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 As Black History Month comes to a close, this is your friendly reminder to read the work of Black authors year-round! Finish February or start March by snagging Sheila Carter-Jones' forthcoming collection, Every Hard Sweetness, recommended by BOA's fantastic spring 2024 intern, Jaenid Ayala!  --- In a time where we have become desensitized to Black voices & Black trauma, Every Hard Sweetness is a reminder that there are still stories left to tell, still narratives that have been forced to remain unfinished. Sheila Carter-Jones creatively composes a song which so many African American families have not had the chance to...

   Contact: Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Director of Development & Publicity BOA Editions, Ltd. 250 North Goodman Street, Suite 306, Rochester, NY 14607 bratt@boaeditions.org | 585.546.3410   Rochester, NY - BOA Editions, Ltd. has been approved for a $45,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the publication and promotion of seven new books of contemporary poetry. In total, the NEA will award 958 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling more than $27.1 million that were announced as part of its first round of fiscal year 2024 grants. “The NEA is delighted to announce this grant to BOA Editions, Ltd., which is helping contribute to...

Here at BOA Editions we are celebrating another successful year of poetry and short fiction! As we hit the ground running in 2024 and celebrate all it will bring, we’ve stopped to reflect on all the note-worthy titles released in 2023. We might be a little biased, but we think these twelve are pretty neat!  Read on and don’t forget to browse these titles in the BOA Bookstore! Four in Hand by Alicia Mountain (April 4, 2023) Emma Specter included Four in Hand on Vogue's "The Best New Poetry Collections to Read (Or Preorder) Now," saying of the collection: "The four-sonnet structure of this...

 Contact: Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, Director of Development & Publicity BOA Editions, Ltd. 250 North Goodman Street, Suite 306, Rochester, NY 14607 bratt@boaeditions.org | 585.546.3410   BOA Editions awarded $30,000 by the New York State Council on the Arts Rochester, NY – BOA Editions announced today a grant award totaling $30,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the nonprofit arts and culture sector. Through New York State’s continued investment in arts and culture, NYSCA has awarded over $80 million since Spring 2023 to over 1,500 artists and organizations across the state. Governor Kathy Hochul said, “Research confirms what we’ve always known here in...

 Joe Baumann’s is the author of three collections of short fiction, Sing With Me at the Edge of Paradise, The Plagues, and Hot Lips.  His fiction and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Passages North, Phantom Drift, and many others.  He possesses a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.  He was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. His debut novel, I Know You’re Out There Somewhere, is forthcoming from Deep Hearts YA.  He can be reached at joebaumann.wordpress.com.  In the following self-interview with Joe Baumann, learn more about the author's thoughts around queerness, inspiration, and new projects! Super Secret Identity Interviewer: If you had to...