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Peter Makuck, the author of Long Lens: New and Selected Poems, has won the Brockman-Campbell Book Award for 2011. The award is given out by the North Carolina Poetry Society for a book-length volume of poetry published in the previous year written by a native or resident North Carolinian.  Makuck joins 2010 winner Dannye Romine Powell, author of A Necklace of Bees. Congratulations to Peter! Long Lens: New and Selected Poems is available for purchase here.

Don't miss Sean Thomas Dougherty, BOA and more tonight at ROCO for an Evening of Jazz and Poetry! It'll be a blast, I promise. About Our Sponsor This year's Evening of Jazz and Poetry is being sponsored by Lavin, O'Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & DiSipio, Attorneys at Law. The Lavin firm, founded 25 years ago in Philadelphia, PA, is nationally known for its local, regional and national counsel work in product liability, environmental, toxic tort and mass tort litigation. The firm represents domestic and international manufacturers of pharmaceutical, automotive, electrical, medical and heavy equipment, and asbestos products. The firm also handles...

A reminder to everyone in the Rochester area - tomorrow is BOA's annual Poetry & Jazz event. This has quickly become a favorite of poetry and jazz lovers. If you haven't attended the event before, this is your chance to catch an amazing blend of poetry, jazz and art (including a live "real-time" painting by artist Steve Smock). See you at ROCO!

There's a big party in the works to celebrate BOA author Adam McOmber and his first collection of short stories! The Book Cellar is hosting a launch party for Adam McOmber's Pushcart-nominated short story collection, This New & Poisonous Air, in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. June 16, 2011 -- starting at 7 PM. The launch party will be at: The Book Cellar 4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60625 This New & Poisonous Air is availible for pre-order now!

Writer Joseph Salvatore was spotted recently at a reading at Unnameable Books, in the heart of Prospect Heights in Brooklyn.  Accompanying such authors as Catherine Lacey, Donald Breckenridge, Robert Lopez and Holly Tavel, the exuberantly energetic Salvatore read a short excerpt from his To Assume a Pleasing Shape, which will be available in November. Joseph Salvatore and friend Rachel Heiman before the event Wearing a Newbury Comics t-shirt and with a shaved head, Salvatore "seemed like a guy who might coach you to make your first ollie in a skatepark." The stream-of-consciousness short story "Late Thaw" seemed to hit a...