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Actions We Can Take to Preserve the NEA and NEH
As with all non-profit organizations, BOA depends upon grant funding and private donations to underwrite our work. The truth is that the cultural life of America—symphonies, dance companies, art galleries, arts-in-education programs, you name it—depends upon public funding for its very survival.If the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are cut, it would decimate the cultural life of America and spell the end for many non-profit organizations. It would also end the substantial revenue stream that cultural institutions bring to our cities and towns.On behalf of non-profit arts organizations across the country,...
BOA Editions at AWP 2017
BOA is proud to be a Literary Partner for AWP 2017 in Washington, DC, from February 8-11. Join us at the BOA Booth (#525) for author signings, special discounts on books, and the debut of our Spring 2017 titles! Be sure to mark your calendars using the detailed schedule below for BOA and author events. BOA AUTHOR SIGNINGS Thursday, February 9: Chen Chen: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.Craig Morgan Teicher: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Friday, February 10: Zach Powers: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Huda Fakhreddine: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.Kathryn Nuernberger: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Saturday, February 11: Christian Barter: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Janice N. Harrington: 1:00 p.m. –...
Words Without Borders: SEED IN SNOW guides readers to 'new vistas'
In a new review from Words Without Borders, reviewer Kate Prengel calls Knuts Skujenieks's Seed in Snow "simple and unique, personal and universal, using generous, open-hearted language to guide the reader to new vistas." Translated from the Latvian by Bitite Vinklers, this bilingual edition is the first US publication of the acclaimed poet."Skujenieks makes his own emotions so gigantic that even the trees and the sun itself share them. The pines themselves want to escape, the sun is saddened, and yet, because the landscape shares in the prisoners’ suffering, that suffering is made bearable. . . . Nature, fierce and simple, is always interwoven with...
Reading with Douglas Watson and more!
Join BOA for cocktails and a cross-genre reading on Thursday, January 26, as three brilliant, award-winning authors come to Rochester to read and discuss their new work. Held in collaboration with Writers & Books, the event will feature BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning author Douglas Watson, poet Michelle Y. Burke, and local fiction author Rachel Hall. This is sure to be a night that will enrich and inspire.This event is free and open to all.Thursday, January 26 | 6:00pm Nox Cocktail Lounge 302 North Goodman Street Rochester, New York Douglas Watson's debut collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, won the inaugural BOA Short Fiction Prize. He is also the author...
TROUBLE THE WATER a finalist for 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
We are thrilled to announce that Derrick Austin’s Trouble the Water has been selected as one of five finalists for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. The award, which includes a $10,000 prize, honors the "first poetry volume published the previous year by a poet of particular promise."According to Lori Anne Ferrell, director of the Tufts awards, "Poetry has the power to remind us of what is truly significant, worthy, and lasting in our culture. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards at CGU, and once again we honor the careers of talented...