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As hardcore book fans know, the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award will be announced tonight. No matter the results, we are so proud that Aracelis Girmay's astounding new collection Kingdom Animalia is among the finalists. The book was published in fall 2011 as winner of BOA's biennial Isabella Gardner Award and was immediately honored as a Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection. In the few months since publication, Kingdom Animalia has garnered rave reviews and many, many fans. We count ourselves among those fans. On behalf of everyone at BOA, we wish Aracelis Girmay good luck tonight and...

For the past year, BOA has been waging a guerilla poetry campaign around our home city of Rochester, NY. We've "popped up" at art galleries, the public market, inside stores and on the street. The idea is simple - go where people are congregating, stand up and proudly read a BOA poem. The campaign continued last weekend with BOA board member Jonathan Everitt and BOA marketing/production manager Al Abonado reading poems from Selected Poems by BOA founder Al Poulin at the opening of an exhibit of Robert Marx paintings at Rochester Contemporary Art Center. Don't adjust your computer (or your...

Jillian Weise Wins the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award Rochester, NY—Jillian Weise has been awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for her new collection, The Book of Goodbyes. Her book will be published by BOA Editions in fall 2013. This award is given biennially to a poet with a new book of exceptional merit. Manuscripts are solicited and there is no formal submission process for this award. Poet, actress, and associate editor of Poetry magazine, Isabella Gardner (1915-1981) published five celebrated collections of poetry and was the first recipient of the New York State Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for Poetry....

BOA authors [from left]: Christopher Kennedy, Michael Waters, and Keetje Kuipers,  who will peform readings at the convention.  Readers, writers, and other literary enthusiasts, take note: The NeMLA 43rd Annual Convention is set to take place March 15-18 in Rochester, NY, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Riverside Convention Center, downtown. The convention is truly a literary nirvana: from poetry, play, and fiction readings, to panels, roundtables, workshops, and more – all centering on the theme of “Creative Writing and Editing” – attendees will have much to explore, learn, and treasure through the experience. BOA Editions will play a large part...

Watch Weekly Poem: From 'Movements Forward, Movements Away' on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. PBS NewsHour is featuring Peter Conners, publisher at BOA Editions, as their Poet of the Week due to his imaginative prose in "Movements Forward, Movements Away." The poem captures the reader from the beginning till end. Watch the video above to hear Peter's reading or click here to visit PBS to read the excerpt as well. GO PETER!!!!!