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"McOmber's stories are tinged with the bizarre," says Jessica Brockmole. In the HNR Issue BOA's publicaton, This New and Poisononous Air by Adam McOmber, is reviewed by Brockmole. She commends the multilayered charcters within the collection's ten stories. McOmber has been linked to the grim and dark writtings of Poe and Dinesen. Although the comparisions have been made, the review emphasizes that the stories themselves are not dark, "beneath each runs a subtext that darkness resides in us all." The review can be read here. Adam McOmber is the author of This New and Poisonous Air, his debut collection of short stories. The Assistant Director of Creative Nonfiction at Columbia College...

Distinguished and delightful BOA poet Naomi Shihab Nye will be profiled tonight on PBS NewsHour! Check the NewsHour schedule for the viewing time in your area: NewsHour Local TV Listings. Among other topics, the show will highlight Naomi's most recent book, Transfer. Set your Tivos to record! [caption id="attachment_1569" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="BOA poet Naomi Shihab Nye"][/caption]

Do you like YouTube videos? Poetry, too? Want to see a video of Craig Morgan Teicher playing with cats? So do we!  Head over to the BOA Editions channel on YouTube for some newly added readings by Naomi Shihab Nye, Sean Thomas Dougherty, and Kazim Ali. No tumbling or botched back-flips, but these recitations will have you flipping over to the BOA Bookstore to read more from these fine poets. Any suggestions? Throw them up on our Facebook page! We'd love to hear from you.

To add to the list of reasons why we love New York City, the MTA has brought back its Poetry in Motion, an initiative to plaster lines of verse across the subway car walls. Alice Quinn, former New Yorker poetry editor and current executive director of the Poetry Society of America, sat down with the Poetry Foundation to discuss the project and its featured poets, including BOA pillar Lucille Clifton! For more information on Poetry in Motion and the Arts in Transit project, check out its page on the MTA website.

Ever wonder what went through an artist's head while you're viewing their work? The insights could be revelatory; they might confirm your hunches or completely turn your impressions for a loop. Either way, getting poets to talk about their craft and how they arrived at the final versions of their poems can be a noble, if not valuable enterprise as we encounter their work or polish off our own. To listen in on a truly compelling conversation about the making of a poem between two poets, check out Fleda Brown's interview on Brian Brodeur's blog How a Poem Happens. In...