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In their Feb 21st issue, Publishers Weekly gives early attention to two forthcoming spring 2011 BOA poetry titles: Ennui Prophet, poems by Christopher Kennedy (published June 2011) “Hip and inviting, Kennedy’s short prose poems rarely fail to entertain: ‘I’ll buy you a reason to live if you promise to share,’ one says, while another visits the ‘Museum of Wrong Turns,’ finding ‘something for everyone: cowboy boots worn by former presidents,’ for example…Kennedy runs the graduate program in creative writing at Syracuse: this third book of prose poems (his fourth overall) shows his clear mastery of several prose-poem forms, with lyricism, jokiness,...

Poet Joe Weil shares with readers of the Best American Poetry blog his early personal experiences with poet Sean Thomas Dougherty, author of the recently released Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line. Of Sean, he writes “I knew by his references, by his metaphors, and sound that he had read a great deal of poetry, that he had a far roaming yet accurate ear, and that these poems I was hearing out loud would deepen rather than disappear when I brought the book back with me to the mold making plant and read them at lunch break.”  Read more...

To celebrate this past Valentine’s Day, the editors and writers of Slate were asked to discuss their favorite love poems. Senior Editor Michael Agger selected the poem “Three Rivers” by Alpay Ulku from his book Meteorology; a poem that Michael says captured his attention from the first line.  You can read more of Michael Agger’s comments on the poem here:  http://www.slate.com/id/2284679/pagenum/all/#p2

Cradle Book is "worth your time" according to a review by Kyle Minor from HTML Giant.  Minor writes that Craig Morgan Teicher's newest collection comes from a childhood place that is often not explored in literature today.  His "old-made-new" form brings us back to the style we loved as children, introducing us to characters as colorful as a "crow who was not always a crow."   Quoting lines from various pieces, Minor explains, "The diction is low to the ground, but the tone implies that bigness will be the subject, and the subject will be reached by looking very closely at smallness." Read the full review here HTML Giant       

For the week of January 24, 2011, Publishers Weekly included two forthcoming poetry volumes by veteran Boa Editions authors! Christopher Kennedy's Ennui Prophet and the collaborative poems of John Gallaher and G.C.Waldrep, collected in Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, were both among this week's poetry selections. Your Father on the Train of Ghosts was also included in Publishers Weekly Top 10: Poetry! Both books are very interesting explorations of the poetic form that Boa Editions is excited to include in its new titles for Spring 2011, and we are thrilled to see them getting early press. Christopher Kennedy's perspective...