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[caption id="attachment_957" align="alignleft" width="227" caption="Anne Germanacos. BOA fiction author."][/caption] In April 2007, BOA started publishing literary fiction through our American Reader Series. Our goal was to seek out and publish fiction that it is as singular and powerful as our poetry. Fiction written by authors more concerned with the artfulness of their writing than the twists and turns of plot . Fiction that is not only compelling to read, but also artistically excellent. Although we didn't consciously decide to focus on authors who hadn't previously published story collections, it makes sense that they are the lifeblood of the series. While we have no data to support this hypothesis, it seems that...

Happy Fourth of July from your friends at BOA Editions!

[caption id="attachment_849" align="alignleft" width="167" caption="Craig Morgan Teicher's "Cradle Book""][/caption] Library Journal, the publication of record for librarians across the country, says this of Cradle Book by Craig Morgan Teicher. What say you? Perhaps it's because morals sound archaic to the modern ear that anything that ends in one strikes us as less a story than an artifact. With this varied collection of short prose pieces, Teicher (Brenda Is in the Room & Other Poems) works at some remove from the traditional fable while forfeiting none of the surprise and humor that are part of the genre. While Teicher cops many...

In honor of Peters Makuck's Long Lens: New & Selected Poems, Newsobsersver.com has a wonderful piece about the man and his work: The publication of a "new and selected" edition of a poet's work is a high-water mark for the writer's career. It allows work from older collections that may have gone out of print to get back into circulation, and in one volume it gives a reader a sense of the writer's themes and subject matter as it evolved over the years. It's also a statement from the publisher that here is a writer whose work has passed the...

Congrats to BOA authors Craig Morgan Teicher, Keetje Kuipers, Wyn Cooper, Peter Makuck, and Ece Temelkuran (and translator Deniz Perin) for having their books named on Montserrat Review's list of Best Books for Summer Reading! We've had BOA books listed there before, but not this many - quite an honor! Read the whole list here [Montserrat Review Best Books for Summer Reading List]