BOA Blog

In a recent review from Library Journal, Bruce Beasley's Theophobia is called "an investigation into the physical world and what lies beyond." Reviewer Chris Pusateri immediately picks up on the essence of Beasley's new work by identifying what the poet already knows and participates in so boldly: the truth of humanity's ongoing search for sense and meaning of the world and humanity's role within it. According to the review, humans have practiced "philosophy, science, politics, religion, and poetry in the hopes of explaining the baffling aspects of existence." This new book by Beasley addresses the same questions we have asked...

Jeanne Beaumont's fans will be delighted to know that she is the Featured Reader for the Guilford Poets Guild's Second Thursday Poetry Series event, TONIGHT at 7 p.m. Beaumont is the author of Burning of the Three Fires and Curious Conduct, among others, and her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines including Columbia Poetry Review, Good Poems for Hard Times, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New Letters, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2007, When She Named Fire: Contemporary Poetry by American Women, World Literature Today. She won the 2009 Dana Award...

PBS Newshour ran a feature of BOA poet Hugh Martin this week, for his recent win of The Iowa Review's first-ever Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award. Already making big waves in the literary world since winning the 11th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Martin won the inaugural award out of an entry pool of 265. The prize is only open to active duty military personnel and veterans and was judged this year by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler; the prize includes a $1,000 award and publication in the journal. Having spent 11 months in Iraq, Martin's poems capture "his war...

BOA poet Ira Sadoff is finishing up his week's bout of poetry readings tonight at 7 p.m. during the opening of the University of Dayton's LitFest 2013. A busy poet, Sadoff also had a reading just last night at the University of Indiana at Bloomington. The University of Dayton's annual LitFest event is a time when writers, poets, and musicians from around the globe come to the university's campus to participate in workshops, live readings, lectures, book signings, coffee-house style musical performances, and an "always-popular" poetry slam. Sadoff will open the annual event with a poetry reading of his latest...

Jerry Thompson, Jeffrey Leong, and Josette King pose with their 'Collected Clifton's! More fans are posing with their brand new copies of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010, and you can find them on Lucille Clifton's Facebook fan page! Jerry Thompson, Event Coordinator for Book Inc. in Alameda and longtime friend of Ms. Clifton, is the host of the page, and is continuously posting pictures of booksellers, customers, and fans with the beautiful book. Share YOUR photo on the fan page, on our Facebook page, or on our Twitter page! Booksellers and Clifton fans nationwide are getting more and...