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At the recent AWP conference in Washington D.C., PBS NewsHour was generous enough to film writers reading their work. This week the PBS NewsHour features BOA's very own Craig Morgan Teicher. Here is Craig reading "The Virtues of Birds" from Cradle Book. Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. You can also read the text here

A number of exciting events are happening during National Poetry Month! Below are the dates for upcoming events featuring BOA's poets. April is simply packed with opportunities to hear these wonderful poets read.  You can find more information here: http://www.boaeditions.org/about-us/events/. The calendar is always evolving so please keep checking as new events are added, and be on the lookout for our poets near you! Hope to see you at one of these events! Mon Mar 28 Nikola Madzirov reads at the launch of The Wolf Poetry Magazine with Anne Waldman, Saskia Hamilton, & Danielle Blau - jimmy's no. 43, East...

In Rochester for a special reading from Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (BOA Editions, 2009),  poet Matthew Shenoda will follow-up his reading at Monroe Community College with a master class on the poetry of travel on Friday, April 8 at Midtown Athletic Club. The third installment of Writing Exercises -- BOA Edition's popular new writing workshop series -- Shenoda's class will inspire participants to draw upon their own travel experiences to capture on the page adventures experienced in distant and not-so-distant lands. Great travel writing can be almost as fun as traveling. Through prose and poetry, we can experience...

[caption id="attachment_998" align="alignleft" width="157" caption="BOA poet Ales Steger. Photo by Joze Suhadolnik."][/caption] It was recently announced that Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger's book, The Book of Things, is a finalist for the 2011 Best Translated Book Awards. Šteger's The Book of Things is his fourth book of poetry, and the first complete volume translated into English. The edition's translator, Brian Henry, asserts in his introduction that this "is the ideal introduction to his work for English readers." Since his first publication in 1995, Šteger's poems have been translated into a dozen languages, including German, Spanish, English, Czech, and Bulgarian, which makes...