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(BOA Author Adam McOmber) In his review of Adam McOmber’s “This New and Poisonous Air,” Gabriel Blackwell of HTMLgiant.com, focuses on what it means to impart our selves on to empty vessels of our own creation. Blackwell argues that works of art do not wholly exist without our understanding of the artist. “When we make reference to the ‘Mona Lisa,’” Blackwell explains, “It is only rarely as a stand-in for its namesake, Lisa del Giocondo. It is the artist we want to speak of, the portraitist rather than his subject, for he is what we see in the portrait, not...

Even more photos from this great night!

Many thanks to all those who came out to make this year’s Dine & Rhyme a huge success! The readings this year, to quote one audience member, were “awesome” (before awesome he used another word we can’t reprint here). Keetje Kuipers began the readings with selections from Beautiful in the Mouth, Aracelis Girmay read from Kingdom Animalia, and Michael Waters read from various collections, offering along the way some fascinating anecdotes, such as an account of his accidental entry into shark-infested waters. Below are a few pictures from the dinner and auction. More to come soon on our Facebook page.

BOA author Aracelis Girmay We here at BOA could not be more excited to announce that Aracelis Girmay will be featured in two upcoming events hosted by the Poetry Society of America in the next few months. Girmay is the author of two collections of poetry; Teeth (2007) and most recently, Kingdom Animalia, which received the 2011 Isabella Gardner Award. On November 8, in Cambridge, MA, Girmay will be joined by fellow poets Rosa Alcala and Eduardo C. Corral for the premier of the LATINO/A POETRY NOW reading series. The series is set to begin in Cambridge, MA and proceed...