Archive for the ‘Audio/Video’ Category

For National Poetry Month, BOA is excited to be partnering with Rochester’s local public radio station WXXI who will be airing a segment called Poetry Minutes for the week of April 10-16. The segment will feature BOA poems by Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, Cecilia Woloch, Michael Waters, Keetje Kuipers, and Christopher Kennedy! The readings will be broadcast at 6:59 p.m. on Classical 91.5, 90.3 and 91.5 HD, and at 7:29 p.m. on AM 1370 and FM 91.5-2, or you can also listen to them on the WXXI site here:

[WXXI POETRY MINUTES]

At the recent AWP conference in Washington D.C., PBS NewsHour was generous enough to film writers reading their work. This week the PBS NewsHour features BOA’s very own Craig Morgan Teicher. Here is Craig reading “The Virtues of Birds” from Cradle Book.

Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour.

You can also read the text here

Here at BOA, we know our authors are great writers. That’s why they’re BOA authors! But it’s always thrilling to learn about their hidden talents as well. For instance, John Gallaher has been creating a series of videos inspired  by his new poetry collection, co-authored with G.C. Waldrep, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts. Not only do the videos provide added insight into the poems… they’re also just very, very cool videos in their own right. Now he’s topped himself by creating a full-blown short film (about 14 minutes) the combines all the short clips into one compelling piece.

John Gallaher, Filmmaker. Who knew? 

Watch the video here [Your Father on the Train of Ghosts - film version]

John Gallaher. BOA poet.

Let it be known that on Friday, December 3rd, FuturPointe Dance came to BOA’s holiday gala and rocked the house. See for yourself! This is a video of the dance they choreographed as an interpretation of the poem”The City in Which I Love You” by Li-Young Lee. Keep in mind, they’re performing in a small hallway outside the BOA office and basically no one watching even knew this was about to happen. Talk about a nice surprise!

The featured dancers are: N’jelle Gage, William Knighten, Melinda Phillips, Heather Roffe, and Guy Thorne.

The art projection you see in the background was done by Guy Thorne

For more about FuturPointe visit: www.futurpointedance.org

Watch the video here: [FuturPointe Dance at BOA Editions] 

FuturPointe Dance at BOA Editions

Naomi Shihab Nye. BOA Poet.

We’re thrilled to announce that BOA will publish Naomi Shihab Nye’s new poetry collection, Transfer, in September 2011!

Naomi is a long-time BOA author and a bona fide American  poetry treasure. If you ever get the chance to hear her read… take it. We guarantee that her voice and presence will stay with you for many, many moons afterwards.

Here’s a little taste of what we’re talking about. The Academy of American Poets just posted a clip of Naomi reading the poem “Alive” from the Transfer collection. Enjoy!

[Naomi Shihab Nye reads "Alive"]

In this longer clip, Sean Thomas Dougherty gracefully reads a poem full of fall colors, while the ABC quartet plays low, autumnal tones behind him.

[Click here to watch video. . .]

BOA poet, Anne Germanacos talks with Michael Krasny from KQED radio on the Forum. They discuss many things literary including her latest collection In The Time Of Girls. Her work has appeared in over 60 literary reviews and anthologies. Germanacos shares stories about her time studying in Greece , where she eventually met her husband. She reads a story out of the new book titled “Twenty-nine Stones for You to Hold” and “Until We Go To Sleep.”  Michael Krasny is extremely taken by the prose, calling it musical and poetic in nature; it is human: filled with pain, frustration and the ever elusive moments of peace.

Please click here and listen to this beautiful, imaginative, and intriguing literary conversation.

Enjoy!

Sean Thomas Dougherty reads a poem inspired by and named after the old jazz standard, “Embraceable You,” [click here to view video] from his book Broken Hallelujahs published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2007.

The ABC Quartet follows the reading with a beautiful, instrumental version of the song.

[Click here to watch the band play. . .]

The reading continues [click here to view video]. . . Sean Thomas Dougherty shares another selection from Broken Hallelujahs during BOA Editions, Ltd. “Poetry is Jazz” event at RoCo.

Please check out the second chapter [Please click here to view video]

from our “Poetry is Jazz” event at RoCo last June. In this installment BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty reads a poem from his book Broken Hallelujahs over a time-lapse video of artist Steve Smock creating an improvisatory painting.