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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.

If you search for "BOA Editions" on YouTube you'll come across all sorts of cool videos of our authors reading at different venues. But now BOA has our very own YouTube Channel - and we're about to start packing it with some high quality literary viewing! Our first offering is from BOA's "Poetry is Jazz" event, held at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center on June 16th 2010, featuring BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty and the ABC quartet. This video (I really want to call it a documentary because it's certainly more than just a straightforward videotaping) was done by Icon Creative. We give...

[caption id="attachment_957" align="aligncenter" width="227" caption="Anne Germanacos. BOA fiction author."][/caption] This link takes you to a beautifully clear video of Anne Germanacos reading from her new story collection, In the Time of the Girls. The reading took place on October 5th, 2010 at the Simon Pearce Gallery in Quechee, Vermont. You do have to download the video to watch it, but I highly recommend doing it. There are so many grainy, poor sounding author readings online - it's a treat to watch one with real production value and the fiction is, of course, knock out. (BTW, all you profs and teachers,...

The Write Question is an NPR show that, "explores the world of writing and publishing in the Western United States." Poulin Prize-winning poet Keetje Kuipers appears on the show today to talk about (and read from) her book, Beautiful in the Mouth, and the writing life. Listen to the show here: [Keetje Kuipers on the Writing Life] Here's the program's introduction to the feature: Keetje Kuipers has a unique way of creating poetry: she walks and puts words to the rhythms of her strides. Once in a while, if a poem gets too long, she'll grab an advertisement out of someone's mailbox and...