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BOA Editions is proud to welcome Albert Abonado to the staff! Al spent the last few months working for BOA as the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize Coordinator and volunteering his time helping at readings and events. He has proven himself to be a wonderful team player and a passionate advocate for poetry and literature. As of February 1st, Al will officially join the BOA staff as Associate Director of Marketing and Production. His duties will include assisting in all areas of marketing and promotion as well as guiding books through the various stages of production, warehousing, release, and reprinting.   Al received his B.A in Sociology from SUNY Geneseo. He also holds an...

Great news! Craig Morgan Teicher's Cradle Book was named by the prestigious Story Prize as a notable book of 2010. Check out the list of semi-finalists for the award over at the Story Prize Blog. This praise adds to the growing list of recognition for Teicher's debut collection of short stories, which was - oddly enough - also named by The New Yorker as a top poetry collection of the year due to Dan Chiasson's insistence on "counting [Teicher's collection] as ‘prose poems’ mainly to get them on this list.” Make sure to pick up your copy of Teicher's highly...

In an interview with 3AM Magazine,  Ales Steger, called "simply one of the most enjoyable poets to read in Europe right now," answers questions about his poetic style, his influences, and his titles.  Steger has published 4 books of poetry in the past 15 years, his most recent being The Book of Things. When asked about his style, which is called distinct and exact, Steger responds, "There are different kinds of exactness and different goals that could be acheived through attempts at precision.  Although rational, my poetry is not preoccupied with highlighting exact logical procedures.  Rather, it aims at throwing light at...

On Beloit Poetry Journal Poet's Forum, BOA Author Janice Harrington explains the inspiration behind her piece "Why, Oh Why, the Doily?"  She walks us from her early drafts in 2004 to the "springboard" Selden Rodman provided in Horace Pippen:  A Negro Painter in America. "I knew I wanted a poem that enacted obsession, wanted to crochet a poem (links, chains, intertwining, dropped stitches) that moved from the specifics of family history and memory toward more abstract representations." She then goes on to give an analysis of each section of her work, starting with section one, which "begins with a memory:  a woman crocheting beside the front window of her living room. ...

Each year, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (a.k.a. AWP) holds a huge conference in a different city. This year the AWP Conference takes place in Washington, D.C. from Feb 2-5. As usual, BOA will be there selling books, meeting people, and soaking up the creative energy generated by having thousands of writers and publishers in the same place. If you're attending AWP, please visit the BOA tables: B31 and B32 Many of our authors will be on discussion panels and involved with readings and talks about journals, creative writing programs, etc. Here are a few BOA-specific highlights to mark...