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Publishers Weekly recently announced its list of the best new titles being published this spring.  Out of the 6,000 titles submitted, ten were chosen for each genre.  In what is called, "a strong season for poetry," G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher's new collaboration Your Father on the Train of Ghosts found its way into the top-ten list of spring poetry. Reviewer Craig Morgan Teicher, who refers to Waldrep and Gallaher as "two rising poetic stars," writes, "The result of the collaboration sounds like neither of their poetic voices; rather, it's a weird third voice you'll want to get to know."  Read Publishers Weekly's full list here...

Calling Cradle Book "among the year's most innovative work," Danniel Schoonebeek reviews Craig Morgan Teicher's latest book of poems as both imaginative and unsettling.  Schoonebeek compares Teicher to several other American poets who are "breaking the boundaries of contemporary form to establish new aesthetic frontiers."  He writes that while Cradle Book stems from traditional folklore, Teicher creates his own new form.  "Teicher's is a speaker, who like a god, likes to dictate the terms of his universe, of his story, by speaking them into existence.  In fact, Teicher's speaker is not a speaker at all - he is a storyteller."   Read the full review here The Rumpus.net

BOA Editions is proud to welcome Albert Abonado to the staff! Al spent the last few months working for BOA as the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize Coordinator and volunteering his time helping at readings and events. He has proven himself to be a wonderful team player and a passionate advocate for poetry and literature. As of February 1st, Al will officially join the BOA staff as Associate Director of Marketing and Production. His duties will include assisting in all areas of marketing and promotion as well as guiding books through the various stages of production, warehousing, release, and reprinting.   Al received his B.A in Sociology from SUNY Geneseo. He also holds an...

The Fall 2010 issue of Pluma Fronteriza, a newsletter of Chicano(a) and Latino(a) writers of the El Paso and Cd. Juarez Border Region, features this review of Ray Gonzalez's newest prose poetry collection, Cool Auditor:    "Fusing the real with the surreal and the natural world with human relationships, Gonzalez creates his own brand of magical realism.  Gonzalez also brings pop humor in such poems as "The Guitars," which uses the word "guitar" in almost every sentence to talk about the true (and not so true) lives of rock stars.  David Lazar notes, 'Ray Gonzalez may be our most essential prose poet.'"...

Great news! Craig Morgan Teicher's Cradle Book was named by the prestigious Story Prize as a notable book of 2010. Check out the list of semi-finalists for the award over at the Story Prize Blog. This praise adds to the growing list of recognition for Teicher's debut collection of short stories, which was - oddly enough - also named by The New Yorker as a top poetry collection of the year due to Dan Chiasson's insistence on "counting [Teicher's collection] as ‘prose poems’ mainly to get them on this list.” Make sure to pick up your copy of Teicher's highly...