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Attention poetry translators: In just two shorts weeks, BOA will begin accepting submissions for its Lannan Translations Series, from May 1 - June 15. The Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is funding two new collections of contemporary international poetry published by BOA Editions in 2013. These funds support production costs and author and translator royalties. BOA Editions is grateful to the Lannan Foundation for its support of poetry and the art of translation. Interested in submitting? Click here to see the guidelines and our previously published translation titles. See also our newest translation Light and Heavy Things (officially on...

Library Journal is calling Hugh Martin's debut The Stick Soldiers "a collection about loyalty, country, and his return home to Ohio after completing an 11-month deployment in the Middle East." "War is unforgettable," continues the LJ review, "and Martin comes out of the desert a soldier’s poet." Pre-order your own copy of Martin's The Stick Soldiers, today! Happy National Poetry Month! Through the end of April, purchase a book of poetry and we’ll "gift" a free book of poetry to the recipient of your choice! Click here for more details.

The Era of Not Quite is "brilliant," according to Lev Grossman, New York Times best-selling author (The Magicians; The Magician King) and book critic for TIME magazine. The mention of Douglas Watson's new debut fiction collection comes from a recent Barnes & Noble interview with Grossman and Elliot Holt, both judges for this year's ninth annual Tournament of Books, presented by Nook and Barnes & Noble. In the interview led by novelist and Tournament of Books co-founder Rosecrans Baldwin, Grossman and Holt discuss the state of fiction today, while also commenting on literary criticism and little-known publishers, titles, and authors which...

In a recent Devil's Lake interview with Hugh Martin, the poet shares some new and intriguing insights on writing poetry and essays, dealing with ethically and politically-charged subjects, and his new book The Stick Soldiers (BOA, 2013). In the Q&A led by Jacques J. Rancourt, Devil’s Lake gets Martin's inside perspectives on truth, navigating fact and fiction, the tradition of war poetry, writing humor, and his obligation to maintain humanity in his poetic voice. As with all poetry, the lines between fact and fiction are somewhat blurred in The Stick Soldiers. "...In the military," says Martin, "there is an unwritten...

The Rumpus review is calling Bruce Beasley a "capacious mind... one of contemporary poetry’s most cerebral and searching voices..." for his newest collection Theophobia. Reviewer Julie Marie Wade likens Beasley to Harryette Mullen, Brenda Hillman, and Jorie Graham, for his work that is both "challenging" and "provocative." The review notes that Beasley's work cannot be "merely read"; it requires great and "real" work of "inquiry and contemplation." "...There is a tidal force at work in these poems," says Wade. "They rush toward the reader with frenetic intensity, then slowly recede, leaving us drenched in language that is working at its highest...