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We're excited to release BOA's first audiobook this spring! Poet Kendra DeColo had the opportunity to reflect on her experience recording the audiobook for her new collection I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World—new from BOA in print, as an ebook, and as our first ever audiobook in April 2021! The Making of an Audiobook Before audiobooks were popular, my grandmother would sit at her desk and read The New York Times into a recording device each week for the visually impaired. It was something she did post-retirement from her career in politics (where she helped craft legislation preceding...

BOA is deeply saddened and angered by violence against the Asian community in New York and across the country. We are committed to speaking up against racism in all forms. We stand with our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander authors, employees, members, and community. #StopAsianHate BOA remains committed to bringing vital voices to a world of readers. We have curated a small selection of BOA titles by Asian and Asian American poets whose work reveals the richness of their experiences. Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes Documents by Jan-Henry Gray Sky Country by Christine Kitano When I Grow Up...

Rochester, NY— BOA Editions will publish Casual Conversation by Renia White as the next Blessing the Boats Selections title. Ms. White will receive a $5,000 honorarium, and her manuscript will be published in April 2022 as part of the New Poets of America Series. Casual Conversation marks the debut selection by inaugural Blessing the Boats Selections Editor-at-Large Aracelis Girmay.  Girmay said of the collection: “I have read Casual Conversation several times now, and still the encounter is new, charged. Renia White writes: ‘some people get to want and need / and be met in it. // some just the mouth, / just the teeth // some eat...

This evening we remember and honor Mirko, a talented Rochester artist and friend of BOA and its founder, A. Poulin, Jr. Mirko created and graciously donated BOA's logo of Orpheus with his lyre. He passed away on February 8th, 2021. Boo Poulin, BOA's Honorary Vice Chair recalls, "Mirko Pylyshenko taught printmaking in the art department at SUNY Brockport where he was joined by the very talented Robert Marx, Wendell Castle, Albert Paley, and Jack Wolsky to name a few. Mirko also held the position of chairman of the art department for 10 years and he served proudly and actively in...