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Rochester, NY—National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $25 million in grants as part of the NEA’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018.  Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $10,000 to BOA Editions, Ltd. to support the publication and promotion of poetry and short fiction collections. The Art Works category is the NEA’s largest funding category and supports projects that focus on the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and/or the strengthening of...

Craig Morgan Teicher's The Trembling Answers, Chen Chen's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Christian Barter's Bye-Bye Land, and Christine Kitano's Sky Country all made The Brooklyn Rail's list of the Best Books of 2017. Brooklyn Rail Books Editor Joseph Salvatore (author of To Assume a Pleasing Shape, BOA Editions, 2011) introduced his top 25 list of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction books by describing how the stories we tell ourselves sustain and define us during times of turmoil and change, noting that: "Of all the story forms the most political is literature. For it travels in the stealthiest of...

We are thrilled to announce that Chen Chen is the winner of the of the 2018 Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award in Poetry for his Poulin Prize-winning collection When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017). The GLCA judges praised Chen's work, stating: “A mix of clever poetic premises and life’s abiding promise, Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities is a debut collection that cannot be ignored. This collection is by turns comic, dark, self-obsessed, playful, and restless. The poems move into...

Happy New Year! Every week, the BOA staff shares one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. The BOA team is excited to continue our Poem of the Week series with an ars poetica from the Isabella Gardner Award-winning collection Sharp Stars by Sharon Bryan. Poetry It's like tuning slowly around our Zenith radio's glowing shortwave dial as I did as a child, listening for the voices from Madagascar, Fiji, the Canary Islands, I could spend hours like this, eyes closed, ear pressed to the speakers to catch snatches of language between high-pitched squeals and long patches of static, and...

Merry Christmas, readers! Every week, the BOA staff shares one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. Our gift to you this week is a special poem from Rare Earths by Deena Linett, which was reprinted in Angels of Poetry (2006): a limited run anthology celebrating BOA's 30th anniversary featuring commentary from some of BOA's most beloved poets from our first 30 years. We hope you enjoy this special look at one of our cherished memories.Thank you for all your support, for your comments, and for your readership this past year. We are excited to bring you new collections of...