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This Valentine's Day, the Academy of American Poets asked Jillian Weise to make a valentine for the poet of her choice. According to her handmade note, which is featured on the Academy's website, cupid struck Thomas Wyatt, and the two plan to meet at BOA's bookfair tables P30 and P31 during AWP 2014. We look forward to seeing that. Weise, the 2013 James Laughlin Award winner for The Book of Goodbyes, will be one of BOA's authors signing copies at the AWP bookfair. Stop by our tables on Friday, February 28, from 2-3pm to meet the poet and get your copies...

AWP is less than two weeks away! BOA is thrilled to be participating in this year's AWP Conference and Bookfair, in Seattle, from February 26 to March 1. This year, BOA will be at bookfair tables P30 and P31. Stop by, say hello to BOA staff and authors, and browse our vast selection of exceptional and essential books, including our newest Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 titles! Books Signings Galore  BOA authors will be stopping by and setting up at the BOA tables (P30, P31) to sign copies of their books, including new Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 titles. Take this...

According to DIAGRAM, Aurelie Sheehan's new collection Jewelry Box is "supercharged, as brilliant as rare metals mined from base earth." "It's worth unpacking how apt the title Jewelry Box is for this collection of histories (fragments, memories, stories, moments). The experience of reading these is akin to that of opening a jewelry box, exploring what's inside it..." The 58 short works in this collection (some only a paragraph, others a few pages) straddle memoir and fiction, exploring the nuances of sexuality, motherhood, love, and ambition. Like Lydia Davis, Sheehan's stories are potent miniatures that blossom out from seemingly insignificant encounters...

In an interview with Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, Craig Morgan Teicher discusses his two most recent publications, Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, Fall 2014) and To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, Fall 2012). Teicher is known for his intimately confessional poetry, which, according to Publishers Weekly, "risks most everything poetry can risk." Check out these excerpts we found particularly interesting: CWB: I have found your poetry to be constantly engaging in a variety of forms and yet, at the same time, taking up the feasibility of language as an effective device for communication as a continual theme. I might argue that...

By Jenna Fisher, Director of Marketing and Production Ah, February—the month of love, heart-shaped sugar, and even anti-mush cynicism. There's no doubt—whether with bright words of love, or furious words of heartbreak—poetry and Valentine's Day go naturally hand-in-hand. Celebrate the way you want to with our Valentine's Day Book Guide. Keep these titles near, whether you're rejoicing—or enduring—February 14. And for all you Valentine's Day lovers and Anti-Valentine's Day cynics, we give you the gift of FREE SHIPPING on any BOA Bookstore order through February 24! Because BOA loves you. 1. For the jaded heart that's lost its way. The...