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Harvard Review on TROUBLE THE WATER
In a new piece from the Harvard Review, poet and reviewer William Doreski assembles a list of eleven new poets that "all deserve serious consideration and a readership beyond a few friends." Included on this list is Derrick Austin's recent A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize-winning collection, Trouble the Water."The intelligence and accomplishment of each year’s crop of debut poetry collections always astonishes me. Poetry is one of our most widely practiced arts, but it receives too little attention in the press. Still, poets continue to offer their wares."Austin is in good company, being reviewed alongside such other poets as Eleanor Chai, Leora Fridman, Lynn Pedersen, Kimberly...
The 'landscape and milieu' of MANDATORY EVACUATION
A new review of Peter Makuck's Mandatory Evacuation, published in the latest issue of North Carolina Literary Review, considers the difference between writers who "love to make up almost everything" and those who "prefer to work with the landscapes and milieu made familiar by upbringing, home, and travel."Recognizing that Makuck "tends toward the latter," reviewer Marly Youmans aims to "discover how rooted a narrator can be in his own times and places." She says, "The persona emerging from the poems of Mandatory Evacuation observes and is allied to the 'hunched figure with his hook, / shaped like a question, pole tossed' into the shiny blackness of the...
Actions We Can Take to Preserve the NEA and NEH
As with all non-profit organizations, BOA depends upon grant funding and private donations to underwrite our work. The truth is that the cultural life of America—symphonies, dance companies, art galleries, arts-in-education programs, you name it—depends upon public funding for its very survival.If the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are cut, it would decimate the cultural life of America and spell the end for many non-profit organizations. It would also end the substantial revenue stream that cultural institutions bring to our cities and towns.On behalf of non-profit arts organizations across the country,...
BOA Editions at AWP 2017
BOA is proud to be a Literary Partner for AWP 2017 in Washington, DC, from February 8-11. Join us at the BOA Booth (#525) for author signings, special discounts on books, and the debut of our Spring 2017 titles! Be sure to mark your calendars using the detailed schedule below for BOA and author events. BOA AUTHOR SIGNINGS Thursday, February 9: Chen Chen: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.Craig Morgan Teicher: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Friday, February 10: Zach Powers: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Huda Fakhreddine: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.Kathryn Nuernberger: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Saturday, February 11: Christian Barter: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Janice N. Harrington: 1:00 p.m. –...
Words Without Borders: SEED IN SNOW guides readers to 'new vistas'
In a new review from Words Without Borders, reviewer Kate Prengel calls Knuts Skujenieks's Seed in Snow "simple and unique, personal and universal, using generous, open-hearted language to guide the reader to new vistas." Translated from the Latvian by Bitite Vinklers, this bilingual edition is the first US publication of the acclaimed poet."Skujenieks makes his own emotions so gigantic that even the trees and the sun itself share them. The pines themselves want to escape, the sun is saddened, and yet, because the landscape shares in the prisoners’ suffering, that suffering is made bearable. . . . Nature, fierce and simple, is always interwoven with...