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April is National Poetry Month! BOA Editions is celebrating this year's National Poetry Month with Barnes & Noble. On April 18, 2015, a percentage of all Barnes & Noble purchases will help support BOA Editions! Simply present THIS VOUCHER upon checkout at any Barnes & Noble store that day. Everything in the stores -- from your cafe beverage to the books on your spring/summer reading list -- is included! Help support BOA from your own local store, no matter where you live! (Note: If you visit the Pittsford, NY, location, simply mention that you are supporting BOA at checkout --...

Erika Meitner's poetry collection Copia has been in the recent spotlight! According to a Scout Poetry review of the collection, "Erika Meitner creates a tenuous balance, simultaneously reaching into the unknowable future and the immutable past. The reader feels this tense equilibrium immediately as the opening poems address bygone and potential lovers while acknowledging the speaker’s immediate and contented suburban domestic life. . . . Copia, as its title suggests, provides abundance. Rather than filter and parse, it holds nothing in reserve and asks for an equal measure of openness from its reader, inviting participation and, perhaps, action." In an interview...

John Gallaher's In a Landscape is featured in Common Good Book's new electronic newsletter! According to CGB, Gallaher's new book "is more than aware of its artifice, and thus, its voice. Like Whitman, Gallaher celebrates his vast incomprehension of the material world, no matter how big or how small, from Bob the Builder to John Cage, even as he ambulates to map the mind's terrain, unsure if the two remain as visibly distinct as traffic lights or stars in space. . . . Each line like a rake here is unruly in its combing of a private logic and errant trajectory, as...

Robin McLean, past winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize for her collection Reptile House, also won The Carolina Quarterly's "End is Nigh" contest for "Cold Snap," one of the stories in the new collection. In an insightful interview with Aisha Anwar, the author discusses the winning piece: "The story is about isolation," says McLean, "both physical and emotional." The story follows protagonist Lilibeth, who endures an "end-of-the-world" winter storm while managing the small problems of everyday life, and working toward the goal of self-improvement. "Isn’t this how things are?," says McLean. "The world is melting. We are bombing strangers with...

BOA is excited to be participating again this year at the AWP Conference and Bookfair in Minneapolis! This year, BOA will be at bookfair tables 830 and 832. Stop by, say hello to BOA staff and authors, and browse our wide selection of exceptional and essential books, including our newest Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 titles! BOA authors will be setting up at the BOA tables (830 and 832) to sign copies of their new Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 titles. Take this schedule with you to the Bookfair to meet BOA authors and have your favorite BOA books signed!...