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[caption id="attachment_1352" align="alignleft" width="294" caption="Deborah Brown. BOA poet."][/caption] Deborah Brown's debut poetry collection entitled Walking the Dog's Shadow recieved an outstanding review from Rain Taxi Magazine.  Her work features poetry of memories and refections by a speaker who is "mature and wise."  The collection uses the concrete world to discover implicit realities in walking the shadow of a dog or losing the moon from the sky.  Brown's poety, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and published by BOA Editions, leads the reader off the road of familiarity into the creative and imaginative unfamilar. Rain Taxi Magazine commented that Brown's poety draws on careful refections and memories which become discussions of the abstract, absent and real. ...

Craig Morgan Teicher's Cradle Book recently received a glowing review from blogger Tracy K. Smith over at The Best American Poetry. Relating an episode from her own college days when one of her professors spent the first half hour of her first class of the term reading Italo Calvino's "The Parrot" aloud, Smith unearths the "large, strange order to which even we- in our post-post modern moment- are subject," and the inexorable draw to fables and folk tales which we all find in ourselves. "I think they speak to a place in us that is very similar to where poems...

BOA submits all books and volumes of poetry to dozens of different literary contests throughout the year, ranging from awards for individual poems to the Pulitzer Prize. One of these is the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)'s annual National Translation Award. Besides considerable prestige the award carries a $5000 prize with it. This year we submitted two of 2010's strongest works, Book of Things: Poems by Aleš Steger, which has previously won a 2011 Best Translated Book Award, and Book of the Edge: Poems by Ece Temelkuran. BOA is proud to announce that both Book of Things and Book of...

Peter Makuck, the author of Long Lens: New and Selected Poems, has won the Brockman-Campbell Book Award for 2011. The award is given out by the North Carolina Poetry Society for a book-length volume of poetry published in the previous year written by a native or resident North Carolinian.  Makuck joins 2010 winner Dannye Romine Powell, author of A Necklace of Bees. Congratulations to Peter! Long Lens: New and Selected Poems is available for purchase here.

Don't miss Sean Thomas Dougherty, BOA and more tonight at ROCO for an Evening of Jazz and Poetry! It'll be a blast, I promise. About Our Sponsor This year's Evening of Jazz and Poetry is being sponsored by Lavin, O'Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & DiSipio, Attorneys at Law. The Lavin firm, founded 25 years ago in Philadelphia, PA, is nationally known for its local, regional and national counsel work in product liability, environmental, toxic tort and mass tort litigation. The firm represents domestic and international manufacturers of pharmaceutical, automotive, electrical, medical and heavy equipment, and asbestos products. The firm also handles...