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In a glowing new review, NewPages calls G.C. Waldrep's Testament "ambitious and athletic, ever-climbing toward a breakthrough." "We see right away what sort of virtuosity—one hundred and thirty pages of it—lies before us: the precision of image, the sonority of language, the diversity of tone and approach. And good god that lexicon." Reviewer Ryo Yamaguchi says: "...this is, to me, pure Waldrep, a distillate of his finest maneuvers, and in many ways the most ambitious of his meditational efforts. To that end, this is a rangy poem, shifting and cycling back on itself, plumbing and measuring and reassessing in a long...

BOA is pleased to announce that the Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has issued a generous dollar-for-dollar challenge grant in the amount of $40,000 to support BOA’s 40th anniversary Major Gifts Campaign and endowment fund. Founded on July 4, 1976, BOA will mark 40 years as a publisher of contemporary poetry and literary fiction in 2016. Over these 40 years, BOA has earned an esteemed reputation as one of the nation’s premier independent presses, publishing the works of such renowned, award-winning authors as Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, and Naomi Shihab Nye. In recent years, BOA authors have continued to garner numerous prestigious awards, including the 2013...

We are proud to announce that BOA author Nikola Madzirov (Remnants of Another Age, 2011) has won the prestigious DAAD Writer's Fellowship for 2016-2017! Selected for the award by an international nomination committee, Madzirov has been invited to Berlin for a 12-month stay in 2016 by the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the German Academic Exchange Service to Berlin, in order to develop or finish a new book, and to actively participate in the artistic and cultural life of Berlin throughout Germany and Europe. Dating back to 1963, previous winners of the fellowship award include W.H. Auden, Zbigniew Herbert, Margaret Atwood, Susan Sontag, Adam Zagajewski, Bei Dao, Taduesz Rózewicz, Tomaž Šalamun, Ingeborg Bachman, Inger Christensen, Carlos Fuentes, Witold...

We are pleased to announce that Zach Powers is the winner of the fifth annual BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize for his collection, Gravity Changes. The collection was selected from nearly 200 submissions by BOA Publisher Peter Conners. Powers will receive a $1,000 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. within the American Reader Series in spring 2017. Of the collection, Peter Conners says: “Zach Powers wields a unique talent for creating strange and surreal worlds that, somehow, illuminate true human emotion more realistically than the realest realist. His characters defy gravity, sprout siblings from their shoulders, shrink universes...

BOA is thrilled to announce that its event, the BOA Editions 40th Anniversary Celebration, has been accepted for AWP 2016 in Los Angeles! Of the 1,781 event proposals submitted this year, the most in the conference's history, and 493 more than they have ever received before, AWP accepted 523 events involving more than 2,000 panelists for 2016. At this event, join five BOA authors whose poetry spans the 40 year history of one of America's true independent literary treasures. Li-Young Lee, Aracelis Girmay, Jillian Weise, Nikola Madzirov, and Michael Waters will read from their BOA titles and share a few...