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In addition to the four BOA authors, who were recipients of 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, we are thrilled to announce that translator Brian Henry was awarded an NEA fellowship to support his translation of Slovenian writer Aleš Šteger's collection of lyric essays Berlin.  You can read more about Henry's prestigious grant here.  The NEA fellowship will help Henry to continue his dedication to exposing English readers to the work of one of Slovenia's most promising young writers, an undertaking first begun with Henry's translation of Šteger's The Book Things, which was published just last fall by BOA...

For the week of January 24, 2011, Publishers Weekly included two forthcoming poetry volumes by veteran Boa Editions authors! Christopher Kennedy's Ennui Prophet and the collaborative poems of John Gallaher and G.C.Waldrep, collected in Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, were both among this week's poetry selections. Your Father on the Train of Ghosts was also included in Publishers Weekly Top 10: Poetry! Both books are very interesting explorations of the poetic form that Boa Editions is excited to include in its new titles for Spring 2011, and we are thrilled to see them getting early press. Christopher Kennedy's perspective...

The Readers Review recently posted an interview with BOA Author Anne Germanacos in which Germanacos discusses her new book In the Time of the Girls.  Interviewer Mary Ellen Hannibal, who calls the book "a work you must give yourself to in order to sit with at all," asks Germanacos about her non-linear style and her themes that cross boundaries. When questioned about the references the work makes to "drastic painful experiences that are particularly female," Germanacos responds, "None of my characters have dodged pain.  To have done so would mean that they'd dodged life, and what kind of story would that be?!"    Read the full interview here The Readers Review...

Publishers Weekly recently announced its list of the best new titles being published this spring.  Out of the 6,000 titles submitted, ten were chosen for each genre.  In what is called, "a strong season for poetry," G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher's new collaboration Your Father on the Train of Ghosts found its way into the top-ten list of spring poetry. Reviewer Craig Morgan Teicher, who refers to Waldrep and Gallaher as "two rising poetic stars," writes, "The result of the collaboration sounds like neither of their poetic voices; rather, it's a weird third voice you'll want to get to know."  Read Publishers Weekly's full list here...

Calling Cradle Book "among the year's most innovative work," Danniel Schoonebeek reviews Craig Morgan Teicher's latest book of poems as both imaginative and unsettling.  Schoonebeek compares Teicher to several other American poets who are "breaking the boundaries of contemporary form to establish new aesthetic frontiers."  He writes that while Cradle Book stems from traditional folklore, Teicher creates his own new form.  "Teicher's is a speaker, who like a god, likes to dictate the terms of his universe, of his story, by speaking them into existence.  In fact, Teicher's speaker is not a speaker at all - he is a storyteller."   Read the full review here The Rumpus.net