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[caption id="attachment_1020" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="A. Poulin, Jr. BOA Founder."][/caption] BOA is now accepting entries for the 10th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize contest. The prize is awarded to honor a poet's first book, while also honoring the late founder of BOA Editions, Ltd. This year's distinguished final judge is Jane Hirshfield. Read all about the contest here [A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize] Some poets are "early adopters" who submit their manuscripts early. Some are "deadliners" who sprint to the post office and shove their envelopes into the postal worker's hands at the last minute. Which are you? How about your poet friends?...

One of the strange things about working in publishing is that you're always thinking across a long spectrum of multiple publication years. For example, our fall titles have just been printed and are shipping into stores, but at the same time we just completed a big chunk of pre-publication work for our spring 2011 titles. And guess what, our spring 2010 are still new too! And then again, there's the submissions which tend to be read/accepted at least two years prior to publication, so that's yet another timeline. And when it comes to not-for-profit publishing, you can also throw grant deadlines -which include information on...

BOA Editions Presents “Writing Exercises” At Midtown Athletic Club (200 East Highland Drive, Rochester, NY) Saturday, October 9, 10AM-2PM   BOA Editions, Ltd., the Rochester-based Pulitzer-Prize- and National-Book-Award-winning publishing house, will offer participants a chance to work with two nationally recognized visiting authors to “exercise” your writing muscles and tone up your imagination!  “Writing Exercises” The workshop will consist of workshops in fiction and poetry, lunch (included in the workshop price), and a reading featuring visiting instructors and authors Christopher Kennedy and Gary Lutz. Participants will learn new writing techniques and be inspired to create their own poetry and fiction....

We had a great response to the Ko Un brush paintings we posted here last week, so here's another goodie from our translation files. Whenver possible, our translations include a handwritten poem by the author which we scan and print in the books. Today's handwritten poem is by Turkish poet Ece Temelkuran from her collection Book of the Edge. In addition to being a world-class poet, Temelkuran is an award-winning journalist for one of Turkey's most popular newspapers. You can read all about her at her website: Ece Temelkuran. [caption id="attachment_1008" align="aligncenter" width="199" caption="Ece Temelkuran. BOA poet."][/caption] Book of the Edge was translated by a...

In celebration of the release of their new record, Eight Belles, the band Jessie Murphy in the Woods did something truly, impressively unusual: they interviewed a poet. More specifically, BOA's own Keetje Kuipers. Why, you ask, would a band do something like that? Good question. Here's what they say: "We – Jessie Murphy In The Woods – have just completed the great adventure of releasing our first record, Eight Belles. We’ve put it out, we’ve played shows in homage to it, we’ve been interviewed about it, and we’ve traveled in support of it. Now it’s time for something new. It’s...