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[caption id="attachment_1032" align="alignleft" width="205" caption="Nikola Madzirov. BOA poet."][/caption] Who is Nikola Madzirov? In short, he's one of the most powerful young voices in European poetry - and he's coming to America. At the tender poetic age of 37, Madzirov's poetry has been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In March 2011, BOA Editions will publish his first full-length U.S. collection, Remants of Another Age, which will include an Introduction by Carolyn Forche. The list of awards that Nikola has garnered could stretch from Macedonia to the U.S. Most recently, he has been selected as the featured poet for Velestovo...

Powell's Books is widely regarded as one of the best independent bookstores in the country. Located in Portland, Oregon the flagship store, " fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books." If you love books like we love books, that's enough to make you start shopping around for flights to Portland! Their commitment to books extends to their website which includes a blog that features a review-a-day. Not only do these reviews highlight worthy new titles, but they also shine light on some wonderful literary journals and review outlets that may fly under...

[caption id="attachment_1028" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Peter Conners"][/caption] Peter Conners has been promoted to Publisher of BOA Editions, Ltd.  His previous title was Editor/Marketing Director. Conners has worked at BOA Editions since 2003. He began his career as Marketing Director and was then promoted to Associate Editor before being named Editor in 2008. He has continued to direct BOA’s marketing throughout his seven years at the non-profit publishing house. Board Chair Bernadette Catalana says, “The Board of Directors voted unanimously to promote Peter to the Publisher position. He has exhibited outstanding leadership skills throughout his career at BOA and we place our confidence...

Publishers Weekly, a major trade magazine for the publishing world, also maintains a blog called PWxyz. They describe the blog as, "a place to find late-breaking news on the book business, as well as other stuff that falls between the cracks of our other print and online coverage." The editor of PWxyz is BOA's own Craig Morgan Teicher whose new book, Cradle Book: Stories & Fables, was published in spring 2010. Did this connection help BOA get recognition for our e-book publishing program in PWxyz? No doubt. But Craig is also a big advocate for e-book publishing and has been nudging us down this digital road since we first started...

BOA Editions is proud to be recognized as a national and international publishing house. However, we're also proud of our hometown city of Rochester, NY! BOA is located in Rochester's "Neighborhood of the Arts" where we're surrounded by a raft of art galleries, artist studios, and arts organizations. The city is currently building an "Art Walk" right across the street from our building. Here's how the project is described on the Art Walk website: " Several civic, cultural, educational and community groups are working together to engage the public in extending this urban art trail, which will connect major Rochester cultural institutions in the...