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For National Poetry Month, BOA is excited to be partnering with Rochester's local public radio station WXXI who will be airing a segment called Poetry Minutes for the week of April 10-16. The segment will feature BOA poems by Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, Cecilia Woloch, Michael Waters, Keetje Kuipers, and Christopher Kennedy! The readings will be broadcast at 6:59 p.m. on Classical 91.5, 90.3 and 91.5 HD, and at 7:29 p.m. on AM 1370 and FM 91.5-2, or you can also listen to them on the WXXI site here: [WXXI POETRY MINUTES]

Publishers Weekly recently gave This New & Poisonous Air a star review, calling Adam McOmber's style "sinuous" and "antiquated."  The reviewer states, "Writing with a sure hand and an impressive imagination, McOmber depicts that seamless scrim between the real and imagined." As a part of BOA's American Readers Series, This New and Poisonous Air is set to be released this summer. Read the full review along with others here [caption id="attachment_1017" align="alignnone" width="196" caption="This New & Poisonous Air. Stories by Adam McOmber."][/caption]

Your Father on the Train of Ghosts was recently reviewed by Joshua Diamond of the Sycamore Review.  Diamond says that John Gallaher and G.C. Waldrep are ahead of the curve in a year of American poetry he names, "The Year of the Ghost."  He comments on the collection's ability to "navigate" readers to a familiar place by referencing automated towns, parental figures, and even a Spencer Tracy film. Calling Your Father on the Train of Ghosts "not a typical collaboration," Diamond writes, "It is also not a G.C. Waldrep or a John Gallaher book; rather a hybrid speaker emerges wearing Waldrep's hat and Gallaher's sneakers." Read...

[caption id="attachment_998" align="alignleft" width="157" caption="BOA poet Ales Steger. Photo by Joze Suhadolnik."][/caption] It was recently announced that Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger's book, The Book of Things, is a finalist for the 2011 Best Translated Book Awards. Šteger's The Book of Things is his fourth book of poetry, and the first complete volume translated into English. The edition's translator, Brian Henry, asserts in his introduction that this "is the ideal introduction to his work for English readers." Since his first publication in 1995, Šteger's poems have been translated into a dozen languages, including German, Spanish, English, Czech, and Bulgarian, which makes...