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Poulin Prize-winning author Chen Chen is featured in the September issue of The Atlantic as part of a long-form article on "How Came to Matter Again." The article by Jesse Lichtenstein explores the changing face of American poetry and the growing surge in poetry readership among Millennials and Generation Z. Lichenstein writes: The face of poetry in the United States looks very different today than it did even a decade ago, and far more like the demographics of Millennial America. If anything, the current crop of emerging poets anticipates the face of young America 30 years from now. The article notes how emerging poets use social...

Hello readers! Every week, BOA's staff and interns share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Song by Brigit Pegeen Kelly. Petition These are the long weeks. The weeksOf waiting. Let them beLonger. Let the days smolderLike the peat slungIn plastic sacks by the greenhouseAnd let the seedlings not rushInto growth but climb the air slowlyAs if it were a ladder,One small foot at a time.Let the fetid smell of bone mealBe the body unlockingAs the river does, slowing to a hazy lazeThat pulls the boaters inAnd makes the fish rise up....

Rochester, New York –– Mark Polanzak is the winner of the eighth annual BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize for his collection, The OK End of Funny Town. The collection was selected from over 350 submissions by BOA Publisher Peter Conners. Polanzak will receive a $1,000 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. within the American Reader Series in spring 2020.“BOA Editions' literary fiction is innovative and it is remarkable. I have been a fan for years. I am thrilled—and still a little unconvinced—that I have won their Short Fiction Prize,” Polanzak said.Of the collection, Peter Conners says: “The OK...

Greetings! Every week throughout the summer, BOA's staff and interns will share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Clues from the Animal Kingdom by Christopher Kennedy—coming in September from BOA Editions. Confusing Myself with the Whippoorwill Today, I was a madness of regrettable actions. At the conveniencestore, I eyed the cashiers warily as they slouched in round-shouldered,teenaged aplomb. Their youth not yet wasted.Try not to think was my mantra as I left through the slow, antagonisticelectric doors, but the whippoorwills disturbed me with their calls,despite a 93% decline in their numbers in the...

Hello readers! Join our team of interns as they explore over 40 years of our publication history and share their passion for some of their favorite titles from BOA Editions. In today's post, Noah M. hops across the pond to contemplate William Heyen's poetic portraits of the British royal family.  Beyond Even the Memory of a Marriage: William Heyen's Diana, Charles, & the Queen I'm Noah, one of BOA's summer interns. I'll be a senior at SUNY Geneseo this fall, where I study English and Latin American Studies. Literarily, my interests lie in poetry and works in translation, and I’m considering a career in publishing...