BOA Blog

Last week, an interview with Publisher Peter Conners was aired on Need To Know Rochester, a television program of Rochester's local WXXI News. Conners, along with the last few bookstore owners in the Rochester area, discuss the movement from print books to e-books, as well as the effects of major chains and websites like Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. Conners gives insight into how an independent publisher like BOA deals with the e-book trend, and notes that BOA’s sales still come primarily from books in print. He also comments that when BOA books are course-adopted for classrooms, students tend to prefer...

Poet and artist Lauren Camp praises Jacek Gutorow’s poem “Origami,” from the new translation The Folding Star and Other Poems, as she takes a moment to "ponder" its essence. On her blog, “Which Silk Shirt,” she calls readers to the same action: "Do you ever have days like this? Moments of absolute conviction that something is happening, when maybe, nothing in fact is? What does a poem like this mean to you? It is both precise and dreamy, a poem of utter compression. And the title — how does that impact your reading of this work?" Camp commends “Origami” as “both...

BOA's newest translation Diadem: Selected Poems (2012) is on NewPages' list of New and Noteworthy Books! The list—which primarily focuses on works from independent and university publishers—comes out a least once a month. Holding comparisons to such writers as Franz Kafka, Julio Cortázar, Russell Edson, and Charles Simic, Marosa di Giorgio is one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in Latin American poetry. "Translator Adam Giannelli’s careful selection of poems spans the enormous output of di Giorgio’s career to help further introduce English-language readers to this vibrant and original poet." Purchase Diadem, today!

Today's Poem-of-the-Day at the Academy of American Poets is "Immortality" by Craig Morgan Teicher. On his Facebook page, Teicher calls the poem a "weird prose piece from a new project." We thought we'd share it with you. Immortality I feel like Emily Dickinson did, running her pale finger over each blade of grass, then caressing each root in the depths of the earth's primeval dirt, each tip tickling heaven's soft underbelly. I feel like Emily alone in her room, her hands folded neatly in her lap, waiting forever for one of those two daguerreotypes to embalm her precious soul. At...

Many congratulations to BOA poet Craig Morgan Teicher for having his poem "The Prince of Rivers" featured as Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre’s weekly poem! The Centre selected the poem from Teicher’s Fall 2012 release To Keep Love Blurry. The Prince of Rivers In the land of rivers I was the prince of rivers. In the land of houses I lived in a thousand houses. In the land of scattered bones my bones were scattered by worshipful princes who carried each one like a scepter. I was there and a breeze eddied around me. In the land of questions I was...