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When you're "in the trenches" (as they say), working on producing and selling books, it's always great to have a real flesh-and-blood author visit the office. After all, without their oustanding poems and stories, there's no reason for us to be here every day! It's especially a pleasure when the author is a really cool person. Such was the case with today's visit by Christopher Kennedy - a brilliant poet and all-around good guy. Chris' last BOA book, Encouragement for a Man Falling to his Death, was awarded the 2007 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. His next book, Ennui Prophet, is...

Everyone who's been involved with a not-for-profit knows that board members are a key part of keeping the organization vital, healthy, and moving forward. Here at BOA, we're fortunate to have an outstanding board that supports our mission in numerous ways. At this morning's board meeting we asked the group to pose for a photo that we could use on our new website (more about that soon!). But why wait? Here's BOA's board gathered together in front of the fireplace at Midtown Athletic Club where the meeting was held. [caption id="attachment_885" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="BOA Board (partial)"][/caption] From left to right:...

Our spring 2010 titles have officially been released and all of us at BOA are very excited! This season, we have collections from Peter Makuck, Keetje Kuipers, Wyn Cooper and Craig Morgan Teicher -- three books of poetry and one of short stories, respectively -- and wanted to share something of each with you. [caption id="attachment_846" align="aligncenter" width="167" caption="Peter Makuck's "Long Lens""][/caption] Long Lens: New and Selected Poems is the newest in a long list (no pun intended) of books by Peter Makuck. It represents forty years of Makuck's poetry, and also includes twenty-five new poems. In this collection, he...

You know what they say... "a picture is worth a thousand blah blah blah whatever..." Now for more BOA pics from AWP! Craig Morgan Teicher, David Mura and Matthew Shenoda gather for a picture at the BOA booth. The BOA staff had a great time dining with both poets and friends. Judith Kerman and Melissa Hall hanging out at the BOA booth Peter and Mel were very excited to see Fred Courtright at the conference! Thom goofing around with Wyn Cooper at the BOA booth.

It's always a treat for an author to return to their college campus and share their new work! On Monday, April 12, Keetje Kuipers got to take a "victory lap" around Swarthmore and the college paper, The Phoenix, captured the spirit of her visit. Regular readers to this blog know that Keetje is our guest blogger for April, so keep an eye out for her next entry very, very soon... [caption id="attachment_761" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers"][/caption] Poet and alumna Keetje Kuipers ’02 returned to Swarthmore on Monday to read from her first published volume of...