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Happy Thanksgiving from BOA!

[caption id="attachment_1442" align="alignleft" width="195" caption="BOA staff members Albert Abonado, Melissa Hall and Peter Conners"][/caption] On behalf of the staff and board of BOA Editions, we are thankful for all our authors, readers, and supporters!

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Aleš Šteger reads from his works and talks about poetry in Slovenia.

In a recent Poetry Foundation podcast, BOA author Aleš Šteger discusses his most recent work, The Book of Things, as well as his creative process. For those of you not in the know, with his first book of poems, Chessboards of Hours, published in 1995 when he was 22 years old, Aleš Šteger established himself as one of Slovenia’s most promising poets. In the decade and a half since, Šteger has more than lived up to that promise, releasing three additional books of poetry. He's a phenomenal poet making this podcast a real treat, so give it a listen! Click...

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Less Than Two Weeks Left to Enter the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize!

[caption id="attachment_1407" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Cornelius Eady."][/caption] November 30th, 2011 will be the last day that you will be able to submit your manuscript for this year's A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, so don't forget to mark your calendars!  The winner will receive a $1,500 honorarium and will be published as part of our A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series in Spring 2013. Now in it's 11th year, winners of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize include Deborah Brown, Keetje  Kuipers, Jennifer Kronovet, Dan Albergotti and Janice N. Harrington. Recipients of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize have gone...

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The Good People of Tottenville Have Reviewed "To Assume a Pleasing Shape"

Scott Cheshire of the Tottenville Review recently reviewed Joseph Salvatore’s debut collection of short stories, To Assume a Pleasing Shape. The review focuses on Salvatore’s ability to make the process of internal thought fluid, interesting, intelligent, and re-readable. “Salvatore’s writing is the kind that invites re-reading, and freely dipping in here and there. This kind of writing is rare.” The review goes on to explain that these short stories are “are lovingly drawn portraits of painful inner lives in largely threatening liminal spaces, those heartbreaking and often hilarious border moments just before our world decides to right itself, or maybe...

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ROC the Day with BOA!

If you haven’t heard already, big things are just around the corner here in Rochester! On December 8, 2011, an epic one-day giving event, ROC the Day, will take place. On this day thousands of community members will be able to make an end-of-year gift to help advance their philanthropic passions, by making online donations to the area not-for-profit of their choice. It’s like a telethon…without the phones… BOA is on the list of not-for-profits participating in this year’s ROC the Day event, so please, click here to go to BOA’s ROC the Day webpage, check out what we’ve been...

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