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Mere weeks into the new year, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, set to be released by BOA this September, is already being called a 2012 must-read by reviewer Craig Morgan Teicher from NPR Books. In a composite review of 8 highly recommended poetry collections for 2012, Teicher puts Clifton’s at the top of the list. He praises her work by suggesting to readers that - should they only read one poetry book in 2012 - Clifton’s new collection “ought to be it.” As excitement builds for the release of this monumental book, which contains all of Clifton’s published (and a...

Poet Nikola Madzirov, whose collection Remnants of Another Age was published by Boa Editions March 2011, has been showcased in the Oxford Brookes Poetry Center's Poem of the Week service, selecting his poem "The One Who Writes." In case you haven't subscribed to the Poem of the Week newsletter, which you can easily do by clicking here, each week, the Poetry Centre sends out works "from new poets and established names, from sections of sequences to works in translation," to your inbox, helping to foster connections between poets, academics, and poetry readers. You can read "The One Who Writes," and...

Watch Weekly Poem: From 'Movements Forward, Movements Away' on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. PBS NewsHour is featuring Peter Conners, publisher at BOA Editions, as their Poet of the Week due to his imaginative prose in "Movements Forward, Movements Away." The poem captures the reader from the beginning till end. Watch the video above to hear Peter's reading or click here to visit PBS to read the excerpt as well. GO PETER!!!!!

BOA author Aimee Parkison So as a BOA intern I spend a lot of my time here surfing some of the stranger corners of the web, but every now and again I’m sent to a website that is genuinely awesome. The Nervous Breakdown.com is one such site. TNB, for me at least, just has the perfect balance of intellectualism, youthfulness and that intangible coolness to it. Anyways, not too long ago TNB had a “Six Question Sex Interview” with BOA poet, Aimee Parkison in light of her recent work in Men Undressed. The new title is a collection of short...

BOA poet Barbara Jane Reyes BOA poet Barbara Jane Reyes was recently interviewed in the third issue of TAYO Literary Magazine In it, Reyes discusses her thoughts on what it means to be a Filipina American poet, where her inspiration derives, and even gives advice to young writers who may be struggling with the age-old mantra “write about what you know.” “I write not what I know, but rather what I want to find out. Much of what I write begins with a question, or a problem, or a visual in my mind that I need to unravel, give depth...