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[caption id="attachment_448" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Carpathia by Cecilia Woloch"][/caption] Bozena U. Zaremba writes about Cecilia Woloch in the new issue of The Cosmopolitan Review: "Petite figure, dark brown hair - lush and curly. Her slightly slanted eyes are kind, attentive and wide open to people who have come to listen to her poetry. The moment Cecilia Woloch starts to talk, the audience falls silent. This extraordinary gift of attracting people's attention immediately draws the listeners into the vibrant and powerful world of her poetic imagination. The emotional intensity, the meaning of each phrase and the rhythm of every stanza come across...

[caption id="attachment_943" align="alignleft" width="164" caption="Ece Temelkuran. BOA poet."][/caption] In 2002, BOA Editions published the first title in our Lannan Translations Selection Series: The Siege by Ljuba Merlina Bortolani, translated by Michael Palma with an introduction by Alfredo De Palchi.  That book marked the beginning of a fruitful relationship between BOA and the Lannan Foundation that has produced 16 more titles, some by world-renown poets such as Ko Un and Adonis, and many by authors making their American debut such as Jean-Michel Maulpoix and Maya Bejerano. The list of translators for the series is equally distinguished, including Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic, Khaled Mattawa, Gary Gach, and younger...

"[Beautiful in the Mouth is] the most unique and startling book I’ve read in a long time..." What else did they say? Find out here: [Devil's Lake Review of Beautiful in the Mouth]

[caption id="attachment_938" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Painter Steve Smock with BOA Editor Peter Conners and BOA Development Director Melissa Hall"][/caption] Q: What's more fun than watching an artist create a painting in two hours flat? A: Watching it speeded-up to forty seconds flat with time lapse video! Click the below link to check out Steve Smock painting during BOA's "Poetry Is Jazz" event on June 15, 2010. This painting will be auctioned off at BOA's annual Dine & Rhyme celebration on October 16th, 2010. It is signed by the artist and also inscribed with "BOA" and the date it was created. [Smock...

"Poetry Is Jazz" was held on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 during the Rochester International Jazz Festival. BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty read from his book Broken Hallelujahs and the forthcoming Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line. The ABC Band (Mark Kellogg, Jim Doser, Chris Azzara, and Geoff Saunders) played along with h...im and also on their own. Artist Steve Smock created a painting during the event - the painting will be auctioned off at our Dine & Rhyme celebration on October 16.   Here are a few pictures from the event. A complete photo album is posted on BOA's...