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[caption id="attachment_1111" align="aligncenter" width="203" caption="White Hand Society by BOA's Publisher Peter Conners"][/caption] Peter Conners is not only BOA's Publisher, but he's also an author in his own right! His latest book, White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg, weaves a fascinating and entertaining tale of the life, times and friendship of these two larger-than-life counterculture figures and the incredible impact their relationship had on America. The book was released this week by the legendary indepedent City Lights Books and is just reaching a bookstore near you! In celebration of the publication of White Hand Society, BOA has arranged...

If you search for "BOA Editions" on YouTube you'll come across all sorts of cool videos of our authors reading at different venues. But now BOA has our very own YouTube Channel - and we're about to start packing it with some high quality literary viewing! Our first offering is from BOA's "Poetry is Jazz" event, held at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center on June 16th 2010, featuring BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty and the ABC quartet. This video (I really want to call it a documentary because it's certainly more than just a straightforward videotaping) was done by Icon Creative. We give...

While everyone laments the decline of print review outlets (us included... especially newspapers!) Gently Read Literature has stepped up to the plate and delivered a monthly feast of in-depth reviews of poetry and fiction. I emphasize "in-depth" because these are no one paragraph blurb reviews. GRL consistently delivers thoughtful analysis and reviews carrying the weight their subjects (the books) demand. In their current issue, poet and critic Kurt Brown reviews Dark Things (BOA, 2009) poems by Novica Tadic, translated from the Serbian with an Introduction by Charles Simic.    Here's a little taste of how Brown views Tadic's poetry: "Tadic’s poems arise from a child-like pleasure in the grotesque,...

[caption id="attachment_998" align="aligncenter" width="157" caption="BOA poet Ales Steger. Photo by Joze Suhadolnik."][/caption] Guernica's poetry editor Erica Wright reviews The Book of Things and reveals that she's been "impatiently waiting for this collection" since January of last year!  Here's an excerpt from the review: "Henry has brought these poems to life for those of us not lucky enough to read Slovenian. Some of Henry’s translations are impressive for sheer acrobatics. “Mint” begins with the line “Mintafiction, minthane, mintabolism,” and the work of the translator can be both seen and appreciated. The translation continues with “There the smell of mint grows out of...

[caption id="attachment_957" align="aligncenter" width="227" caption="Anne Germanacos. BOA fiction author."][/caption] This link takes you to a beautifully clear video of Anne Germanacos reading from her new story collection, In the Time of the Girls. The reading took place on October 5th, 2010 at the Simon Pearce Gallery in Quechee, Vermont. You do have to download the video to watch it, but I highly recommend doing it. There are so many grainy, poor sounding author readings online - it's a treat to watch one with real production value and the fiction is, of course, knock out. (BTW, all you profs and teachers,...