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[caption id="attachment_1894" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Now available at the BOA Bookstore!"][/caption] Dave Wood, former vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle and a columnist for River Falls Journal, is calling Barton Sutter's The Reindeer Camps "a breath of fresh air in the poetry world." Citing Sutter's playful mastery of more traditional style, Wood chose Sutter's latest work as a representation of excellent poetry on a national scale. The first Poet Laureate of Duluth, Sutter has crafted what is in Wood's eyes, "a cornucopia of razzle-dazzle old fashioned word-smithery." Read the full review on the River Falls Journal website, and be sure...

Mark your calendars folks -- BOA's 15th annual Dine & Rhyme is less than two months away! For those of you unfamiliar with this fantastic event, Dine & Rhyme is BOA's annual fundraiser, consisting of a poetry reading and book signing by nationally recognized BOA poets followed by a reception, dinner, and silent auction. All proceeds from the event go toward the publication of BOA books. As an independent publisher, we rely on grant funding from public and private sources as well as individual contributions to make the publication of our wonderful books possible and to get them into the...

Tony Leuzzi, author of forthcoming Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words (to be released by BOA this November), is featured today on The Bakery Poetry blog. While Passwords Primeval is a collection of Leuzzi's astounding interviews with prominent American poets (rather than a book of his own poetry), we're thrilled that Leuzzi is being recognized, not only for his impressive knowledge of poetry, but for his style and creativity as a poet in his own right. Here is the featured poem: Cadae (2) Stones have ears to eat the exact time Arp thought      and jotted the stones have...

[caption id="attachment_1205" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Ennui Prophet, poems by Christopher Kennedy"][/caption] Christopher Kennedy's "The Fact Remains" has been selected as this week's Poem of the Week by The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre! The prose poem comes from his fourth poetry collection Ennui Prophet. "I’m heavier than some animals, lighter than others. Also, I’m more threatening than most animals, less threatening than a few; faster than some, slower than most. I don’t bite, though, unless provoked by desire. What I want to say is: I still measure distance in years. And swans mate for life. At least that’s what I believe. I...

Congratulations to Ira Sadoff for being chosen as today's Featured Poet on Poetry Daily! Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry that features outstanding works each day from new books, magazines, and journals. Featured are "the most eminent poets" as well as those lesser known. Each poem is selected for its "literary quality," to provide readers with a "window on a very broad range of poetry offered annually by publishers large and small." Two of Sadoff's poems, "Lament" and "Ex-Wives," both from his newly released collection True Faith, are today's features. Read them for yourself: Lament While I was...