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A NewPages review of Craig Morgan Teicher's The Trembling Answers is calling the book "art that transcends the political and economic stirrings of our day."Reviewer Kimberly Ann Priest says, "While most of the nation is wrangling over politics, some poets, like Craig Morgan Teicher, are reminding us of our human fragility in this pandemonium of voices. Poets like Teicher are forced by circumstance to cultivate a stillness of spirit for fear of inhaling or exhaling too carelessly and thereby breaking the already frayed cord of life struggling to hold itself together—that frayed cord being the speaker’s son so consciously observed...

Chen Chen's A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize-winning collection When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities is on Boston Review's newly released list of "Summer Poetry Reading."In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one’s own path in identity, life, and love.According to Calista McRae, "This rangy book makes room for the...

We are very sorry to announce that Jenna Fisher, our Director of Marketing, will be stepping down from her position at BOA at the end of June. Jenna has been an invaluable member of the BOA team for more than five years, and we will miss her greatly as she moves on to serve non-profits and small businesses full-time with her burgeoning content marketing business, High Street Marketing Company.Jenna’s marketing responsibilities will be redistributed and absorbed by two of our other valuable BOA staff members, who will expand their roles. We are confident that BOA’s work will continue at the highest...

BOA is proud to collaborate with Deborah Ronnen Fine Art for MINIMAL MOSTLY, a pop-up art exhibit taking place in Rochester, NY, now through June 30, 2017.Featuring numerous special events throughout the exhibit period, including a BOA collaboration event called "Minimalism in Poetry and Music," MINIMAL MOSTLY brings to Rochester work by world-renowned artists, including Josef Albers, Carmen Herrera, Ellsworth Kelly​, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, and Frank Stella.These "Masters of Minimal" are artists who developed and formalized the concepts of minimal art. Featuring objects in a variety of media – painting, print, sculpture, ​and photo-based work, the exhibit will examine the stylistic varieties within Minimalism...

With the 17th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize just around the corner, we are thrilled to announce that renowned poet D. A. Powell will judge this year’s contest. BOA will accept first-book poetry manuscripts for the prize from August 1 - November 30, 2017.D. A. Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, Or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Powell’s most recent book is Repast: Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt.Writing for the New York Times,...