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That's right! Advance-copies of Craig Morgan Teicher's To Keep Love Blurry are currently on sale from the BOA Bookstore! The book will be officially released in September, so don't miss this chance to get an amazing book into your hands before anyone else! (And don't forget to check out all our other forthcoming, equally exciting Fall books.) [caption id="attachment_1864" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Pick up an advance copy today!"][/caption] "Inspired by Robert Lowell’s Life Studies, Craig Morgan Teicher’s To Keep Love Blurry is an exploration of the charged and troubled spaces between intimately connected people: husbands and wives, parents and children, writers and...

BOA poet Aracelis Girmay has been named as a finalist for the 11th Annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Kingdom Animalia (BOA 2011)! Quoting from their website, the award honors "exemplary works of literature before the national community of Black writers. By honoring these nominees, we're recognizing the profound significance, necessity, and genius of Black writers and the stories they tell." Kingdom Animalia was selected by a group of published authors as one of just three nominees in the Poetry category. The award is also offered in Fiction and Nonfiction categories. The award ceremony will be held December 1, 2012, at...

Ko Un's Flowers of a Moment is currently being featured in the Summer 2012 issue of Ceries Press, in an essay by Melissa Kwasny entitled "The Flower Artist." In her essay, Kwasny explores the nature and identity of the flower in and as art, referencing a diverse canon of floral study that includes Charles Baudelaire, the German mystic poet Novalis, Morris Graves, Piet Mondrian, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, and BOA's own poets Ko Un and Adonis. Kwasny describes how the flower is a conduit and reflection of human experiences, acting as a point through which we both access and view what Baudelaire...

As the majority of you probably already know from our copious number of notifications on the blog, Tuesday, June 26th featured  BOA's Evening of Jazz, Poetry, and Art at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center. For those who were able to attend, we hope you enjoyed it and thanks for coming! For those who had to walk the dog, wash the car, etc.-- not to worry! We have some great footage of the night's highlights freshly available on Youtube for your viewing pleasure! There are two parts to the video, featuring readings by BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty, artwork by Sarah...

Ira Sadoff is already receiving sparkling reviews for his recent True Faith, just released this past spring! In "That's Where My God Is: A Review of True Faith," Anne Webster of The Chattahoochee Review has called Sadoff's collection "an unflinching exploration of himself and his life," specifically referring to his relationship with faith, mortality, disillusionment, and "the search for meaning." Webster goes on to describe the work's three sections, which move from Sadoff's childhood past and the factors that influenced his addressing of religion, to exploration of major events in his spiritual life, to "present-day influences and his resulting skepticism"...