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The reading continues [click here to view video]. . . Sean Thomas Dougherty shares another selection from Broken Hallelujahs during BOA Editions, Ltd. "Poetry is Jazz" event at RoCo.

Please check out the second chapter [Please click here to view video] from our "Poetry is Jazz" event at RoCo last June. In this installment BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty reads a poem from his book Broken Hallelujahs over a time-lapse video of artist Steve Smock creating an improvisatory painting.

[caption id="attachment_1111" align="aligncenter" width="203" caption="White Hand Society by BOA's Publisher Peter Conners"][/caption] Peter Conners is not only BOA's Publisher, but he's also an author in his own right! His latest book, White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg, weaves a fascinating and entertaining tale of the life, times and friendship of these two larger-than-life counterculture figures and the incredible impact their relationship had on America. The book was released this week by the legendary indepedent City Lights Books and is just reaching a bookstore near you! In celebration of the publication of White Hand Society, BOA has arranged...

If you search for "BOA Editions" on YouTube you'll come across all sorts of cool videos of our authors reading at different venues. But now BOA has our very own YouTube Channel - and we're about to start packing it with some high quality literary viewing! Our first offering is from BOA's "Poetry is Jazz" event, held at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center on June 16th 2010, featuring BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty and the ABC quartet. This video (I really want to call it a documentary because it's certainly more than just a straightforward videotaping) was done by Icon Creative. We give...

While everyone laments the decline of print review outlets (us included... especially newspapers!) Gently Read Literature has stepped up to the plate and delivered a monthly feast of in-depth reviews of poetry and fiction. I emphasize "in-depth" because these are no one paragraph blurb reviews. GRL consistently delivers thoughtful analysis and reviews carrying the weight their subjects (the books) demand. In their current issue, poet and critic Kurt Brown reviews Dark Things (BOA, 2009) poems by Novica Tadic, translated from the Serbian with an Introduction by Charles Simic.    Here's a little taste of how Brown views Tadic's poetry: "Tadic’s poems arise from a child-like pleasure in the grotesque,...