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G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher received praise for their collection of poetry, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts.  Boston Review notes that this poetry calls in a unique perspective of collective voice between the two authors.  The poetry is seamlessly assembled into poems with "real strength." Waldrep and Gallaher's poetry is a pleasing "example of contemporary work" that seeks to "express the exhaustion of excess."  Not one poem is wasted in contributing to the collection.  Each poem dives into the communion of speakers and souls as they share awareness and become a whole new creative voice together. Together, Waldrep and...

Cecilia Woloch's poem "My Mother's Pillow," from her book Late, was recently selected as the weekly poem in American Life in Poetry, a "project for newspapers" run by 2004-2006 US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. "I don't often mention literary forms," Kooser writes in his brief introduction to Woloch's work, "but of this lovely poem... I want to suggest that the form, a villanelle, which uses a pattern of repetition, adds to the enchantment I feel in reading it. it has a kind of layering, like memory itself." Read "My Mother's Pillow" on American Life in Poetry here. Like what you...

Craig Morgan Teicher's Cradle Book, which was published in 2010 as part of BOA's American Readers Series, has recently been selected as an Editor's Favorites pick for Summer 2011 by Cerise Press. In Teicher's debut collection of short stories, "[m]ortality permeates... With piercing brevity, he features villagers and personified animals who endure an austere existence... Teicher imbues portraits of melancholy with truth-telling that elucidate the brutal yet wondrous mysteries between 'silence and sound,'" writes Editor Karen Rigby. You can purchase Cradle Book here. Spot Cradle Book at Cerise Press here.

Rattle gave Nikola Madzirov's collection of poetry, Remnants of Another Age, an outstanding review.  Published by BOA Editions, this collection was described as "intriguing," "fresh," and "clever."  The review goes into great depth to praise the voice and nature of history in Madzirov's collection. According to Rattle, Madzirov uses a speaker that conveys much by presenting issues that are "shown to the reader rather than described."  The voice of the poems' speaker is unique and refreshing as it creates an air of privacy.  The reader becomes a witness as he or she is placed outside the "you" and "we"s of the poetry. ...

[caption id="attachment_1032" align="aligncenter" width="205" caption="Nikola Madzirov. BOA poet."][/caption] Nikola Madzirov's bilingual Macedonian-English collection of poetry,  Remnants of Another Age (published by BOA Editions), received a glowing review from World Literature Today.  The review comments on the beautiful integration of spiritual and physical, past and future, personal and universal.  Madzirov's poetry evokes elements of mythology which aids in unifying the variety of themes he addresses. Nikola Madzirov interlaces all aspects of reality into lyrical and moving work.  His poetry features both the history of the Balkan region as well as his own personal lived experiences and reflections.  Madzirov looks through historical and mythical perspectives to communicate the "migrations, exiles,...