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BOA Editions is proud to welcome Albert Abonado to the staff! Al spent the last few months working for BOA as the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize Coordinator and volunteering his time helping at readings and events. He has proven himself to be a wonderful team player and a passionate advocate for poetry and literature. As of February 1st, Al will officially join the BOA staff as Associate Director of Marketing and Production. His duties will include assisting in all areas of marketing and promotion as well as guiding books through the various stages of production, warehousing, release, and reprinting.   Al received his B.A in Sociology from SUNY Geneseo. He also holds an...

The Fall 2010 issue of Pluma Fronteriza, a newsletter of Chicano(a) and Latino(a) writers of the El Paso and Cd. Juarez Border Region, features this review of Ray Gonzalez's newest prose poetry collection, Cool Auditor:    "Fusing the real with the surreal and the natural world with human relationships, Gonzalez creates his own brand of magical realism.  Gonzalez also brings pop humor in such poems as "The Guitars," which uses the word "guitar" in almost every sentence to talk about the true (and not so true) lives of rock stars.  David Lazar notes, 'Ray Gonzalez may be our most essential prose poet.'"...

Great news! Craig Morgan Teicher's Cradle Book was named by the prestigious Story Prize as a notable book of 2010. Check out the list of semi-finalists for the award over at the Story Prize Blog. This praise adds to the growing list of recognition for Teicher's debut collection of short stories, which was - oddly enough - also named by The New Yorker as a top poetry collection of the year due to Dan Chiasson's insistence on "counting [Teicher's collection] as ‘prose poems’ mainly to get them on this list.” Make sure to pick up your copy of Teicher's highly...

With our upcoming workshop in poetry inspired by sports and athleticism in mind: Baseball and Writing Marianne Moore Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what you will do; generating excitement-- a fever in the victim-- pitcher, catcher, fielder, batter. Victim in what category? Owlman watching from the press box? To whom does it apply? Who is excited? Might it be I? It's a pitcher's battle all the way--a duel-- a catcher's, as, with cruel puma paw, Elston Howard lumbers lightly back to plate. (His spring...

It's nearly one week away from BOA Editions' How to Write a Knockout Poem with BOA-poet Sean Thomas Dougherty! Don't miss out on this fun opportunity to work closely with Sean as he guides the master class through a series of exercises to write your own ode to your favorite athletic idol, exploring the specific vocabulary of your chosen sport and how to translate that into your own powerful narrative and imagery. “How to Write a Knockout Poem” will be held on Saturday, January 29 from 10AM to 12PM at Midtown Athletic Club in Rochester Space is limited!  Please reserve...