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[caption id="attachment_998" align="aligncenter" width="157" caption="BOA poet Ales Steger. Photo by Joze Suhadolnik."][/caption] Guernica's poetry editor Erica Wright reviews The Book of Things and reveals that she's been "impatiently waiting for this collection" since January of last year!  Here's an excerpt from the review: "Henry has brought these poems to life for those of us not lucky enough to read Slovenian. Some of Henry’s translations are impressive for sheer acrobatics. “Mint” begins with the line “Mintafiction, minthane, mintabolism,” and the work of the translator can be both seen and appreciated. The translation continues with “There the smell of mint grows out of...

[caption id="attachment_957" align="aligncenter" width="227" caption="Anne Germanacos. BOA fiction author."][/caption] This link takes you to a beautifully clear video of Anne Germanacos reading from her new story collection, In the Time of the Girls. The reading took place on October 5th, 2010 at the Simon Pearce Gallery in Quechee, Vermont. You do have to download the video to watch it, but I highly recommend doing it. There are so many grainy, poor sounding author readings online - it's a treat to watch one with real production value and the fiction is, of course, knock out. (BTW, all you profs and teachers,...

Eight new poetry reviews appear in this week's Publishers Weekly including one for BOA's newest Lannan Translations Series selection: The Book of Things poems by Ales Steger, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry. "The prolific poet Henry renders Steger's long lines in an unfailingly fluent American English.Steger's efforts sometimes bring to mind such Western European figures as Francis Ponge and Craig Raine, who also sought to make household things look new and strange. Yet Steger brings a melancholy Central European sense of history--his objects tend to remember, or cause, great pain." Read the complete review here [PW on The Book of...

[caption id="attachment_1020" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="A. Poulin, Jr. BOA Founder."][/caption] For all you poets out there, just a reminder that the annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Contest is in full swing! The prize honors a poet’s first collection, while honoring the late founder of BOA Editions, a not-for-profit publishing house of poetry and other literature right here in Rochester, so send us your work! Each year the Poulin Prize winner is selected by a prestigious judge from a highly competitive pool of contestants. BOA will publish the winning manuscript for 2010 as part of the New Poets of America Series. This...

Thanks to everyone who came out last Saturday to make Dine & Rhyme a huge success! Over the next week or two we'll post pictures from the reading, the reception, and all the surrounding hooplah. For now, we want to share some pics from a portion of the Dine & Rhyme that most people didn't get to see. As part of this year's event, we partnered with Nazareth College and the Rochester Literacy Movement to offer writing workshops to underserved area youths. Accompanied by their Rochester Literacy Movement mentors, the kids came to Nazareth where they participated in small group...