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Polish writer Jacek Gutorow's most recent collection, The Folding Star and Other Poems (BOA, 2012) has been saluted by Hey, Small Press! as one of the top reads on this month's book list. A poet, translator, and literary critic, Gutorow has published five books of poems and five collections of critical essays, and has received some of the most significant literary awards in Poland. According to Hey, Small Press!, Gutorow's The Folding Star and Other Poems is "meditative and beautiful, his diction fragile and clear- thanks in no small part to the wonderful work of translator Piotr Florczyk." Gutorow's work...

Over the course of a year, acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher wrote poems back and forth to one another on an almost daily basis. From this communication emerged the collection Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA, 2011). The title poem of the collection is this week's featured poem by the Oxford Brookes University Poetry Center. The poem is described by the OBU Poetry Center as a  "user-friendly self-help manual for the end of time. " It explores not only the voices of the two artists, but a subtle third 'voice' that emerges along their journey. John...

Dorianne Laux, renowned poet and judge of this year’s A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Contest, is being featured today by American Life in Poetry! Every week, American Life in Poetry provides a free column featuring contemporary American poetry online and to newspapers around the world. The star poem of this week’s column is “Family Stories,” from Smoke (BOA Editions 2000)! The organization’s current online/newspaper readership stretches to about 3 million each week, in addition to the several thousand email subscribers from countries around the world: Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Indonesia, Uganda, Bangladesh, Egypt, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Italy, France, Canada,...

Tomorrow night at 7pm, the Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore, MD) will honor Lucille Clifton with a Pre-Publication Celebration for The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010. The event will include an exhibition of photos of Lucille Clifton which will remain on display until September 29.  Tomorrow’s dedication will feature a line-up of outstanding poets and writers remembering Clifton and her life’s work, including Nikki Giovanni and Afaa Michael Weaver. Also presiding as emcee will be Michael S. Glaser, co-editor of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 and former Maryland Poet Laureate. Honoring the Life and Poetic Legacy of...

Hungry for some quality poetic sustenance? Anywhere near the West coast this Saturday? If you've answered "Yes!" to either or both of these questions, then you won't want to miss Ryan Teitman's reading of his new collection Litany for the City, going on this Saturday night (June 16), 7 pm at the Elliot Bay Book Company in Seattle! This is a FREE event and is open to the public! BOA poet, former journalist, and Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford, Teitman was chosen by Jane Hirshfield, from more than 600 applicants, as the 2010 winner of the annual A....