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Gather 'round readers, BOA poet Wyn Cooper has been featured on Slate.com this week! The website has posted Cooper's poem, "Movement," along with an audio clip of him reading it. This is a real treat considering that his poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, CrazyHorse, and more than 75 other magazines. The man can write! So click here and check it out, come back, post a comment, and tell us what you think! Also, Cooper has recently released a collection of sonnets, Chaos is the New Calm, which you should also check out by clicking here

For the past year, BOA has been waging a guerilla poetry campaign around our home city of Rochester, NY. We've "popped up" at art galleries, the public market, inside stores and on the street. The idea is simple - go where people are congregating, stand up and proudly read a BOA poem. The campaign continued last weekend with BOA board member Jonathan Everitt and BOA marketing/production manager Al Abonado reading poems from Selected Poems by BOA founder Al Poulin at the opening of an exhibit of Robert Marx paintings at Rochester Contemporary Art Center. Don't adjust your computer (or your...

Jillian Weise Wins the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award Rochester, NY—Jillian Weise has been awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for her new collection, The Book of Goodbyes. Her book will be published by BOA Editions in fall 2013. This award is given biennially to a poet with a new book of exceptional merit. Manuscripts are solicited and there is no formal submission process for this award. Poet, actress, and associate editor of Poetry magazine, Isabella Gardner (1915-1981) published five celebrated collections of poetry and was the first recipient of the New York State Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for Poetry....

Should you find yourself in Syracuse, NY this Friday (Feb 3, 2012), you should definitely check out BOA poet Janice Harrington's reading at the YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center! Janice Harrington's first book of poetry, Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions as well as the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her second book of poetry, The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home, which was also published by BOA Editions, came out in 2011. She is also the winner of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship...

BOA authors [from left]: Christopher Kennedy, Michael Waters, and Keetje Kuipers,  who will peform readings at the convention.  Readers, writers, and other literary enthusiasts, take note: The NeMLA 43rd Annual Convention is set to take place March 15-18 in Rochester, NY, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Riverside Convention Center, downtown. The convention is truly a literary nirvana: from poetry, play, and fiction readings, to panels, roundtables, workshops, and more – all centering on the theme of “Creative Writing and Editing” – attendees will have much to explore, learn, and treasure through the experience. BOA Editions will play a large part...