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There's too much news to focus on just one thing, so here's a tasty BOA news sampler to fill your tummy until Monday... Keetje Kuipers' Beautiful in the Mouth made the Poetry Foundation's Contemporary Poetry Best Sellers List for the week of Sept. 5-12! Along with making the list, Harriet (the blog of the Poetry Foundation) had this to say about it: "Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers makes its first appearance on the contemporary best seller list this week at number 7. That is a remarkable debut for a first book by a young poet—up there in the top ten...

[caption id="attachment_1036" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Matthew Shenoda. BOA Poet. "][/caption] New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg concluded his 9/11 address with some lines of poetry that may sound familiar. That's because they were quoted from the 2009 BOA title, Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone by Matthew Shenoda! The quotes are from Matthew's poem "Donkey Carts and Desolation": Ingenuity is the notion of building/ On a foundation made from loss You can watch the speech here (the quote takes place at 9 minutes 15 seconds into the video): http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7662057 We applaud Mayor Bloomberg's choice in using poetry to communicate his challenging message and congratulate Matthew Shenoda...

In honor of the 10th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, we are offering a 15% discount on all past contest winning books! For all you potential future Poulin contest winners, this is your chance to get familiar with work by your peers. For poetry lovers in general, this is  great chance to read some of most dynamic poetry debuts of the past 10 years. Check out the books here [Poulin Contest Winners]  Happy reading... and Good Luck!

[caption id="attachment_1032" align="alignleft" width="205" caption="Nikola Madzirov. BOA poet."][/caption] Who is Nikola Madzirov? In short, he's one of the most powerful young voices in European poetry - and he's coming to America. At the tender poetic age of 37, Madzirov's poetry has been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In March 2011, BOA Editions will publish his first full-length U.S. collection, Remants of Another Age, which will include an Introduction by Carolyn Forche. The list of awards that Nikola has garnered could stretch from Macedonia to the U.S. Most recently, he has been selected as the featured poet for Velestovo...

[caption id="attachment_1028" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Peter Conners"][/caption] Peter Conners has been promoted to Publisher of BOA Editions, Ltd.  His previous title was Editor/Marketing Director. Conners has worked at BOA Editions since 2003. He began his career as Marketing Director and was then promoted to Associate Editor before being named Editor in 2008. He has continued to direct BOA’s marketing throughout his seven years at the non-profit publishing house. Board Chair Bernadette Catalana says, “The Board of Directors voted unanimously to promote Peter to the Publisher position. He has exhibited outstanding leadership skills throughout his career at BOA and we place our confidence...