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Geffrey Davis' Revising the Storm (BOA, 2014) is a nominee for the 2015 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD for Poetry, from the Hurston/Wright Foundation. “The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards annually honor published works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Black writers published in the previous year. Recognized as a singular award from the Black writing community to its peers, the Legacy Awards each year recognizes members of the national and international Black writing community.” The winners of the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry will be announced on October 23, 2015, in Washington, D.C. “By honoring these authors, [the foundation...

This National Poetry Month, BookPage is celebrating by "highlighting some of the best new collections," including Nickole Brown's Fanny Says. Brown was asked to write a piece for the magazine about the importance of reading poetry, and her top five reasons are worth sharing far and wide. "In her second collection of poetry, Fanny Says, Nickole Brown offers a probing lyrical biography of her maternal grandmother while also considering the power of memory and Southern society. In this guest blog post, she lists the reasons you should be reading poetry—during poetry month and every other month in between." Here's a taste...

April is National Poetry Month! BOA Editions is celebrating this year's National Poetry Month with Barnes & Noble. On April 18, 2015, a percentage of all Barnes & Noble purchases will help support BOA Editions! Simply present THIS VOUCHER upon checkout at any Barnes & Noble store that day. Everything in the stores -- from your cafe beverage to the books on your spring/summer reading list -- is included! Help support BOA from your own local store, no matter where you live! (Note: If you visit the Pittsford, NY, location, simply mention that you are supporting BOA at checkout --...

Erika Meitner's poetry collection Copia has been in the recent spotlight! According to a Scout Poetry review of the collection, "Erika Meitner creates a tenuous balance, simultaneously reaching into the unknowable future and the immutable past. The reader feels this tense equilibrium immediately as the opening poems address bygone and potential lovers while acknowledging the speaker’s immediate and contented suburban domestic life. . . . Copia, as its title suggests, provides abundance. Rather than filter and parse, it holds nothing in reserve and asks for an equal measure of openness from its reader, inviting participation and, perhaps, action." In an interview...

John Gallaher's In a Landscape is featured in Common Good Book's new electronic newsletter! According to CGB, Gallaher's new book "is more than aware of its artifice, and thus, its voice. Like Whitman, Gallaher celebrates his vast incomprehension of the material world, no matter how big or how small, from Bob the Builder to John Cage, even as he ambulates to map the mind's terrain, unsure if the two remain as visibly distinct as traffic lights or stars in space. . . . Each line like a rake here is unruly in its combing of a private logic and errant trajectory, as...