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A couple days ago, Minnesota Reader posted a review of Reindeer Camps by Bart Sutter. The author of the review, Mike Link, warns of the difficulty to write reviews of poetry, but that doesn't stop him from giving a thorough and honest rundown of the book that we'd love to share with you! The review discusses the book in its sections, or "chapters if it was prose." The first section examines darker things, the ones that "challenge our perspectives." There were certainly tons of quotes from the book, always handy with a line or two to support one of the...

We would like to celebrate the birthday of one of the world's most distinguished poets, the late Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936, -- February 13, 2010), who would have been 76 today. Born in Depew, New York, Ms. Clifton is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry and more than sixteen children's books, written expressly for an African American audience. Though her list of awards and recognitions is staggering, even more remarkable is the love she has elicited from her readers. National Book Award and Ruth Lilly Prize winner, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist (in the same year!),...

BOA Editions has five new publications coming this Fall: The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (September 11), To Keep Love Blurry by Craig Morgan Teicher (September 11), Theophobia by Bruce Beasley (October 16), Diadem by Marosa di Giorgio (November 13), and Passwords Primeval by Tony Leuzzi (November 13). We're hard at work bringing these wonderful publications to life, and super excited for all of these new additions to the BOA family! In an effort to share the excitement with you (why should we have all the fun?), we're putting some spotlight on one of our forthcoming books, revealing to you some of our...

[caption id="attachment_1832" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Teicher, author of the forthcoming "To Keep Love Blurry""][/caption] Fall is (distantly) on its way, and with it are some spectacular new collections from BOA! One such collection is Craig Morgan Teicher's To Keep Love Blurry, which was recently praised by Library Journal for its refreshing balance of formality and playfulness. Check it out! Library Journal writes: "The majority of poems in this new work from Teicher... employ form in the best sense of the word-- as a frame, not a crutch... When at his best, Teicher's poems are formal and--as a welcome bonus-- amusing." To...

This Tuesday, June 26 at 6 p.m., BOA Editions presents an evening of Poetry, Jazz, and Art at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo). The event is free and open to the public, and will take place during the Rochester International Jazz Festival, one of the largest jazz festivals in the world! Featured will be BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty, author of Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (BOA 2010) and Broken Hallelujahs (BOA 2007). Dougherty's work utilizes a variety of experimental and traditional forms including canzone and elliptical poems, and explores questions of multiracial identity, the complexities of...