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Celebrate National Poetry Month with BOA Editions
National Poetry Month is just a few days away, and the BOA Editions team can't wait to join in the celebration! This year, we are going all out in the festivities. What better way is there to honor the vital place of poetry in America than with a month-long jubilee? National Poetry Month Sale By popular demand, we are bringing back our National Poetry Month sale. All titles in the BOA Bookstore will be on sale during the entire month of April. Use promo code BOAPOETRY18 at checkout to save 40% on your order! Poetry Moments with WXXI BOA Editions is excited to...
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City of Rochester to Proclaim April 20th as “BOA Editions Day”
The City of Rochester is honoring BOA Editions, Ltd.—one of the nation’s leading independent publishers of poetry and literary fiction—by proclaiming April 20, 2018 as “BOA Editions Day.” The mayoral proclamation will be issued during a poetry celebration at the City Hall Atrium featuring a reading by award-winning poet Chen Chen. The celebration, which takes place during National Poetry Month, will be held on April 20th at 6:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public. BOA Publisher Peter Conners says: “Having Mayor Warren proclaim BOA Editions Day is such wonderful recognition of our contributions to Rochester’s cultural...
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WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES a finalist for the Thom Gunn Prize for Gay Poetry
The acclaim keeps rolling in for Chen Chen's debut collection! The Publishing Triangle announced earlier this month that When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities was selected as a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. The Thom Gunn Award honors Thom Gunn (1929-2004), who was the author of The Man with Night Sweats (1992) and many other acclaimed volumes. Gunn, who was born in Kent, England, lived in San Francisco from 1960 until his death. The award was previously known as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry and was renamed to honor Mr. Gunn...
Reginald Gibbons story included in Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology
WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award
We are thrilled to announce that Chen Chen's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities has been selected as a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. “Celebrating our 30th year of Lambda Literary Award finalists is to recognize that this organization has been at the center of contemporary queer literature for decades,” said Lambda Literary Executive Director Tony Valenzuela. “This year is no different with another stellar list of authors demonstrating through their work that LGBTQ books tell richly textured stories about who we are in all our incredible diversity.” Chen Chen's When...