and many more. Join us for the launch of The Greatest Song with Kevin Griffin! Follow KB online at miss out and sign up to our newsletter Knopf) will arrive in 2024, and they are a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow. They have earned fellowships from PEN America, Civil Rights Corps, and Lambda Literary among others. KB’s poems and essays are published in, Huffington Post, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Their chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the Saguaro Poetry Prize. KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. 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. 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. 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”. Deep Vellum is excited to present the launch of KB Brookins’s first full-length collection of poetry, Freedom House! This special launch event will feature readings from the author, as well as fellow poets Mag Gabbert, SG Huerta, and courtney marie, all on our gorgeous patio.

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