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Dark Things by Novica Tadic, translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic, has been shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award in Poetry from the translation website Three Percent. Three Percent was "launched in the summer of 2007 with the lofty goal of becoming a destination for readers, editors, and translators interested in finding out about modern and contemporary international literature." The site has quickly become a clearinghouse of information on translations by U.S. publishers, and we are thrilled to be one of the ten finalists for the BTBA in Poetry. The winner will be announced on March 10, 2010....

[caption id="attachment_515" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Lucille Clifton accepting the 2000 National Book Award (AP Photo)"][/caption] Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Intricacies of Black Lives, Dies at 73 Lucille Clifton, a distinguished American poet whose work trained lenses wide and narrow on the experience of being black and female in the 20th century, exploring vast subjects like the indignities of history and intimate ones like the indignities of the body, died on Saturday in Baltimore. She was 73 and lived in Columbia, Md. The precise cause of death had not been determined, her sister, Elaine Philip, told The Associated Press on Sunday....

National Book Award-winning Poet Lucille Clifton Dies Rochester, NY — BOA Editions is sad to mark the passing of poet Lucille Clifton on February 13, 2010. Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles) was raised in Depew, New York. She attended Howard University from 1953 to 1955 and graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1955. In 1958 she married Fred James Clifton. She worked as a claims clerk in the New York State Division of Employment, Buffalo (1958–1960), and as literature assistant in the Office of Education in Washington, D.C. (1960–1971). Her first poetry collection Good...

The Board of Directors, staff and poets of BOA Editions, Ltd. are greatly saddened to report the death of longtime BOA poet Lucille Clifton. Lucille passed away Saturday morning February 13 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at age 73. Lucille had been ill for quite some time, but the exact cause of her death is still uncertain. Lucille was one of the great voices in world poetry, and a wonderful human being. We will miss her tremendously. The BOA Editions family sends our condolences to her sister, three daughters, son, and three grandchildren. A list of Lucille’s BOA poetry...

[caption id="attachment_466" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Cupid and Psyche by Antonio Canova."][/caption] Our final installment for Valentine's Week is the title poem from Cecilia Woloch's Carpathia. This is also the last day to receive our special Valentine's Day offer: buy a copy of Carpathia for only $10 (shipping included)! To get this deal, just call 585-546-3410 (ext 13), and ask for Peter. Here's what Cecilia said about her poem Carpathia: "For me, it speaks of how we move forward and backward in time, in love, into the past and the future, simultaneously, how we just keep going on, and also returning..." Carpathia...