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 Rochester, N.Y. — BOA Editions is pleased to share that Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey by Craig Morgan Teicher is the winner of the 2022 Paterson Poetry Prize. The Paterson Poetry Prize is sponsored by The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. It is a $1,000 award for a book of poems, 48 pages or more in length, selected by our judges as the strongest collection of poems published in 2021. Teicher will be give a poetry reading and workshop at Poetry Center on April 1, 2023. To learn more about the Prize and see the list of finalists, please visit the Paterson Poetry...

Rochester, NY—BOA Editions, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Margaret Ray of Lawrenceville, NJ is the winner of the 21st annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her winning manuscript, Good Grief, the Ground, was selected by celebrated poet and writer Stephanie Burt from a pool of more than X original submissions. Good Grief, the Ground will be published by BOA Editions in April 2023 as part of the New Poets of America Series with a foreword by Stephanie Burt. Ray will also receive a $1,000 honorarium.  "It's hard to stay present in this world: to stay not only alive but alert—to the Florida thunder,...

Rochester, NY - BOA is honored to announce that The Literary Arts Emergency Fund, supported by the Mellon Foundation, has generously awarded the press a $25,000 grant in support of the publication and promotion of new books of poetry. BOA is among 313 nonprofit literary arts organizations and publishers across the United States that will receive distributions from a pool of $4,300,000 in funding in response to continued financial losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. BOA Executive Director and Publisher Peter Conners said, “We are grateful to the Literary Arts Emergency Fund for their generous grant to BOA Editions and...

 Rochester, NY— BOA Editions, Ltd. will publish A Tinderbox in Three Acts by Cynthia Dewi Oka as the next Blessing the Boats Selections title. Oka will receive a $5,000 honorarium, and her manuscript will be published in September 2022 as part of the American Poets Continuum Series. A Tinderbox in Three Acts is the second selection by Blessing the Boats Selections Editor-at-Large Aracelis Girmay. Girmay said of the collection: “I cannot say enough how critical this work is for its history, specificity, and devotion. At its center churn insurmountable, incomprehensible brutalities. These are the facts. But Oka and her fellow organizers, researchers, artists,...

  Rochester, N.Y. — BOA Editions, Ltd. has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the publication and promotion of eight new books of contemporary poetry. BOA’s project is among 1,248 projects across America totaling $28,840,000 that were selected to receive this first round of fiscal year 2022 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects category. “The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts projects like this one from BOA that help support the community’s creative economy,” said NEA Acting Chair Ann Eilers. “BOA Editions, Ltd. in Rochester, NY is among the...