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Tomorrow night at 7pm, the Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore, MD) will honor Lucille Clifton with a Pre-Publication Celebration for The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010. The event will include an exhibition of photos of Lucille Clifton which will remain on display until September 29.  Tomorrow’s dedication will feature a line-up of outstanding poets and writers remembering Clifton and her life’s work, including Nikki Giovanni and Afaa Michael Weaver. Also presiding as emcee will be Michael S. Glaser, co-editor of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 and former Maryland Poet Laureate. Honoring the Life and Poetic Legacy of...

Hungry for some quality poetic sustenance? Anywhere near the West coast this Saturday? If you've answered "Yes!" to either or both of these questions, then you won't want to miss Ryan Teitman's reading of his new collection Litany for the City, going on this Saturday night (June 16), 7 pm at the Elliot Bay Book Company in Seattle! This is a FREE event and is open to the public! BOA poet, former journalist, and Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford, Teitman was chosen by Jane Hirshfield, from more than 600 applicants, as the 2010 winner of the annual A....

Anne Germanacos, author of In the Time of Girls, is lighting up the blogosphere with her recent interview, featured on ph.d. in creative writing! The interview, in which Germanacos explores her own beginnings, maturation, and inspirations as a writer, received more than 10,000 hits soon after it was posted, and has more than one hundred commentators who empathize with Germanacos' intimate relationship with writing. The author and teacher reflects that writing offers "another body (in words) that could hold the many shifting parts, adding new ones when they [occur]." She says of past writing experiences: " It allowed me to...

Out of more than 200 published and thriving writers in the city of Chicago, Newcity Lit's "Lit 50" has been chosen, and on the list is BOA's own Adam McOmber! McOmber's first book, short fiction collection This New and Poisonous Air, was published by BOA just last year, in June 2011. Stories from it have already received nominations for 2012 Pushcart Prizes and Best American Fantasy. It's clear: this Chicago wordsmith is getting noticed! Newcity Lit, an extension of Chicago's weekly Newcity magazine, is devoted to "Chicago's legendary culture of writing," as well as the "growing literary abundance" of the...

Want to know what publishers like BOA are looking for in a manuscript? Dying to know more about your favorite independent press? In a fascinating (and humorous) interview, BOA's publisher Peter Conners discusses with Aspen Matis of the Brooklyn Rail about just what makes BOA, BOA. In addition to questions of funding, public support of the arts and humanities, and surviving in a less-than-thriving economy, the two discuss BOA's further promotion of little-known, necessary manuscripts through the release of e-books, and what "progress" in the digital landscape means for the fate of poetry and text. The balance between accessibility and...