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Greetings! Every week throughout the summer, BOA's staff and interns will share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Rail by Kai Carlson-Wee. Listen to a recording of this week's poem on SoundCloud. Pike Somewhere in her heart she remembers the sound of lake water hitting the boat. The low back-and-forth of buoyed weight working to hold up the bodies inside. Her father removing a worm from the loose earth, threading the wet pink flesh with a hook. Dirt on his fingers. The long, bleeding body in agony, curling to feel its way up...

Annual fundraiser gala will feature poetry, film, a live auction, and a conversation with the author. BOA Editions invites you to ride the rails at this year’s Dine & Rhyme on Friday, September 28th, at the Rochester Academy of Medicine. This event celebrating poetry, film, and the art of the journey will feature poetry readings and a film screening by Kai Carlson-Wee, author of Rail (BOA Editions, 2018) and director of the award-winning documentary short film Riding the Highline. Tickets are $65 in advance ($75 at the door). Kai Carlson-Wee is a poet, photographer, and filmmaker who began riding freight...

BOA Editions is thrilled to announce that Jeanne Foster and Alan Williamson’s translation of The Living Theatre by Bianca Tarozzi has won the 2018 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. This award recognizes the top work by a northern California translator published in 2017. The Northern California Book Award was started in 1981 by the Northern California Book Reviewers, to honor northern California writers and to draw attention to exceptional services in the field of literature. It recognizes works in Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Translation, and Children’s Literature. Winners were announced at the 37th Annual Northern California Book Awards ceremony...

Greetings! Every week throughout the summer, BOA's staff and interns will share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Diwata by Barbara Jane Reyes. Garden This is the story I was told: she doesn’t remember when the yellow housewas new, when the backyard, formerly a farmer’s plot, was a mess of thornsand weeds. She doesn’t remember when the fi rst rains fell in autumn, whenthe weeds grew a grown-up’s waist high. She doesn’t remember how the soilwas so rich, how the worms were so juicy, wriggling, and fat. She doesn’tremember how the...

June is Pride Month, and BOA Editions is proud to celebrate the many diverse voices of the LGBT community! Here are six poetry collections plus one short story collection by some of our favorite gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer authors. Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers In her prize-winning debut collection, queer poet Keetje Kuipers blends eroticism, longing, memory, and the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains into a sensual, unforgettable landscape. Kuipers' poems are inhabited by the echoes of those she has loved: their presence read in tea leaves, found under the stairwells of Brooklyn brownstones, reconstructed in verse as though molded from clay. When...