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[caption id="attachment_1380" align="aligncenter" width="465" caption="35th Anniversary Summer Celebration Sale"][/caption] In celebration of 35 years, BOA is holding a 35th Anniversary Summer Celebration Summer Sale.  All BOA titles are discounted 10% now until August 31st.  It is one way for us to thank our readers and offer some quality summer reading! For a link to the BOA Editions bookstore, follow the link here.

Aleš Šteger's poem "Egg," from his collection of translated poetry The Book of Things, was chosen to feature as today's Poem of the Day by the American Academy of Poets. Translated by Brian Henry, Šteger's poetry often focuses on simple, everyday objects, but in his poetry these normal items become strange, new, and utterly other. Today's "Egg" is written in this tradition, juxtaposing the tranquility of breakfast with the threatening images of the eye, the gaze, and questions no one wants to answer before coffee. Egg When you kill it at the edge of the pan, you don't notice That...

Cecilia Woloch's poem "My Mother's Pillow," from her book Late, was recently selected as the weekly poem in American Life in Poetry, a "project for newspapers" run by 2004-2006 US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. "I don't often mention literary forms," Kooser writes in his brief introduction to Woloch's work, "but of this lovely poem... I want to suggest that the form, a villanelle, which uses a pattern of repetition, adds to the enchantment I feel in reading it. it has a kind of layering, like memory itself." Read "My Mother's Pillow" on American Life in Poetry here. Like what you...

Craig Morgan Teicher's Cradle Book, which was published in 2010 as part of BOA's American Readers Series, has recently been selected as an Editor's Favorites pick for Summer 2011 by Cerise Press. In Teicher's debut collection of short stories, "[m]ortality permeates... With piercing brevity, he features villagers and personified animals who endure an austere existence... Teicher imbues portraits of melancholy with truth-telling that elucidate the brutal yet wondrous mysteries between 'silence and sound,'" writes Editor Karen Rigby. You can purchase Cradle Book here. Spot Cradle Book at Cerise Press here.

Deborah Brown, author of recent BOA release Walking the Dog's Shadow, for which she won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, was selected today by the Academy of American Poets to have her poem "Reprise" showcased on their website as the Poem of the Day. "Reprise," which is found in Walking the Dog's Shadow, speaks of love and fame and a history of ourselves as a people in the little things in which we find ourselves. Congrats to Deborah Brown, and points to the AAP for exceptional taste. Reprise by Deborah Brown Better than a lover's heart, the immortality of...