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The Readers Review recently posted an interview with BOA Author Anne Germanacos in which Germanacos discusses her new book In the Time of the Girls.  Interviewer Mary Ellen Hannibal, who calls the book "a work you must give yourself to in order to sit with at all," asks Germanacos about her non-linear style and her themes that cross boundaries. When questioned about the references the work makes to "drastic painful experiences that are particularly female," Germanacos responds, "None of my characters have dodged pain.  To have done so would mean that they'd dodged life, and what kind of story would that be?!"    Read the full interview here The Readers Review...

Should you be heading to Washington, DC this week for AWP, please make sure to join us for a tribute to Lucille Clifton, celebrated writer and educator. KC Culver, Michael S. Glaser, Theresa Sotto, Jayme McLellan, Lauri Watkins will make up a panel to honor Lucille Clifton, not only as an author of international importance, but also as mentor and colleague. Lucille enjoyed a long career sharing her light with faculty, undergraduates, and graduates. Participants will discuss her compelling presence, her teaching and writing methods, and her influence on us as students, teachers, and human beings. We will also explore...

BOA Editions will be camped out at tables B31 and B32 in Hall B North during this week's Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference in Washington, DC at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. We have a special lineup planned for the conference, including signings by 2010 BOA authors and a tribute to Lucille Clifton on Saturday.   Hope to see you all there! (All events listed will occur at tables B31 and B32, except for the Clifton tribute) Thursday, February 3: 2 PM: Sean Thomas Dougherty signs Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line Friday, February 4: 11AM: Anne...

Publishers Weekly recently announced its list of the best new titles being published this spring.  Out of the 6,000 titles submitted, ten were chosen for each genre.  In what is called, "a strong season for poetry," G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher's new collaboration Your Father on the Train of Ghosts found its way into the top-ten list of spring poetry. Reviewer Craig Morgan Teicher, who refers to Waldrep and Gallaher as "two rising poetic stars," writes, "The result of the collaboration sounds like neither of their poetic voices; rather, it's a weird third voice you'll want to get to know."  Read Publishers Weekly's full list here...

Calling Cradle Book "among the year's most innovative work," Danniel Schoonebeek reviews Craig Morgan Teicher's latest book of poems as both imaginative and unsettling.  Schoonebeek compares Teicher to several other American poets who are "breaking the boundaries of contemporary form to establish new aesthetic frontiers."  He writes that while Cradle Book stems from traditional folklore, Teicher creates his own new form.  "Teicher's is a speaker, who like a god, likes to dictate the terms of his universe, of his story, by speaking them into existence.  In fact, Teicher's speaker is not a speaker at all - he is a storyteller."   Read the full review here The Rumpus.net