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San Francisco Chronicle's Stephen Burt praises the depth of characterization in Nickole Brown's Fanny Says in his new poetry spotlight. Calling Fanny "a character in every sense of the word," Burt praises Brown's collection, which includes "plenty of Fanny’s speech, Fanny’s recipes, Fanny’s monologues about how to be a lady," all of which reveal "Fanny’s notions of dignity, along with the limits of her social world." "The prose poems, spoken entirely by Fanny, suggest oral histories like Studs Terkel’s, if Terkel were rewritten by Loretta Lynn and Lucille Ball. Brown’s verse — which makes up most of the volume — is...

In a glowing new review, NewPages calls G.C. Waldrep's Testament "ambitious and athletic, ever-climbing toward a breakthrough." "We see right away what sort of virtuosity—one hundred and thirty pages of it—lies before us: the precision of image, the sonority of language, the diversity of tone and approach. And good god that lexicon." Reviewer Ryo Yamaguchi says: "...this is, to me, pure Waldrep, a distillate of his finest maneuvers, and in many ways the most ambitious of his meditational efforts. To that end, this is a rangy poem, shifting and cycling back on itself, plumbing and measuring and reassessing in a long...

BOA is pleased to announce that the Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has issued a generous dollar-for-dollar challenge grant in the amount of $40,000 to support BOA’s 40th anniversary Major Gifts Campaign and endowment fund. Founded on July 4, 1976, BOA will mark 40 years as a publisher of contemporary poetry and literary fiction in 2016. Over these 40 years, BOA has earned an esteemed reputation as one of the nation’s premier independent presses, publishing the works of such renowned, award-winning authors as Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, and Naomi Shihab Nye. In recent years, BOA authors have continued to garner numerous prestigious awards, including the 2013...

We are proud to announce that BOA author Nikola Madzirov (Remnants of Another Age, 2011) has won the prestigious DAAD Writer's Fellowship for 2016-2017! Selected for the award by an international nomination committee, Madzirov has been invited to Berlin for a 12-month stay in 2016 by the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the German Academic Exchange Service to Berlin, in order to develop or finish a new book, and to actively participate in the artistic and cultural life of Berlin throughout Germany and Europe. Dating back to 1963, previous winners of the fellowship award include W.H. Auden, Zbigniew Herbert, Margaret Atwood, Susan Sontag, Adam Zagajewski, Bei Dao, Taduesz Rózewicz, Tomaž Šalamun, Ingeborg Bachman, Inger Christensen, Carlos Fuentes, Witold...