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Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of Rail (BOA, 2018). He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and his work has appeared in Narrative, Best New Poets, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, and The Missouri Review, which awarded him the 2013 Editor’s Prize. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his co-directed poetry film, Riding the Highline, received jury awards at the 2015 Napa Valley Film Festival and the 2016 Arizona International Film Festival. With his brother Anders, he has co-authored two chapbooks, Mercy Songs (Diode Editions) and Two-Headed Boy (Organic Weapon Arts), winner of the 2015 Blair Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.  For more information about Kai Carlson-Wee, visit kaicarlsonwee.com.

Books by Kai Carlson-Wee

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Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton (1936 - 2010) was an award winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children’s books. Her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats: New…

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Welcome Spring Book Bundlers! With this one-time purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's spring season. This Spring Book Bundle…

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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Gratitude to Old Teachers

Available in limited quantity Gratitude to Old Teachers, poems by Robert Bly, with a frontispiece by Robert Marx, was issued in a limited edition of…

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The Committee of Men

James Ciano’s debut collection, The Committee of Men, explores the cycles of violence men inflict on one another and themselves, examining how silence, shame,…

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Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

Signed copies available in limited quantities The interviews with major award-winning poet Li-Young Lee in Breaking the Alabaster Jar offer access to the poet's…

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American Children

In his fifth full-length collection, Jim Simmerman creates an elegy-in-verse with technical mastery, wit, and passion. American Children's thematic pillars are bridged by three…

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Day Has No Equal But Night

Day Has No Equal But Night was at its time of printing the first book of new poems in 20 years by the most renowned…

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Miracle Maker: The selected poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi

"In the current disgrace, amid the din of corporate trolls contending with medieval ogres, of course, the good poet opts for the Fairy Tale.…

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