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Beautiful in the Mouth. BOA, dist. by Consortium. 2010. c.96p. ISBN 978-1-934414-33-0. pap. $16. POETRY [caption id="attachment_847" align="alignleft" width="167" caption="Keetje Kuipers' "Beautiful in the Mouth""][/caption] Kuipers, Keetje.   In her debut collection, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Kuipers untangles the interwoven discourse between life’s richness and barrenness, its fullness and hollowness. Daily experiences fuel her poems, providing lavish, sensual images rife with exuberant details. Though the concise language sometimes becomes sentimental—“no one/ was coming to give me what I/ needed, but I lay down and waited/ anyway”—the poet ultimately turns what seems to be a standard prose...

The day is finally here! Tonight at 6pm is BOA's "Poetry is Jazz" event at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center located at 137 East Avenue, Rochester, NY. Hear:  BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty read with musicians Mark Kellogg, Jim Doser, Chris Azzara, and Geoff Saunders! Watch:  Rochester Artist Steve Smock create an original piece of art! Schmooze:  With old friends and make some new ones! Enjoy:  The Rochester Contemporary Art Center's 6 x 6 exhibit! To wet your whistle, here's some shots from the rehearsal last night. It sounded tight! [gallery]

Everyone here at BOA is excited and gearing up for the big "Poetry Is Jazz" event tomorrow night! Here's a little information on the musicians who will be playing while BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty spins his poetic web: MARK KELLOGG is the Principal Trombonist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music. A versatile performer interested in many musical genres, Mark has released a solo jazz CD  (“Upstate Standards”) and has been a featured performer at low brass symposia across the United States and Asia. JIM DOSER is the Director of Music...

By now, regular visitors to the BOA blog know about next week's "Poetry Is Jazz" event. We've been working for a while on getting BOA poet Sean Thomas Dougherty together with our amazing RPO/Eastman musicians Mark Kellogg, Jim Doser, Chris Assara, and Geoff Saunders. The event was already going to be cool. Then we bumped up the cool factor yet another notch. Local painter Steve Smock is one of our favorite local painters. And it's not just because he's designed some outstanding BOA book covers, including Sean Thomas Dougherty's first BOA book cover, Broken Hallelujahs. In fact, not only did Steve create the...

Sometimes you've got to go beyond your blog/Twitter/Facebook spaces and send out a good old-fashioned press release to drum up media coverage for an event. Here's the press release for next week's Poetry Is Jazz gig. If you edit or write for a publication, it's probably a good idea for you to do an article on this event. Just sayin'... For Immediate Release BOA Editions Hosts “Poetry Is Jazz” Event On Tuesday, June 15th, Rochester’s premier not-for-profit literary publisher, BOA Editions, will host Poetry Is Jazz. The event will feature BOA author and acclaimed performance poet Sean Thomas Dougherty reading...