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Students, faculty, and staff from the University of Maryland gathered October 14, to hear author Douglas Watson read from his recently published collection The Era of Not Quite (BOA, 2013), according to an article in the independent student newspaper The Diamondback. Watson discussed his lifelong love for reading, having started in childhood, and how that led to his writing career: "'I guess I was grateful without thinking about it, to those authors who wrote those books,' Watson said. 'By the time I started really writing at age 30, it was like coming home to my first love.'" Students noted their...

Check out this exclusive and captivating video, "Poetry with Sean Thomas Dougherty" from Central Michigan Life (Central Michigan University’s student-operated campus newspaper). Dougherty's "New and Selected" collection of poems, All You Ask For is Longing, will be released by BOA in May 2014. He is also the author of Broken Hallelujahs (2007) and Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (2010). [embed]<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/77019687" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/77019687">Poetry with Sean Thomas Dougherty</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/cmlifevideo">CMLifeVideo</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>[/embed]

Jim Daniels' new collection Birth Marks (BOA, 2013) has been in the media spotlight in recent weeks. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says the new book, "...seems to contain more instances of Black Sabbath, Iggy pop, Led Zeppelin and other figures not usually associated with serious poetry..." According to Daniels, these pop culture references "are connected to the omnipresence of technology." “'There's a reason why it's called Birth Marks,'" says Daniels in the review. “'That place (Detroit) is where I'm from, and it's marked me. And it will mark me forever because birthmarks don't go away. The place where you grew up, that...

Poet and book reviewer Lynn Domina delves into Bruce Beasley's Theophobia (BOA, 2012), calling it "both the sort of book I immediately gravitate to and the sort of book I ordinarily avoid ... Beasley's poems do demand an attentive reader; but they demand the sort of attention that is most pleasurable, a reader who is immersed in the questions, who is fully engaged with the language, who surrenders to the poems' guidance." Theophobia is Beasley's seventh collection, and the latest volume in his ongoing spiritual meditation, which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition...

BOA congratulates Publisher Peter Conners on his 10th anniversary with BOA Editions. Thank you, Peter, for your enduring passion and commitment to BOA's mission, for 10 dedicated years of bringing high quality literature into people's lives! Cheers to you!