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BOA submits all books and volumes of poetry to dozens of different literary contests throughout the year, ranging from awards for individual poems to the Pulitzer Prize. One of these is the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)'s annual National Translation Award. Besides considerable prestige the award carries a $5000 prize with it. This year we submitted two of 2010's strongest works, Book of Things: Poems by Aleš Steger, which has previously won a 2011 Best Translated Book Award, and Book of the Edge: Poems by Ece Temelkuran. BOA is proud to announce that both Book of Things and Book of...

Peter Makuck, the author of Long Lens: New and Selected Poems, has won the Brockman-Campbell Book Award for 2011. The award is given out by the North Carolina Poetry Society for a book-length volume of poetry published in the previous year written by a native or resident North Carolinian.  Makuck joins 2010 winner Dannye Romine Powell, author of A Necklace of Bees. Congratulations to Peter! Long Lens: New and Selected Poems is available for purchase here.

There's a big party in the works to celebrate BOA author Adam McOmber and his first collection of short stories! The Book Cellar is hosting a launch party for Adam McOmber's Pushcart-nominated short story collection, This New & Poisonous Air, in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. June 16, 2011 -- starting at 7 PM. The launch party will be at: The Book Cellar 4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60625 This New & Poisonous Air is availible for pre-order now!

Writer Joseph Salvatore was spotted recently at a reading at Unnameable Books, in the heart of Prospect Heights in Brooklyn.  Accompanying such authors as Catherine Lacey, Donald Breckenridge, Robert Lopez and Holly Tavel, the exuberantly energetic Salvatore read a short excerpt from his To Assume a Pleasing Shape, which will be available in November. Joseph Salvatore and friend Rachel Heiman before the event Wearing a Newbury Comics t-shirt and with a shaved head, Salvatore "seemed like a guy who might coach you to make your first ollie in a skatepark." The stream-of-consciousness short story "Late Thaw" seemed to hit a...

Although we posted before about BOA's first ever Pop-Up Poetry Reading at Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, back in April, we thought we'd share these beautiful pictures of the event. Bernadette Catalana, BOA Board Chair Jonathan Everitt, BOA Board member Jonathan reading, with Jack in the background Jack Langerak, BOA Board Member Bernadette talking with Jack Cindy Rogers, BOA Board Member All photographs courtesy of Will Ingalls. Future BOA Editions Pop-Up Poetry Events are in the works--check back here to find out more!