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Rain Taxi Reviews "Apostle of Desire"
Walter Holland reviewed Bruce Weigl's Apostle of Desire for the newest issue of Rain Taxi! The issue is available for purchase on their website. "This is poetry smoldering with emotion, still haunted by a war so many years ago, but in a mind that has been able to balance beauty and sensual detail onto the page, even as the poet’s heart is ever ambushed by the brutality of the past." --Walter Holland, Rain Taxi Review of Books
Publishers Weekly Interviews Peter Conners
"When you’re holding a Boa book, just know that out of 1,000-plus submissions in any given year, that book was one of the 12." Publishers Weekly interviewed Boa Editions Executive Director and Publisher Peter Conners in a January 2nd article. He shares the importance of independent, small presses amidst funding cuts and what's next for Boa. Read the full article here!
"It's about survival."
"When poetry publisher Boa Editions lost a $35,000 grant from the NEA, it also lost its single largest source of funding. The money had been designated to support work from several authors; in practical terms, it also meant that Boa — which publishes about a dozen books per year — would not offer hardcover editions or audiobooks for certain titles." Read the rest of the article from CITY Magazine here!
James R. Gapinski’s “The Museum of Future Mistakes” is Both Familiar and Strange
The Museum of Future Mistakes is a speculative fiction grab bag bursting with whimsy and pragmatic cynicism. Gapinski wields anthropomorphic interlopers and bizarre circumstances in order to craft an intensely human set of stories.
Lynne Thompson on the TODAY show with Maria Shriver
Lynne Thompson on reinventing yourself and finding ways to feed your soul.