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Congrats to two BOA authors
We want to extend a special congrats to BOA author Aracelis Girmay and translator Deniz Perin! Aracelis' forthcoming collection, Kingdom Animalia, has been chosen as the Rumpus Poetry Book Club Selection for August. The club makes copies of the book available one month prior to its publication date and also features interviews with selected authors. It's a wonderful way to spread the word about outstanding new poetry books and an auspicious start for Kingdom Animalia. Find out more about the Rumpus Poetry Book Club here: http://therumpus.net/the-rumpus-poetry-book-club/. Kingdom Animalia is being published in September as winner of BOA's 2011 Isabella Gardner Award....
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13 days left to submit for the BOA Short Fiction Prize
Dear Short Fiction Writers, Time to print those pages and peel those stamps! There's only 13 days left to mail in your submssion for the 1st BOA Short Fiction Prize. The winner receives publication by BOA Editions in the American Reader Series in Spring 2013 and a $500 Honorarium. All submissions will be read by BOA Publisher Peter Conners who will also make the final selection. Here are the complete guidelines: [BOA Short Fiction Prize] We hope to read your submission soon! Sincerely, BOA
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Buffalo News Notes "The Book of Things" Best Translated Book Award
Head West out of Rochester on Interstate 90 and within an hour you'll hit Buffalo. Or you can just click on the below link and get a taste of literary Buffalo through the eyes of R.D. Pohl of the Buffalo News. This week, R.D. celebrates the Best Translated Book of the Year Award for The Book of Things by Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger, translated by noted poet and translator Brian Henry: "BOA Editions, Ltd., the Rochester, New York based small press with an outsized literary reputation, added another honor to its collection last month when University of Richmond based poet Brian Henry's English-language translation of Slovenian...
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"Considerations of Gender" Analyzed in Nin Andrews' Poetry
Karen Schubert recently published an essay to Gently Read Literature's online blog of essays and criticism of poetry and literary fiction on Nin Andrews' books of poetry. The essay is entitled " 'Everything Stuck to Her Skin': Considerations of Gender in the Poetry of Nin Andrews" and it focuses on and highlights Andrews' attention to female place in culture. "Andrews writes as an insider;" Schubert says, "that is, she writes through the female body, through the persona of a girl evaluating cultural messages, and through a woman in relationship as daughter, mother, lover, wife." Schubert explores the "broader female themes"...
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Publishers Weekly Profiles BOA Editions
Publishers Weekly has published a wonderful profile of BOA Editions in honor of our 35th anniversary. It's truly a tribute to all the authors, staff, board and supporters who have kept BOA Editions a leading indie press for all these years. Here's an excerpt from the article: "For 35 years, the nonprofit poetry publisher BOA Editions has been a national force, releasing work from heavyweights like Li-Young Lee, Lucille Clifton, and Michael Waters, as well as up-and-comers like Keetje Kuipers and Janice N. Harrington. When poet/editor/translator A. Poulin Jr. founded BOA Editions in 1976, the publishing landscape had little room for...
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