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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...

We are thrilled to announce that the New Hampshire Writer's Project has awarded Deborah Brown's Walking the Dog's Shadow their "Outstanding Poetry Book" award. The award, which is given to a poet's outstanding book or chapbook of poetry every two or three years, has previously been won by such writers as Charles Simic and Maxine Kumin. Deborah Brown's collection was selected  by Tony Hoagland as the 2010 winner of BOA's A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Walking the Dog's Shadow was published in April 2011. We hope you will check out these poems and more on Deborah Brown if you have...

BOA Editions is very happy to announce that Hey Small Press! has selected two of our books for their November list.  For those unfamiliar with Hey Small Press!, it is are a relatively new non-profit that does the good work of promoting independent publishers to public libraries around the United States.  From the Hey Small Press! website: "We are Hey Small Press!, a non-profit project promoting independent publishers to public libraries all over the United States. Founded by current and former public library employees, we exist to encourage libraries to acquire small and independent press books. We love good books...

The story of how Your Father on the Train of Ghosts was conceived by two esteemed poets, emailing back and forth pieces of poems, has become, for some, as interesting as the poems themselves. However, as Mike Walker of Coal Hill explains in his review, “the proof of the pudding must be in the eating, not in the size of the kitchen, the name of the chef, or anything else.” At first, Walker admits, he “wondered how well the innovative concept of shared writing of poetry via email would work out” and even feared that the Waldrep he’d “come to...

[caption id="attachment_1515" align="alignleft" width="144" caption="Kim Addonizio, photo by Joe Allen"][/caption] Kim Addonizio released Tell Me in 2000. The title invites us to sit and let it all out... and that's exactly what Addonizio does. The poems in part 1, "The Singing," introduce us to Kim's" letting it out," night after night wondering who else is still awake in her neighborhood of bars and weary voices.  In "Target" Addonizio shoots a gun with so much satisfaction that we wonder when we'll get our chance to fire. Come to think of it, maybe it's about that time: It feels so good to shoot a gun, to stand with your...