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This week, Michael Waters will demonstrate the versatility and universality of poetry, giving poetry readings in Bucharest, Romania (July 24) and Brasov, Romania (July 27). Waters, who has published ten collections of poetry, including five from BOA, has a deep connection to Romania, where many of his poems are set. In a recent article in The Prague Post (The Czech Republic's English-language newspaper), Stephan Delbos notes the qualities that make Water's art so appealing and innovative: "[Waters]..has been quietly writing some of the best poetry in the United States for the past three decades... Waters' work has moved steadily toward...

[caption id="attachment_1868" align="alignleft" width="165" caption="True Faith, released in April 2012"][/caption] In a recent review in Bangor Daily News, Dana Wilde described Ira Sadoff's new collection, True Faith, as a worthy contribution to the tradition of confessional literature that has emerged and flourished since the 1960s. True Faith, Wilde writes, is “an entry in that persistent flow” of autobiographical introspective literature by the likes of such artists as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and John Ashbery. According to Wilde, the complexity of Sadoff's work lies in the way the poems "surf idiosyncratically in and out of the waves...

That's right! Advance-copies of Craig Morgan Teicher's To Keep Love Blurry are currently on sale from the BOA Bookstore! The book will be officially released in September, so don't miss this chance to get an amazing book into your hands before anyone else! (And don't forget to check out all our other forthcoming, equally exciting Fall books.) [caption id="attachment_1864" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Pick up an advance copy today!"][/caption] "Inspired by Robert Lowell’s Life Studies, Craig Morgan Teicher’s To Keep Love Blurry is an exploration of the charged and troubled spaces between intimately connected people: husbands and wives, parents and children, writers and...

Polish writer Jacek Gutorow's most recent collection, The Folding Star and Other Poems (BOA, 2012) has been saluted by Hey, Small Press! as one of the top reads on this month's book list. A poet, translator, and literary critic, Gutorow has published five books of poems and five collections of critical essays, and has received some of the most significant literary awards in Poland. According to Hey, Small Press!, Gutorow's The Folding Star and Other Poems is "meditative and beautiful, his diction fragile and clear- thanks in no small part to the wonderful work of translator Piotr Florczyk." Gutorow's work...

Over the course of a year, acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher wrote poems back and forth to one another on an almost daily basis. From this communication emerged the collection Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA, 2011). The title poem of the collection is this week's featured poem by the Oxford Brookes University Poetry Center. The poem is described by the OBU Poetry Center as a  "user-friendly self-help manual for the end of time. " It explores not only the voices of the two artists, but a subtle third 'voice' that emerges along their journey. John...