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Rochester, NY— BOA Editions will publish Casual Conversation by Renia White as the next Blessing the Boats Selections title. Ms. White will receive a $5,000 honorarium, and her manuscript will be published in April 2022 as part of the New Poets of America Series. Casual Conversation marks the debut selection by inaugural Blessing the Boats Selections Editor-at-Large Aracelis Girmay.  Girmay said of the collection: “I have read Casual Conversation several times now, and still the encounter is new, charged. Renia White writes: ‘some people get to want and need / and be met in it. // some just the mouth, / just the teeth // some eat...

This evening we remember and honor Mirko, a talented Rochester artist and friend of BOA and its founder, A. Poulin, Jr. Mirko created and graciously donated BOA's logo of Orpheus with his lyre. He passed away on February 8th, 2021. Boo Poulin, BOA's Honorary Vice Chair recalls, "Mirko Pylyshenko taught printmaking in the art department at SUNY Brockport where he was joined by the very talented Robert Marx, Wendell Castle, Albert Paley, and Jack Wolsky to name a few. Mirko also held the position of chairman of the art department for 10 years and he served proudly and actively in...

Rochester, NY—BOA Editions, Ltd. has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the publication and promotion of new books of poetry in 2021. BOA’s project is among 1,073 projects across America totaling nearly $25 million that were selected during this first round of fiscal year 2021 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects funding category. “The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support this project from BOA Editions,” said Arts Endowment Acting Chairman Ann Eilers. “BOA Editions is among the arts organizations across the country that have demonstrated creativity, excellence, and resilience during...

BOA Editions is proud to announce that its Publisher Peter Conners has been promoted to the position of Executive Director. This title and its responsibilities will be added to his current job as Publisher making Conners’ official title, Publisher and Executive Director. Peter Conners has worked at BOA Editions since 2003. He began his career as Marketing Director and then became Associate Editor before being named Editor in 2008. In 2010, he was promoted to Publisher where, among other tasks, he has been responsible for providing the editorial vision for the press. As Publisher, books that Conners has selected for...

BOA is delighted to share the news that Jillian Weise has won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence. PEN Oakland announced the winners of the 2020 Josephine Miles Awards via a press release on October 22, 2020. The PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Awards, named for the late poet and Professor at The University of California at Berkeley, were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. Seven poets received Josephine Miles Awards in 2020. For more information about PEN Oakland and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Awards, visit the PEN Oakland...