BOA Blog

Our dedicated guest blogger, BOA poet Keetje Kuipers, returns with a new installment dedicated to her passion for poetry, country music, and where the two meet:  [caption id="attachment_878" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Keetje Kuipers and her boots"][/caption] Last week I went home to Montana.  On the way there I stopped in Eugene, Oregon and gave a talk and a reading at the University of Oregon.  I also read in Portland and managed to squeeze in a trip to Orcas Island in the San Juans for a reading there.  I was treading familiar ground the whole way: I was born in Washington state and earned my...

[caption id="attachment_874" align="alignleft" width="167" caption="Chaos Is the New Calm by Wyn Cooper"][/caption] Congratulations to Wyn Cooper for having the poem "Fin" from his new collection Chaos Is the New Calm featured on Poetry Daily over the weekend! You can read the poem here: ["Fin" on Poetry Daily] If you're a poetry reader and not familiar with Poetry Daily... you should check them out and become a subscriber! Every day, a new poem and poetry-related updates are emailed right to you. It's one of our favorite poetry sites and we guessing it'll become one of yours too. Here's some info on...

When you're "in the trenches" (as they say), working on producing and selling books, it's always great to have a real flesh-and-blood author visit the office. After all, without their oustanding poems and stories, there's no reason for us to be here every day! It's especially a pleasure when the author is a really cool person. Such was the case with today's visit by Christopher Kennedy - a brilliant poet and all-around good guy. Chris' last BOA book, Encouragement for a Man Falling to his Death, was awarded the 2007 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. His next book, Ennui Prophet, is...

Everyone who's been involved with a not-for-profit knows that board members are a key part of keeping the organization vital, healthy, and moving forward. Here at BOA, we're fortunate to have an outstanding board that supports our mission in numerous ways. At this morning's board meeting we asked the group to pose for a photo that we could use on our new website (more about that soon!). But why wait? Here's BOA's board gathered together in front of the fireplace at Midtown Athletic Club where the meeting was held. [caption id="attachment_885" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="BOA Board (partial)"][/caption] From left to right:...

Our spring 2010 titles have officially been released and all of us at BOA are very excited! This season, we have collections from Peter Makuck, Keetje Kuipers, Wyn Cooper and Craig Morgan Teicher -- three books of poetry and one of short stories, respectively -- and wanted to share something of each with you. [caption id="attachment_846" align="aligncenter" width="167" caption="Peter Makuck's "Long Lens""][/caption] Long Lens: New and Selected Poems is the newest in a long list (no pun intended) of books by Peter Makuck. It represents forty years of Makuck's poetry, and also includes twenty-five new poems. In this collection, he...