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We wanted to give you a quick update on the status of the Poulin Prize. Our esteemed judge Cornelius Eady has selected a winner! However... we need to confirm that the poet he selected will accept the prize before we make a formal announcement. We have a call in to that person (Hey, check your voice mail!) and will let you know the results as soon as possible. We're as eager to share the news as you are to hear it! [caption id="attachment_1407" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Cornelius Eady. Poulin Prize Judge."][/caption]

In case you haven't checked out literary blog The Rumpus in the past week, we are proud to inform you that Aimee Parkison's short story "Theater of Cruelty" from her latest collection The Innocent Party was selected for their Sunday Fiction series! Hop over to the Sunday Fiction page to give it a read. If you are unfamiliar with Aimee's work, now's your chance to get yourself acquainted; this atmospheric piece will have you pinned until the end. Aimee's amazing new collection The Innocent Party will be officially published in May. BUT, it can be purchased directly through BOA's secure...

[caption id="attachment_1141" align="alignleft" width="274" caption="Craig Morgan Teicher. BOA Author."][/caption] HTML Giant has turned their "Author Spotlight" on BOA author Craig Morgan Teicher. In the interview, Craig discusses his fable collection, Cradle Book, and says things like, "Sleep and fear have always been closely related to me. What is scarier than sleeping? Who knows what somebody will do to you while you’re sleeping? Or what you will do to yourself while dreaming. Oh—sleep is the scariest thing in the world. It’s like we die every day. To me, silence, fear and sleep are pretty much the same thing." If you think...

With generous help from the Lannan Foundation, BOA Editions will be publishing Lucille Clifton's collected works in a volume featuring a foreword by Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, afterword by noted poet Kevin Young, and statements of support from former Poet-Laureate  W.S. Merwin, Nikki Giovanni, and Maya Angelou. This monumental collection will include all of Clifton's published poems as well as previously uncollected, unpublished early, middle and later poems. For more about the Lannan Foundation and the BOA Editions Challenge Grant,  jump over to the Lannan Foundation's website.

In the review written by John Bradley for the new issue of Rain Taxi, Bradley highlights Nielsen's prose and how the poems in House Inspections take us into a dream world where everyday objects take on a new meaning. Bradley emphasizes how Nielsen's tone is objective and leaves the reader in a state of awe. Bradley says, "The prose poem's affinity for the surreal, however, should be celebrated, as should Nielsen's skill at plumbing the strangeness of the human psyche. House Inspections offers tantalizing mysteries for a world all too often gnawing on its own cynicism." Born in 1966, Carsten René...