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Poetry is celebrated every month in The Washington Independent Review! BOA's publications True Faith by Ira Sadoff, The Folding Star by Jacek Gutorow, translated by Piotr Florczyk, and Litany for the City by Ryan Teitman are April Exemplars in The Washington Independent Review. Grace Cavalieri reviews each title and highlights the prose in each. Cavalieri, a poet and playwright, describes Teitman's cities as holograms of places, colors, people and possibilities. She says that Gutorow, "is a lyrical poet who ponders the edges of what cannot be known. And Sadoff's new book is an arsenal of wit and strong sensations." The...

Check out Mike Walker's review of Ira Sadoff's True Faith over at the Coal Hill Review. Walker sees Sadoff as a chronicler of American society, a guise through which he practices poetry and vice versa.  It is in this regard that Walker compares Sadoff's vocation as a writer to I.B. Singer, in that he has a "near-scientific ability to record the topography of both place and emotion, but also the discerning nature to make something more of it than a narrow historiography." Such topographies range  in physicality, describing the United States from Virginia to Texas, and of course depicting the...

Ece Temelkuran is a fighter. She has spent the bulk of her career chronicling, and combating, governmental rot in the name of the common people for various news syndicates around the world, and it is with this in mind that Andrew Scoggins from Poetry International approaches her collection of poems Book of the Edge in his review. Scoggins attributes Temelkuran's conciseness to her journalistic experiences, citing it among the collection's strengths. "Compelling," "empowering," and "inspiring" are among the many words Scoggins uses to describe this collection. Head over to Poetry International's blog to read the whole review.

Since 1976, the Pushcart Prize has recognized outstanding work from small presses, spanning across all literary genres, from fiction to poetry to the essay. The award is given yearly, and it is with great pleasure that we announce that Michael Waters and Deborah Brown have both been recognized with the Pushcart Prize this year. Michael Waters's poem "Beloved," from his collection Gospel Night, and Deborah Brown's poem "Walking the Dog's Shadow," from her collection of the same name, will appear in this year's Pushcart Prize anthology, edited by novelist Bill Henderson. The anthology will appear in stores in November. Once again,...

The Writer'sAlmanac features a daily dose of verse, birthday announcements (Today we celebrate William Shakespeare's 448th), and literary-driven news for your listening pleasure. Narrated by Garrison Keillor, the Writer's Almanac also has a trove of recitations of works by BOA authors including Kim Addonizio, Mark Irwin, Barton Sutter, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Pop over to the Writers' Almanac site to hear some really wonderful works. It won't melt the snow, but it'll feel like it does!