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BOA is based in Rochester, NY, but our authors and translators live all over the world. So it's always a treat for us to have one of them in town. Tomorrow (8/6) translator Judith Kerman will be in Rochester in support of her new translation, Praises & Offenses: Three Women from the Dominican Republic (BOA, 2009). The event will be held at Greenwood Books, 123East Avenue, Rochester, NY. The reading begins at 7:30pm and is free and open to the public.  Praises & Offenses presents the work of three powerful Dominican poets: Aida Cartagena Portalatín, Angela Hernández Núñez, and Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo. Judith Kerman began this translation...

[caption id="attachment_975" align="aligncenter" width="199" caption="Jane Hirshfield. Final Judge for the 10th A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize."][/caption] The 10th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is now open! This year's distinguished final judge is Jane Hirshfield. The winner will receive a $1,500 Honorarium, paid in March 2011, and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in March, 2012, in The A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. Other poets who launched their first books through the New Poets of America Series include Li-Young Lee, Dorianne Laux, Kim Addonizio, Janice N. Harrington, and, most recently, Dan Albergotti, Jennifer Kronovet, and Keetje Kuipers. Click here...

Yes, we're all excited about Roger Waters' upcoming "The Wall" tour... but this isn't about that (unless you want to give us free tickets, in which case... we'll talk). No, this is even better. Sort of. Introducing the BOA production wall!   You can keep your flat screens, your LCDs, your interconnected gigabyte networked interoffice communication satellite linkups... Give us a white wall, some dry-erase paint, a handful of colorful markers, and watch us go! Suddenly the little BOA office is synched up and running into the 2010-2012 production seasons. With this wall, we can monitor a book as it goes through the process (usually around 2...

[caption id="attachment_960" align="alignleft" width="295" caption="Aracelis Girmay. BOA Poet. Winner of the Isabella Gardner Award. "][/caption] We are thrilled to announce that Aracelis Girmay has been awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for her new collection, Kingdom Animalia. Her book will be published by BOA Editions in fall 2011. This award is given biennially to a poet with a new book of exceptional merit. Manuscripts are solicited and there is no formal submission process for this award. Poet, actress, and associate editor of Poetry magazine, Isabella Gardner (1915-1981) published five celebrated collections of poetry and was the first recipient of the...

[caption id="attachment_957" align="alignleft" width="227" caption="Anne Germanacos. BOA fiction author."][/caption] In April 2007, BOA started publishing literary fiction through our American Reader Series. Our goal was to seek out and publish fiction that it is as singular and powerful as our poetry. Fiction written by authors more concerned with the artfulness of their writing than the twists and turns of plot . Fiction that is not only compelling to read, but also artistically excellent. Although we didn't consciously decide to focus on authors who hadn't previously published story collections, it makes sense that they are the lifeblood of the series. While we have no data to support this hypothesis, it seems that...