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Just days ago, Star Tribune reviewed one of BOA's newest titles The Reindeer Camps by Barton Sutter, calling the poet a "virtuoso of form" and "meter," a rather rare quality today. The review also makes it clear: this is poetry with a sense of humor! Sutter's poetry so naturally embodies rhythm, metaphor, and rhyme, that the review acknowledges it's no surprise that Sutter is also a musician. With musical quality, playful descriptions, and profound insight, Sutter's The Reindeer Camps shows he is "unafraid to employ meter and humor" as he "revels in the natural world" and writes poems "that reveal...

Recently, Ryan Teitman's Litany for the City was reviewed and highly praised by Mary: Journal of New Writing. The careful and thoughtful review catches on (and gives full credit and appreciation) to all the finer details of Teitman's new book.  Highlighted are the skills Teitman employs through his language and other poetic devices:  from his choice of the word "litany" to his use of the preposition "for" in the book's title. Called "impressive" by the review, it is suggested that the artfulness of Litany for the City comes from Teitman's ability to balance "curiosity about present and ancient cities" without...

Douglas Watson, the first-ever winner of BOA's annual Short Fiction Contest, recently had his short-short story "Life on the Moon" chosen by Wigleaf as one of the best of 2012! Each summer, Wigleaf chooses 50 outstanding short fictions -- uniquely all under 1,000 words -- for its "Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of the Year" list. As excitement builds for the spring 2013 release of Watson's BOA fiction collection, The Era of Not Quite, we couldn't be more thrilled for Watson and the spreading of his words into the world! Here is the brilliant (very) short story, from Tin...

Please join us in welcoming Jenna Fuller to BOA Editions! Jenna recently graduated from Roberts Wesleyan College with degrees in English and Communication. She is originally from the Adirondacks in Upstate New York (lived next to a ski mountain but has never been skiing), and now lives in Rochester where she will be getting married this October. She likes to write short fiction and memoir in her spare time, but is even more committed to getting involved with and spreading the conversations of other authors. She also loves coffee, gardening, and her lunatic cat, Stuart. Jenna’s official title is Director...

The extensive collection, Your Father on The Train of Ghosts, evolved when two outstanding poets e-mailed one another for the period of a year. John Pursley III reviews this collection written by both G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher in Diagram (12.2). Pursley explains the differences between Waldrep's and Gallaher's poetry and background. What is more interesting is that Pursley believes the poets lose their individual voices, and yet another distinct voice is created "which operates like the ghosts suggested by the title." Pursley also says, "Many of the best poems in this collection slip effortlessly from moments of childlike inquisitiveness...