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A. Poulin, Jr.

A. Poulin, Jr.

Poet, translator, and editor A. Poulin, Jr. (1938–1996) was the founding publisher and president of BOA Editions, Ltd. His distinguished poetry translations include Rainier…

Aaron Zaritzky

Aaron Zaritzky

Aaron Zaritzky was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He graduated from the Creative Writing Workshop at Oberlin College and completed an MFA in Poetry…

Adam Giannelli

Adam Giannelli

Adam Giannelli is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Virginia, where he was a Hoyns Fellow in the MFA program. His…

Adam Hughes

Adam Hughes

Adam Hughes is a poet, writer, teacher, and performer living in Bedford, Virginia. Originally from central Ohio, he received an MFA in Creative Writing…

Adam McOmber

Adam McOmber

Adam McOmber is the author of My House Gathers Desires (BOA Editions, Fall 2017), The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012), and This New & Poisonous…

Adam Sorkin

Adam Sorkin

Adam J. Sorkin is a Professor of English at Penn State Delaware County. He has published eight previous translations of Romanian poetry including An…

Adnan Haydar

Adnan Haydar

Adnan Haydar is head of the Arabic section in the Department of Foreign Languages and professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University…

Adonis

Adonis

The pen-name Adonis, which Ali Ahmad Said began to use in the early 60s, refers to the mythological figures of the Mediterranean which interested…

Adrie Kusserow

Adrie Kusserow

Adrie Kusserow is a cultural anthropologist who works with Sudanese refugees in trying to build schools in war-worn South Sudan. Currently an associate professor…

Aida Cartagena Portalatín

Aida Cartagena Portalatín

Born in Moca, Santo Domingo in 1918, Aida Cartagena Portalatín is most widely known for her poetry, focusing on man's limitations in the struggle…

Aimee Parkison

Aimee Parkison

Aimee Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize. Parkison writes and publishes fiction…

Alan Michael Parker

Alan Michael Parker

Alan Michael Parker is the author of eight collections of poetry, including three from BOA Editions: The Vandals (1999), Love Song with Motor Vehicles…

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Michelle Phương Hồ
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Michelle Phương Hồ

Michelle Phương Hồ is the author of Bone Symphony (Boa Editions, 2026), chosen by Aracelis Girmay as a Blessing the Boats Selection. Her work…

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Boa Classic Book Bundle
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Boa Classic Book Bundle

With this one-time purchase you will receive a box of 5 best-selling titles from Boa with a few goodies from the publisher (broadsides, bookmarks,…

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Boa Book Lovers Subscription
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Boa Book Lovers Subscription

Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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Gratitude to Old Teachers
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Gratitude to Old Teachers

Available in limited quantity Gratitude to Old Teachers, poems by Robert Bly, with a frontispiece by Robert Marx, was issued in a limited edition of…

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Bone Symphony
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Bone Symphony

Michelle Phương Hồ’s Bone Symphony mines the wreckage of colonialism and imperialist warfare in Vietnam and attempts to reassemble the bones. Told in three movements…

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To Sound Like Yourself
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To Sound Like Yourself

In his first collection of essays on poetry in 27 years, W. D. Snodgrass goes after that seminal quality, the poet’s individual voice, that…

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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
Poetry · Featured

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Lucille Clifton, one of America's most important and distinguished poets, employs brilliantly honed language, stunning images,…

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Life Watch
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Life Watch

Signed copies available in limited supply Willis Barnstone’s Life Watch is an ambitious sequence of poems that begins in childhood and moves through Barnstone’s…

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The Hymns of Job
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The Hymns of Job

Maya Bejerano has said that "Writing is a kind of pretending." That "Poetry gives verbal attire to an elusive and dark world. It's a…

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