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In case you haven't had your daily injection of verse, the Poetry Foundation recommends W.D. Snodgrass' poem "April Inventory" as the Poem of the Day for Monday, April 23! You can read the poem at the Poetry Foundation website, along with other Snodgrass poems. You can find "April Inventory" in Not For Specialists: New and Selected Poems, which includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Heart's Needle, in addition to selections from The Fuhrer Bunker, Snodgrass' collection of dramatic monologues spoken by the German High Command at the end of World War II.

Selected by editor Ellen Datlow, this year's honorable mention for the Best Horror of the Year anthology includes The New & Poisonous Air by Adam McOmber. Published by Night Shade Books, the Best of Horror of the Year celebrates a year of writing that keeps us up at night, whether turning the pages or turning in our beds. With great pleasure, we congratulate Adam McOmber on his recognition as a storyteller who drives us to sleep with the light on, that there might be reason not to look under the bed. To see the complete honorable mentions list, click here....

Hey, Small Press! is devoted to encouraging public libraries to stock their shelves with books from independent publishers around the country. As noted on their website, their method is three-fold. "One: we select and review ten new or upcoming titles per month. Two: we send our list to public librarians and encourage them to order the titles. Three: we make available all our reviews to the public." We are thrilled to see that Hey, Small Press! has chosen Ryan Teitman's debut Litany for the City for inclusion in their April Book List. Click here to read the review and to...

[caption id="attachment_369" align="alignleft" width="150" caption=""][/caption] We are so excited to share that Naomi Shihab Nye was featured on PBS NewsHour's occasional series on poets and poetry yesterday,  speaking on teaching, storytelling, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and her latest collection Transfer, which BOA published last fall. You can watch the feature here. Nye travels all around the country giving readings and lessons to young poets, readers, and even audiences without any particular interest in the form. Check out the extended interview here to hear about a provocative session with a ladies' luncheon group that demonstrates Nye's ability to turn our attentions to...

"McOmber's stories are tinged with the bizarre," says Jessica Brockmole. In the HNR Issue BOA's publicaton, This New and Poisononous Air by Adam McOmber, is reviewed by Brockmole. She commends the multilayered charcters within the collection's ten stories. McOmber has been linked to the grim and dark writtings of Poe and Dinesen. Although the comparisions have been made, the review emphasizes that the stories themselves are not dark, "beneath each runs a subtext that darkness resides in us all." The review can be read here. Adam McOmber is the author of This New and Poisonous Air, his debut collection of short stories. The Assistant Director of Creative Nonfiction at Columbia College...