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[caption id="attachment_938" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Painter Steve Smock with BOA Editor Peter Conners and BOA Development Director Melissa Hall"][/caption] Q: What's more fun than watching an artist create a painting in two hours flat? A: Watching it speeded-up to forty seconds flat with time lapse video! Click the below link to check out Steve Smock painting during BOA's "Poetry Is Jazz" event on June 15, 2010. This painting will be auctioned off at BOA's annual Dine & Rhyme celebration on October 16th, 2010. It is signed by the artist and also inscribed with "BOA" and the date it was created. [Smock...

"Poetry Is Jazz" was held on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 during the Rochester International Jazz Festival. BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty read from his book Broken Hallelujahs and the forthcoming Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line. The ABC Band (Mark Kellogg, Jim Doser, Chris Azzara, and Geoff Saunders) played along with h...im and also on their own. Artist Steve Smock created a painting during the event - the painting will be auctioned off at our Dine & Rhyme celebration on October 16.   Here are a few pictures from the event. A complete photo album is posted on BOA's...

Beautiful in the Mouth. BOA, dist. by Consortium. 2010. c.96p. ISBN 978-1-934414-33-0. pap. $16. POETRY [caption id="attachment_847" align="alignleft" width="167" caption="Keetje Kuipers' "Beautiful in the Mouth""][/caption] Kuipers, Keetje.   In her debut collection, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Kuipers untangles the interwoven discourse between life’s richness and barrenness, its fullness and hollowness. Daily experiences fuel her poems, providing lavish, sensual images rife with exuberant details. Though the concise language sometimes becomes sentimental—“no one/ was coming to give me what I/ needed, but I lay down and waited/ anyway”—the poet ultimately turns what seems to be a standard prose...

The day is finally here! Tonight at 6pm is BOA's "Poetry is Jazz" event at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center located at 137 East Avenue, Rochester, NY. Hear:  BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty read with musicians Mark Kellogg, Jim Doser, Chris Azzara, and Geoff Saunders! Watch:  Rochester Artist Steve Smock create an original piece of art! Schmooze:  With old friends and make some new ones! Enjoy:  The Rochester Contemporary Art Center's 6 x 6 exhibit! To wet your whistle, here's some shots from the rehearsal last night. It sounded tight! [gallery]

Everyone here at BOA is excited and gearing up for the big "Poetry Is Jazz" event tomorrow night! Here's a little information on the musicians who will be playing while BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty spins his poetic web: MARK KELLOGG is the Principal Trombonist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music. A versatile performer interested in many musical genres, Mark has released a solo jazz CD  (“Upstate Standards”) and has been a featured performer at low brass symposia across the United States and Asia. JIM DOSER is the Director of Music...