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NEA Supports BOA & Our Authors

We are thrilled to announce that no fewer than 4 BOA authors have been awarded 2011 NEA Poetry Fellowships! Those authors are: Richard Foerster Aracelis Girmay Christopher Kennedy Cecilia Woloch Congratulations to our authors and all the other poets who received fellowships. The complete list is available here: 2011 NEA Poetry Fellowships BOA has also received a $30,000 NEA Access to Artistic Excellence award to support the production, publication, and related expenses for new volumes of poetry and short fiction. Scheduled authors include Naomi Shihab Nye, G. C. Waldrep, John Gallaher, Christopher Kennedy, Michael Waters, Janice N. Harrington, Ira Sadoff, and Adam...

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Sharp Stars Receives Poets Prize Nomination

Congratulations to BOA poet Sharon Bryan for having her collection Sharp Stars nominated for the distinguished Poet's Prize. The Poet's Prize is awarded by a panel of fellow poets in honor of the "best book of poems published in 2009." This isn't the first award recognition for Sharp Stars either. The book was given the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2009. The Gardner Award is given biennially to a poet in mid-career whose manuscript is of exceptional merit.  Adam Zagajewski says of the book: "Sharon Bryan is a poet who contemplates radical questions and situations.  Her beautiful astonishment vis-a-vis the universe knows...

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Poem Told in the Time of a Falling Leaf

In this longer clip, Sean Thomas Dougherty gracefully reads a poem full of fall colors, while the ABC quartet plays low, autumnal tones behind him. [Click here to watch video. . .]

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Interview with Anne Germanacos

BOA poet, Anne Germanacos talks with Michael Krasny from KQED radio on the Forum. They discuss many things literary including her latest collection In The Time Of Girls. Her work has appeared in over 60 literary reviews and anthologies. Germanacos shares stories about her time studying in Greece , where she eventually met her husband. She reads a story out of the new book titled "Twenty-nine Stones for You to Hold" and "Until We Go To Sleep."  Michael Krasny is extremely taken by the prose, calling it musical and poetic in nature; it is human: filled with pain, frustration and...

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Embraceable You (Parts 1 and 2)

Sean Thomas Dougherty reads a poem inspired by and named after the old jazz standard, "Embraceable You," [click here to view video] from his book Broken Hallelujahs published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2007. The ABC Quartet follows the reading with a beautiful, instrumental version of the song. [Click here to watch the band play. . .]

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