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[caption id="attachment_622" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="A. Poulin, Jr. Poet, translator, founder of BOA Editions"][/caption] We've been asked to share the list of the 18 semi-finalists for the 9th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize contest. These manuscripts were sent to final judge Tony Hoagland who then made the final winning selection. Each of these manuscripts stood-out in its own way, so applause and kudos to the poets. While we don't generally name official "semi-finalists" we're happy to provide the list of the manuscripts that Tony Hoagland received. These appear in no particular order and include the winning manuscript, Walking the Dog's...

[caption id="attachment_612" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Deborah Brown. Winner of the 2010 Poulin Prize."][/caption] Deborah Brown is the 2010 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize winner for her first collection of poems, Walking the Dog’s Shadow. Tony Hoagland selected this manuscript from 18 finalists and will write a Foreword to the published collection. Brown will receive a $1,500 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in March, 2011, in the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. An annual competition, the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is open to poets who have yet to publish a full-length-book collection of poetry. This...

Delirious Hem is a blog for female poets, by female poets, that describes itself thusly: "It’s a blog, it’s a poetics journal, it’s a platform. From time to time, a post will appear. It will be written by or with a poet whom some of us were curious to hear from. It will be exciting, provocative, fresh, or bombastic. It will go with your eyes and it will make you look ten years younger. It will never stop stop making sense, it will always love you, it will probably work." Delirious Hem is now featuring a tribute to Lucille Clifton...

[caption id="attachment_599" align="alignleft" width="107" caption="Michael Blumenthal. BOA poet."][/caption] Poet David Kirby has been teaching Michael Blumenthal's new book AND to his students at Florida State University - and the students have been eating it up. (What smart students!) In the process of teaching, David has been asking Michael, via email, to discuss some of his writing process on the book. I was fortunate enough to catch the tail end of that discussion and asked Michael to put together a concise paragraph that I could share on the BOA blog. Thanks to Michael for sharing these words on AND, which Publishers...

[caption id="attachment_369" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Naomi Shihab Nye. BOA Poet."][/caption] "Well, we need to keep extending imaginations, pressing, repeating, invoking, suggesting what other realities might exist, instead of the nightmares of war and hatred and conflict." Naomi Shihab Nye's above response during an interview with Cerise Press is as good a summation of her poetics as I've ever heard. The interview digs into the intersection - and possibilities - of the intersection between art and politics (by which I mean: peace). Read the interview here [Cerise Press Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye]