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Each year, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (a.k.a. AWP) holds a huge conference in a different city. This year the AWP Conference takes place in Washington, D.C. from Feb 2-5. As usual, BOA will be there selling books, meeting people, and soaking up the creative energy generated by having thousands of writers and publishers in the same place. If you're attending AWP, please visit the BOA tables: B31 and B32 Many of our authors will be on discussion panels and involved with readings and talks about journals, creative writing programs, etc. Here are a few BOA-specific highlights to mark...

In the new issue of Fogged Clarity, poet and critic Scott Hightower takes a smart look at Jeanne Marie Beaumont's new collection, Burning of the Three Fires:  "Burning of the Three Fires is Jeanne Marie Beaumont’s third book. The overriding characteristic of Beaumont’s poems is their exuberant exploration of poetic possibilities; i.e., variation. Beaumont is interested in the modal possibilities of poetry, she is no dabbler. Her interest is smart, abiding – and, ultimately for the reader, rewarding." Read the complete review here [Fogged Clarity on Burning of the Three Fires] [caption id="attachment_1137" align="aligncenter" width="265" caption="Jeanne Marie Beaumont. BOA poet."][/caption]

BOA fiction author Anne Germanacos (In the Time of the Girls) appeared on KPFK, Pacifica Radio for Southern California and you can hear it online here: www.kpfk.org Here's what the station had to say about the show: "8 PM on KPFK, Pacifica Radio for Southern California: The fragmented-seeming narratives written by my guest this week offer at first individual voices and epigrammatic lines suggesting ancient inscription, references to classical mythology. A schematic almost for storytelling itself, bigger stories accumulate and culminate in an adding up of the sum of parts. The individual sections of stories in Anne Germanacos’s In the...

Hot on the heels of BOA Edition's October Writing Exercises event, our inaugural master class in poetry and prose with BOA author Christopher Kennedy and esteemed visiting writer Gary Lutz, we are delighted to announce the second installment of Writing Exercises with BOA's own Sean Thomas Dougherty! BOA's Writing Exercises workshops are held at Rochester's Midtown Athletic Club and offer participants the chance to work closely with BOA authors to exercise their creative muscles and learn new techniques to create their own work. Each event features a workshop, reading and lunch. Drawing on the event's setting, Sean's upcoming workshop -...

The January/February issue of Poets & Writers magazine features their 6th annual "Debut Poets" feature. This section spotlights poets who have published their first collection in the previous year. We're thrilled that BOA's own Keetje Kuipers has been profiled for the feature for her A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize-winning book, Beautiful in the Mouth! Along with some fun "stats" (Time Spent Writing the Book: Four Years) Keetje provides some insights into her writing process: “I try to push the poem as far as I can before I pull the car over or borrow a pen from a corner bodega—I’ve inhaled as...