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BOA author Aracelis Girmay We here at BOA could not be more excited to announce that Aracelis Girmay will be featured in two upcoming events hosted by the Poetry Society of America in the next few months. Girmay is the author of two collections of poetry; Teeth (2007) and most recently, Kingdom Animalia, which received the 2011 Isabella Gardner Award. On November 8, in Cambridge, MA, Girmay will be joined by fellow poets Rosa Alcala and Eduardo C. Corral for the premier of the LATINO/A POETRY NOW reading series. The series is set to begin in Cambridge, MA and proceed...

[caption id="attachment_1446" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Michael Waters' Gospel Night "][/caption] Matthew Guenette of the Southern Indiana Review's "First Takes with Matthew Guenette" asks himself "What is in the work of a title?" After reading Waters' tenth collection of poems, Guenette finds the poet's ability to provoke tension from diction something worth turning over and over again while considering both words of the title. The "work of this title," as Guenette writes, conclusively demonstrates the mastery of word choice and form to be found in each poem of the collection. Guenette sees the four sections of Gospel Night as individual guides for...

[caption id="attachment_1442" align="alignleft" width="195" caption="BOA staff members Albert Abonado, Melissa Hall and Peter Conners"][/caption] Today's CITY Newspaper article concerning the upcoming BOA event-- the Dine & Rhyme on Sunday September 18th -- is not simply a flyer or advertisement, but a reminder of BOA's legacy and the  higher importance of Poetry. Thank you to CITY for sharing the news about BOA, past, present and future. The CITY Article with the wonderful BOA history can be found here. This year's Dine & Rhyme is specially themed in honor of our 35th anniversary.  The event will start at 3PM with a poetry...

Adam McOmber, BOA poet NewPages Book Reviews had high words for Adam McOmber's most recent short story collection, This New and Poisonous Air, which blends historical fiction with fantasy and the macabre. NewPages critic, Patricia Contino praises McOmber's eye for detail as well as his sense of storytelling, stating that "every page has a paragraph or more worth savoring." However, "McOmber's gift for detail never infringes on the narrative." Stories such as "Fall, Orpheum" - in which "a small town movie palace becomes the temple for an entire town’s devotion and sacrifice" - not only exemplify McOmber's sense of narrative...