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Many thanks to Jeff Spevak and the Democrat & Chronicle for this front page feature on BOA's 40th anniversary!BOA Celebrates 40 Years of Fine PrintDemocrat & Chronicle | March 27, 2016A lot of rough water has passed under the bridge in the years since Al Poulin published the follow-up book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet that no one else wanted to touch, because its characters were speaking from the point of view of Nazis and German soldiers. BOA Editions’ first book, The Fuehrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress. Working out of the basement of his Brockport home, those early...

We are thrilled to announce that Chen Chen is the winner of the fifteenth annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for his collection When I Grow up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities. The collection was selected by highly-acclaimed poet Jericho Brown. Chen will receive a $1,500 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in spring 2017.Of the winning collection, Brown says, “Chen Chen refuses to be boxed in or nailed down. He is a poet of Whitman’s multitudes and of Langston Hughes’ blues, of Dickinson’s ‘so cold no fire can warm me’ and of Michael...

Plume Poetry just published a rave new review of Marsha de la O's Antidote for Night, in an installment that "celebrates National Poetry Month by examining four unsung collections from 2015."Reveiws editor Adam Tavel calls the book a "sweeping inventory of the ecological and political complexity of Southern California," and an "adventurous, rangy collection that probes place-based poetics as well as the elemental power of family."Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2015, Antidote for Night resists mere regionalism, however. . . . Like Gary Soto and Philip Levine, de la O has that rare gift to write poems...

"'I still think it might have ruined the book if I’d known at the start how the story would end, and that’s one reason it needed to be fiction': Robert Thomas chats with Lynette D'Amico about his poetic new novel, Bridge (BOA Editions)."In a thorough and captivating interview with Lynette D'Amico of Fiction Writers Review, BOA author Robert Thomas talks about the cross-genre nature of Bridge; the fine lines between poetry, prose, and fiction; and the reasons why the book starts with a gun and ends with a gun.D'Amico says: "Bridge came as a complete surprise to me. A poet friend...

AWP 2016 is just around the corner! In honor of our 40th anniversary, BOA will be the Presenting Sponsor for this year's AWP Conference and Bookfair in Los Angeles from March 31 to April 2—and we are committed to making it an unforgettable experience.Our Bookfair booths this year will be 800 and 802 at the entrance, where we will have author signings, special book pricing, giveaways, and more! At the conference, we will also debut Li-Young Lee's new poetry chapbook, The Word from His Song, a limited edition collectible featuring eight new poems and a beautifully designed letterpress cover. See...