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We're thrilled to have four BOA titles noted in Library Journal's May-Sept Poetry Round-Up! The Reindeer Camps (9781934414842) “Barton Sutter uses mostly formal structure and quietly unadorned language to chronicle village life on the Canadian border and the culture of ancient Siberian reindeer herders in The Reindeer Camps” To Keep Love Blurry (9781934414934) “Craig Morgan Teicher, a Colorado Prize for Poetry winner offers clear-eyed, blazing verse as he tracks a path from son (who lost a mother young) to husband and father in To Keep Love Blurry.” The Folding Star: And Other Poems (9781934414880) “Polish poet Jacek Gutorow’s bilingual translated...

BOA publisher Peter Conners was in for a very pleasant surprise this morning when he hopped into a New York City taxicab and was greeted by a familiar sight. The poem "Noche de Lluvia, San Salvador" by  Aracelis Girmay from her latest collection Kingdom Animalia (BOA 2011), appeared on Taxi TV  as he was being whisked from JFK to his sales conference downtown. How cool is that? Girmay's poem, along with the poem "Graduation" by Dorothea Tanning, is being used for the re-launch of the Poetry Society of America and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Poetry in Motion program. Dormant for the past...

Poetry is celebrated every month in The Washington Independent Review! BOA's publications True Faith by Ira Sadoff, The Folding Star by Jacek Gutorow, translated by Piotr Florczyk, and Litany for the City by Ryan Teitman are April Exemplars in The Washington Independent Review. Grace Cavalieri reviews each title and highlights the prose in each. Cavalieri, a poet and playwright, describes Teitman's cities as holograms of places, colors, people and possibilities. She says that Gutorow, "is a lyrical poet who ponders the edges of what cannot be known. And Sadoff's new book is an arsenal of wit and strong sensations." The...

Check out Mike Walker's review of Ira Sadoff's True Faith over at the Coal Hill Review. Walker sees Sadoff as a chronicler of American society, a guise through which he practices poetry and vice versa.  It is in this regard that Walker compares Sadoff's vocation as a writer to I.B. Singer, in that he has a "near-scientific ability to record the topography of both place and emotion, but also the discerning nature to make something more of it than a narrow historiography." Such topographies range  in physicality, describing the United States from Virginia to Texas, and of course depicting the...

Ece Temelkuran is a fighter. She has spent the bulk of her career chronicling, and combating, governmental rot in the name of the common people for various news syndicates around the world, and it is with this in mind that Andrew Scoggins from Poetry International approaches her collection of poems Book of the Edge in his review. Scoggins attributes Temelkuran's conciseness to her journalistic experiences, citing it among the collection's strengths. "Compelling," "empowering," and "inspiring" are among the many words Scoggins uses to describe this collection. Head over to Poetry International's blog to read the whole review.