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Although we posted before about BOA's first ever Pop-Up Poetry Reading at Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, back in April, we thought we'd share these beautiful pictures of the event. Bernadette Catalana, BOA Board Chair Jonathan Everitt, BOA Board member Jonathan reading, with Jack in the background Jack Langerak, BOA Board Member Bernadette talking with Jack Cindy Rogers, BOA Board Member All photographs courtesy of Will Ingalls. Future BOA Editions Pop-Up Poetry Events are in the works--check back here to find out more!

We want to extend a special congrats to BOA author Aracelis Girmay and translator Deniz Perin! Aracelis' forthcoming collection, Kingdom Animalia, has been chosen as the Rumpus Poetry Book Club Selection for August. The club makes copies of the book available one month prior to its publication date and also features interviews with selected authors. It's a wonderful way to spread the word about outstanding new poetry books and an auspicious start for Kingdom Animalia. Find out more about the Rumpus Poetry Book Club here: http://therumpus.net/the-rumpus-poetry-book-club/. Kingdom Animalia is being published in September as winner of BOA's 2011 Isabella Gardner Award....

In their Spring 2011 issue, the Review of Contemporary Fiction featured BOA author Anne Germanacos's collection of short stories, In the Time of the Girls, published Fall 2010. The reviewer notes that each story within the collection consciously collects "small yet luminous moments into some larger mosaic." Germanacos's prose is lauded for "the sharp glimmer" which each mosaic-like story possesses, further lending "an entire universe of meaning" to each individual tale. Among other praise for the book was the following: "Germanacos's evocative prose delivers precise and lasting images in a series of vignettes, each carefully crafted with a minimalist's patience...

Dear Short Fiction Writers, Time to print those pages and peel those stamps! There's only 13 days left to mail in your submssion for the 1st BOA Short Fiction Prize. The winner receives publication by BOA Editions in the American Reader Series in Spring 2013 and a $500 Honorarium. All submissions will be read by BOA Publisher Peter Conners who will also make the final selection. Here are the complete guidelines: [BOA Short Fiction Prize] We hope to read your submission soon! Sincerely, BOA

Head West out of Rochester on Interstate 90 and within an hour you'll hit Buffalo. Or you can just click on the below link and get a taste of literary Buffalo through the eyes of R.D. Pohl of the Buffalo News. This week, R.D. celebrates the Best Translated Book of the Year Award for The Book of Things by Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger, translated by noted poet and translator Brian Henry: "BOA Editions, Ltd., the Rochester, New York based small press with an outsized literary reputation, added another honor to its collection last month when University of Richmond based poet Brian Henry's English-language translation of Slovenian...