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Douglas Watson, the first-ever winner of BOA's annual Short Fiction Contest, recently had his short-short story "Life on the Moon" chosen by Wigleaf as one of the best of 2012! Each summer, Wigleaf chooses 50 outstanding short fictions -- uniquely all under 1,000 words -- for its "Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of the Year" list. As excitement builds for the spring 2013 release of Watson's BOA fiction collection, The Era of Not Quite, we couldn't be more thrilled for Watson and the spreading of his words into the world! Here is the brilliant (very) short story, from Tin...

Please join us in welcoming Jenna Fuller to BOA Editions! Jenna recently graduated from Roberts Wesleyan College with degrees in English and Communication. She is originally from the Adirondacks in Upstate New York (lived next to a ski mountain but has never been skiing), and now lives in Rochester where she will be getting married this October. She likes to write short fiction and memoir in her spare time, but is even more committed to getting involved with and spreading the conversations of other authors. She also loves coffee, gardening, and her lunatic cat, Stuart. Jenna’s official title is Director...

The extensive collection, Your Father on The Train of Ghosts, evolved when two outstanding poets e-mailed one another for the period of a year. John Pursley III reviews this collection written by both G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher in Diagram (12.2). Pursley explains the differences between Waldrep's and Gallaher's poetry and background. What is more interesting is that Pursley believes the poets lose their individual voices, and yet another distinct voice is created "which operates like the ghosts suggested by the title." Pursley also says, "Many of the best poems in this collection slip effortlessly from moments of childlike inquisitiveness...

We're thrilled to have four BOA titles noted in Library Journal's May-Sept Poetry Round-Up! The Reindeer Camps (9781934414842) “Barton Sutter uses mostly formal structure and quietly unadorned language to chronicle village life on the Canadian border and the culture of ancient Siberian reindeer herders in The Reindeer Camps” To Keep Love Blurry (9781934414934) “Craig Morgan Teicher, a Colorado Prize for Poetry winner offers clear-eyed, blazing verse as he tracks a path from son (who lost a mother young) to husband and father in To Keep Love Blurry.” The Folding Star: And Other Poems (9781934414880) “Polish poet Jacek Gutorow’s bilingual translated...

BOA publisher Peter Conners was in for a very pleasant surprise this morning when he hopped into a New York City taxicab and was greeted by a familiar sight. The poem "Noche de Lluvia, San Salvador" by  Aracelis Girmay from her latest collection Kingdom Animalia (BOA 2011), appeared on Taxi TV  as he was being whisked from JFK to his sales conference downtown. How cool is that? Girmay's poem, along with the poem "Graduation" by Dorothea Tanning, is being used for the re-launch of the Poetry Society of America and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Poetry in Motion program. Dormant for the past...