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"Monster," by Polish poet Dariusz Sosnicki was published in the July 29 issue of The New Yorker. The poem--about a train carrying children away from their parents for a summer vacation, as it transforms into a ravenous monster--comes from BOA's forthcoming spring 2014 translation The World Shared, by Sosnicki and translated by Piotr Florczyk and Boris Dralyuk. MONSTER  The train, which I took back across the great plain, I tell you, it was a monster with a swollen belly. It had a lair in Pulawy, ravened in Warsaw; children greeted it and it swallowed them. Now they’re playing together— the...

Following a lyrical account of meditations gleaned from her experience producing wine, an art she compares to the craft of poetry, Katrina Roberts of the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) savors Refuge (BOA, 2013) by Adrie Kusserow. “Writing poetry, like growing grapes, requires a particular attentiveness and faith," says Roberts, "a strange perseverance in the face of dismissal or anonymity, a marriage to patience with no promise of fruitfulness.” Roberts writes for the LARB poetry column "Tasting Notes," through which she offers "...mere sips, to whet the appetites of those who have not already discovered the poetic riches ......

Today's "Poem-A-Day" from the Academy of American Poets is "For My Grandmother's Perfume, Norell," by Nickole Brown. The poem is from Brown's forthcoming collection Fanny Says, out by BOA in 2015. We are so looking forward to putting this collection in your hands -- enjoy the sneak peek from the Academy! Click here to read the poem. About the Poem: "'For My Grandmother's Perfume, Norell' is a poem from Fanny Says, a book to be published by BOA Editions in the spring of 2015. All of the poems in this collection circle around my grandmother, Frances Lee Cox, an unforgettable...

Each year during the Rochester International Jazz Festival, BOA Editions collaborates with the Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) to bring Rochesterians and festival-goers a night of literature, jazz, and art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smx0eKd2KEA Literature (poetry) and jazz have long walked hand-in-hand, so, naturally, we at BOA do our part to infuse the spirit of the Rochester International Jazz Festival with verse. This year marked our fifth “Poetry is Jazz” event, hosted at RoCo during its 6x6x2013 exhibit, the “international small art phenomenon.” Our featured BOA author was Douglas Watson, whose new debut fiction collection The Era of Not Quite was just released...

We are thrilled to announce that PEN American Center has chosen BOA's recent translation Diadem: Selected Poems by Marosa di Giorgio, translated from the Spanish by Adam Giannelli, for the Shortlist of the PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation! For more than 50 years, the PEN Literary Awards, from PEN American Center, have honored many of the most outstanding voices in literature across such diverse fields as fiction, poetry, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, translation, and drama. “We are proud that PEN’s Literary Awards are the most comprehensive in the country,” said PEN Executive Director, Suzanne...