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Bloodaxe Books, releasing Nikola Madzirov’s Remnants of Another Age in the U.K. this year, recently put out a sensational video of Madzirov reading poetry from the collection, in both English and his native Macedonian language. First published by BOA in 2011, Li-Young Lee has said that Madzirov's collection “move[s] mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind” and that its “linguistic ‘making’ is informed by and vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making.” Take a few minutes to watch the beautiful video below, and hear Madzirov read eight of...

Poet Christopher Kennedy, reading at SUNY Brockport; Photo by Peter Conners BOA poet and translator Christopher Kennedy read last night (April 17, 2013) at SUNY Brockport, an event which was hosted by the college's The Writer's Forum, recognized as one of the outstanding reading series in the country. Kennedy read from his three BOA titles: Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (2007); Ennui Prophet (2011); and his new Pakistani translation Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems by Zeeshan Sahil (2013). The event was a success, and Kennedy did a great job. Christopher Kennedy's poetry is funny, deadpan, self-effacing...

Called a “tangled process of remembering” by Luke Wiget of BOMB magazine's BOMBLOG.com, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance is a “remembrance of love and death and God.” The critically acclaimed and American Book Award-winning memoir, originally published in 1995 and then put out of print, has been reissued by BOA this spring, with a new Foreword by Li-Young Lee and a collection of his family and childhood photographs. "To hear Lee’s voice in the present, some 18 years after the book’s initial publication and sounding just as sure and also as shaky, is the real appeal with this new publication,"...

Attention poetry translators: In just two shorts weeks, BOA will begin accepting submissions for its Lannan Translations Series, from May 1 - June 15. The Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is funding two new collections of contemporary international poetry published by BOA Editions in 2013. These funds support production costs and author and translator royalties. BOA Editions is grateful to the Lannan Foundation for its support of poetry and the art of translation. Interested in submitting? Click here to see the guidelines and our previously published translation titles. See also our newest translation Light and Heavy Things (officially on...

Library Journal is calling Hugh Martin's debut The Stick Soldiers "a collection about loyalty, country, and his return home to Ohio after completing an 11-month deployment in the Middle East." "War is unforgettable," continues the LJ review, "and Martin comes out of the desert a soldier’s poet." Pre-order your own copy of Martin's The Stick Soldiers, today! Happy National Poetry Month! Through the end of April, purchase a book of poetry and we’ll "gift" a free book of poetry to the recipient of your choice! Click here for more details.