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BOA fiction author Anne Germanacos (In the Time of the Girls) appeared on KPFK, Pacifica Radio for Southern California and you can hear it online here: www.kpfk.org Here's what the station had to say about the show: "8 PM on KPFK, Pacifica Radio for Southern California: The fragmented-seeming narratives written by my guest this week offer at first individual voices and epigrammatic lines suggesting ancient inscription, references to classical mythology. A schematic almost for storytelling itself, bigger stories accumulate and culminate in an adding up of the sum of parts. The individual sections of stories in Anne Germanacos’s In the...

Hot on the heels of BOA Edition's October Writing Exercises event, our inaugural master class in poetry and prose with BOA author Christopher Kennedy and esteemed visiting writer Gary Lutz, we are delighted to announce the second installment of Writing Exercises with BOA's own Sean Thomas Dougherty! BOA's Writing Exercises workshops are held at Rochester's Midtown Athletic Club and offer participants the chance to work closely with BOA authors to exercise their creative muscles and learn new techniques to create their own work. Each event features a workshop, reading and lunch. Drawing on the event's setting, Sean's upcoming workshop -...

The January/February issue of Poets & Writers magazine features their 6th annual "Debut Poets" feature. This section spotlights poets who have published their first collection in the previous year. We're thrilled that BOA's own Keetje Kuipers has been profiled for the feature for her A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize-winning book, Beautiful in the Mouth! Along with some fun "stats" (Time Spent Writing the Book: Four Years) Keetje provides some insights into her writing process: “I try to push the poem as far as I can before I pull the car over or borrow a pen from a corner bodega—I’ve inhaled as...

At the end of each year, the New York Times Magazine does a tribute to important cultural figures that passed away. The feature is called "The Lives They Lived." This year they included a beautiful tribute to Lucille Clifton, including rare insights from one of her daughters: “I’ve got some fox poems going around in my head,” Alexia remembered her mother saying, much as she had long ago, with her six young children playing around her, when she was inspired by something seen or contemplated and sat down at the typewriter at the dining table — or took the pen...

[caption id="attachment_1150" align="aligncenter" width="265" caption="The Poetry Foundation's Whitman-Santa image"][/caption] Special occasions often draw new readers to poetry. There's just something about the perfectly placed poem that sets off an event and turns it into something truly unforgettable. So it was a great idea for the Poetry Foundation to post a feature on Christmas poems on their website. Let's hope they do this every year... but with BOA poems included! (-; [Christmas Poems]