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Are you a fan of short fiction? How does having free top-notch short stories from award-winning independent publishers available on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad every week sound?! The Bookslinger app (Consortium) delivers new (free) stories to your device every Friday at noon Eastern time, exposing you to some of the best new voices in contemporary short fiction. The app itself is free - no cost, no subscriptions, and no registration - just an easy way to get more access to emerging and underappreciated voices in the literary world! Going live this Friday on Bookslinger is Adam McOmber's story "The...

With copies of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 finally reaching the world's doorsteps every day, people are finding good reason to celebrate. How? By sharing pictures of their glowing faces beside the breathtaking volume! Check out some of the photos below, shared by Publisher Peter Conners, BOA staff Melissa Hall and Jenna Fuller, author and journalist Daniel Nester, and author Aimee Nezhukumatathil - and share with us your own picture beside the book on Facebook or Twitter! https://twitter.com/boaeditions/status/233571966802620416/photo/1 http://danielnester.com/2012/08/17/heres-me-posing-with-the-collected-poems-of-lucille-clifton-which-i-got-in-the-mail-today/ https://twitter.com/aimeenez/status/235466756091686912/photo/1

In their Summer 2012 newsletter, NeMLA (the Northeast Modern Language Association) made BOA the visual highlight of their recent 2012 Rochester Convention! Check out some candid shots of BOA poets and staff at the convention below: Clockwise from left: Keetje Kuipers, author of Beautiful in the Mouth, which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize; BOA Publisher Peter Conners; BOA Poets (first row starting from left) Christoper Kennedy, Keetje Kuipers, and Michael Waters together at the 2012 Convention. The next NeMLA conference will be held September 30 at the Boston Hyatt, sponsored by Tufts University.

In a recent review, Zenith City Weekly examined Barton Sutter's latest, The Reindeer Camps (BOA 2012), citing Sutter's rhythm-driven narrative style and quasi-autobiographical episodes that make his poetry so unique. The reviewer writes, "My favorites constitute slivers of memory, although ultimately whether they are autobiographical or creative inventions hardly matters to their validity or value." Regarding Sutter's "account" of reindeer herding in Siberia, the reviewer continues, "the details make the poems real, which is more important than merely being true." Sutter's collection is a thought-provoking reconsideration of life's complexity, and more importantly, simplicity. Read more about this new work at...

Every fall, poets and readers alike gather in New York City for the Poets Forum, a three-day celebration of poetry hosted by the American Academy of Poets. This year, the 6th annual Poets Forum will take place October 18-20 on the campuses of New York University and The New School, and will feature over 30 major American poets, including BOA poets Naomi Shihab Nye and Craig Morgan Teicher! Forum events include a Chancellor's reading by the Academy's fifteen Chancellors (including Nye), a series of discussion panels with major poets on topics and issues in contemporary poetry, guided walking tours revisiting...