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To our readers, an apology-- BOA has been giving you so many good reads lately, your eyes are probably exhausted. To make amends, we offer this great audio discussion from the Poetry Foundation on the late W. D. Snodgrass! The discussion, titled "People Don't Read This Way Anymore," explores the late, great W.D. Snodgrass's formalism, dark humor, and passionate reading style. It is part of the Poetry Off the Shelf series, in which Producer Curtis Fox and Ernest Hilbert examine the world of contemporary American poetry with readings by poets, interviews with critics, and short poetry documentaries. So go ahead-...

A couple days ago, Minnesota Reader posted a review of Reindeer Camps by Bart Sutter. The author of the review, Mike Link, warns of the difficulty to write reviews of poetry, but that doesn't stop him from giving a thorough and honest rundown of the book that we'd love to share with you! The review discusses the book in its sections, or "chapters if it was prose." The first section examines darker things, the ones that "challenge our perspectives." There were certainly tons of quotes from the book, always handy with a line or two to support one of the...

Aracelis Girmay, receiving non-stop praise for her new collection Kingdom Animalia, will be one of the poets featured this upcoming month at the 2012 annual Poets House Showcase. This FREE exhibit, which will be open to the public and held at the Poets House in New York, NY, is the only event of its kind, giving dedicated attention to all things poetry. The FREE event is "diverse" and "inclusive," and is committed to making sure that "books from micro-presses receive the same care and attention as major publishers." The FREE Showcase Opening will be held this Saturday, June 30 (that's...

We would like to celebrate the birthday of one of the world's most distinguished poets, the late Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936, -- February 13, 2010), who would have been 76 today. Born in Depew, New York, Ms. Clifton is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry and more than sixteen children's books, written expressly for an African American audience. Though her list of awards and recognitions is staggering, even more remarkable is the love she has elicited from her readers. National Book Award and Ruth Lilly Prize winner, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist (in the same year!),...

BOA Editions has five new publications coming this Fall: The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (September 11), To Keep Love Blurry by Craig Morgan Teicher (September 11), Theophobia by Bruce Beasley (October 16), Diadem by Marosa di Giorgio (November 13), and Passwords Primeval by Tony Leuzzi (November 13). We're hard at work bringing these wonderful publications to life, and super excited for all of these new additions to the BOA family! In an effort to share the excitement with you (why should we have all the fun?), we're putting some spotlight on one of our forthcoming books, revealing to you some of our...