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We wanted to give you a quick update on the status of the Poulin Prize. Our esteemed judge Cornelius Eady has selected a winner! However... we need to confirm that the poet he selected will accept the prize before we make a formal announcement. We have a call in to that person (Hey, check your voice mail!) and will let you know the results as soon as possible. We're as eager to share the news as you are to hear it! [caption id="attachment_1407" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Cornelius Eady. Poulin Prize Judge."][/caption]

In case you haven't checked out literary blog The Rumpus in the past week, we are proud to inform you that Aimee Parkison's short story "Theater of Cruelty" from her latest collection The Innocent Party was selected for their Sunday Fiction series! Hop over to the Sunday Fiction page to give it a read. If you are unfamiliar with Aimee's work, now's your chance to get yourself acquainted; this atmospheric piece will have you pinned until the end. Aimee's amazing new collection The Innocent Party will be officially published in May. BUT, it can be purchased directly through BOA's secure...

[caption id="attachment_1141" align="alignleft" width="274" caption="Craig Morgan Teicher. BOA Author."][/caption] HTML Giant has turned their "Author Spotlight" on BOA author Craig Morgan Teicher. In the interview, Craig discusses his fable collection, Cradle Book, and says things like, "Sleep and fear have always been closely related to me. What is scarier than sleeping? Who knows what somebody will do to you while you’re sleeping? Or what you will do to yourself while dreaming. Oh—sleep is the scariest thing in the world. It’s like we die every day. To me, silence, fear and sleep are pretty much the same thing." If you think...

[caption id="attachment_1518" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="BOA author and NBCC finalist Aracelis Girmay"][/caption] "There is a saying in Spanish, "Cada cabeza es un mundo," which translates "every mind is a universe unto itself." And Girmay's world, universe, opens new ways of seeing the simplest things and giving them voice. Everything contains some clue of another self, body or kindred spirit. Like an archeologist, she digs deeply finding herself in every living thing, even in the inanimate. Her magic is poetry at its best." So concludes Gregg Barrio's article on National Book Critics Circle finalist and Isabella Gardner Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay's Kingdom...

The Texas Institute of Letters has named the finalists for their annual awards. We're pleased to say that Transfer by Naomi Shihab Nye is a finalist for the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry! Dallas News Reports: "The Texas Institute of Letters has been promoting the state's best writers since 1936... The competition is limited to authors who have lived in the state for at least two years or have entries pertaining to Texas subjects. Not surprisingly. some of the best-known writers in the state -- such as Stephen Harrigan, C.W. Smith and Naomi Shihab Nye -- are among...