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Bill Murray reads Lucille Clifton poem on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Legendary actor and comedian Bill Murray kicked off National Poetry Month by reading and discussing Lucille Clifton's poetry on Jimmy Kimmel Live!Regarding the recent feature in O, The Oprah Magazine, in which Bill Murray excerpts some of his favorite poems, Jimmy Kimmel says: "I have to say, poetry is not something that I ever read, but when I read these excerpts that you came up with, they all seemed great to me. This one in particular is great: 'What the Mirror Said.'"Nodding in agreement, Murray says of Lucille Clifton: "Her stuff's unbelievable. It's just incredible and I didn't know it...
PBS Newshour interviews Chen Chen
Poet Chen Chen. Photo by Jeff Gilbert.Chen Chen, the 15th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize winner, recently spoke to PBS Newshour about his identity and what it means to be Chinese, American, and gay. Chen focuses much of his poetry on how we form our identities.Chen says, “I felt like I couldn’t be Chinese and American and gay all at the same time. I felt like the world I was in was telling me that these had to be very separate things. Poems were a way for those different experiences to come together, for them to be in the...
D&C features BOA Editions on front page
Many thanks to Jeff Spevak and the Democrat & Chronicle for this front page feature on BOA's 40th anniversary!BOA Celebrates 40 Years of Fine PrintDemocrat & Chronicle | March 27, 2016A lot of rough water has passed under the bridge in the years since Al Poulin published the follow-up book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet that no one else wanted to touch, because its characters were speaking from the point of view of Nazis and German soldiers. BOA Editions’ first book, The Fuehrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress. Working out of the basement of his Brockport home, those early...
Announcement: Chen Chen wins Poulin Poetry Prize
We are thrilled to announce that Chen Chen is the winner of the fifteenth annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for his collection When I Grow up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities. The collection was selected by highly-acclaimed poet Jericho Brown. Chen will receive a $1,500 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in spring 2017.Of the winning collection, Brown says, “Chen Chen refuses to be boxed in or nailed down. He is a poet of Whitman’s multitudes and of Langston Hughes’ blues, of Dickinson’s ‘so cold no fire can warm me’ and of Michael...
Plume calls ANTIDOTE FOR NIGHT 'adventurous'
Plume Poetry just published a rave new review of Marsha de la O's Antidote for Night, in an installment that "celebrates National Poetry Month by examining four unsung collections from 2015."Reveiws editor Adam Tavel calls the book a "sweeping inventory of the ecological and political complexity of Southern California," and an "adventurous, rangy collection that probes place-based poetics as well as the elemental power of family."Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2015, Antidote for Night resists mere regionalism, however. . . . Like Gary Soto and Philip Levine, de la O has that rare gift to write poems...