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Cradle Book comes off its mention in the New Yorker as one of the “Eleven Best Poetry Books of 2010” with a lovely review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Among other things, the review points out: “Ours is a world in which fables are uncomfortable inhabitants. Craig Morgan Teicher, the 2007 Colorado Prize-winning poet for "Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems," knows this. He knows we are unlikely to fall for (or follow) some pithy statement about how we ought to live our lives. Instead, in "Cradle Book," he leaves the reader, usually in some charged darkness, wondering what to...

[caption id="attachment_369" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="Naomi Shihab Nye. BOA Poet."][/caption] We're thrilled to announce that BOA will publish Naomi Shihab Nye's new poetry collection, Transfer, in September 2011! Naomi is a long-time BOA author and a bona fide American  poetry treasure. If you ever get the chance to hear her read... take it. We guarantee that her voice and presence will stay with you for many, many moons afterwards. Here's a little taste of what we're talking about. The Academy of American Poets just posted a clip of Naomi reading the poem "Alive" from the Transfer collection. Enjoy! [Naomi Shihab Nye reads "Alive"]

On Dec 6, 2010 the New Yorker published a list of the “Eleven Best Poetry Books of 2010” compiled by Dan Chiasson. We are thrilled to say that Cradle Book by Craig Morgan Teicher made the list! Chiasson calls it, “A touching book of fables and fairy tales you could read to a child, saturated with Teicher’s unusually gentle and weird imagination. I’m counting these as ‘prose poems’ mainly to get them on this list.” It's worth noting that BOA started our fiction series with the intention of focusing on collections that fall between the gaps of fiction and poetry. Cradle Book...

Kryssa Schemmerling reviews Jeanne Marie Beaumont's new collection, Burning of the Three Fires, in the current issue of BigCityLit. Does she like it?  "Dolls, brides, fairytale heroines, and anorexics all make appearances, as Beaumont offers multiple views of womanhood from a variety of angles. Rather than overwhelming us with personal information, the poet dons various masks, peeking out from behind them to offer measured, tantalizing glimpses of what we imagine to be her inner state." Read the whole review here [BigCityLit review of Burning of the Three Fires] [caption id="attachment_1137" align="aligncenter" width="265" caption="Jeanne Marie Beaumont. BOA poet."][/caption]

Come join us for BOA's Holiday Gala celebration on Friday, December 3! We will be eating, drinking, and having a grand ole time watching Rochester's own FuturPointe Dance company's interpretation of "The City In Which I Love You" by Li-Young Lee. FuturPointe's performances are extremely creative and their members come from all over the world. The company is known for fusing various genres and training, mixing modern and folk dance to Caribbean, African, Latin, and ballet, as well as for its aesthetic collaborations with visual artists and musicians. But for our party, the group will be performing a dance exclusively choreographed to the title poem from...