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Cecilia Woloch joined the BOA family in 2003 with her first book, Late. Anyone who has seen Cecilia read or taken one of her many writing workshops, knows what an adventurous poetic spirit she possesses. That spirit permeates every page of her just-released poetry collection, Carpathia. Here are some recent kudos for Carpathia. On the blog Writing the Polish Diaspora, we read, "Cecilia's poems are like those stories. They takes you by the hand and ask you to rest and breathe and listen to the songs in the wind, the voices from the past and the voices from faraway telling...

With 33 years of publishing under our belt, BOA has accumulated rich archives of letters, reviews, and miscellaneous literary riches. We thought it would be fun to share some of these classics with you. "BOA Classics" will be a trip back in time and also a chance to remember some treasures of American and international literature. Enjoy!

[caption id="attachment_51" align="aligncenter" width="249" caption="1977 NBCC Nomination for The Fuhrer Bunker "][/caption] Purchase The Fuhrer Bunker [Here]

BOA authors are everywhere! Bookstores, colleges, arts centers, museums... wherever there's a venue for a literary performance, a BOA author will turn up there (a few have even been known to read in living rooms... and one in particular is quite fond of pool halls). We do our best to track their movements and post them in the Author Appearances page on our website - consider it our BOA GPS. So take a look and see when and where a BOA author is coming to your town. Then go listen to them, meet them, have them sign your books... we...

BOA will accept submissions for the Lannan Translations Series during the month of November, 2009. Please read and follow the below guidelines when submitting. The Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe, New Mexico is funding six new collections of contemporary international poetry published by BOA Editions in 2009-2011. The funds support production costs and author and translator royalties. BOA Editions is grateful to the Lannan Foundation for its support of poetry and the art of translation. Lannan Translations Selection Series Submission Guidelines WE DO NOT ACCEPT ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS AT ANY TIME Submit only one book-length, complete manuscript at a time. If...