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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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Chen Chen
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Chen Chen

Chen Chen was born in Xiamen, China, and grew up in Massachusetts. His debut poetry collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be…

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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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Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories
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Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories

  Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate histories, concentrated and impressionistic renderings of the life that surrounds us, just under the surface. Grand scale…

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Blood on the Leaves
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Blood on the Leaves

Blood on the Leaves by Hope Wabuke is a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural…

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Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words
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Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in Their Own Words

Signed copies available in limited supply “Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain what a poem says is…

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A Matter of Blue
Poetry · Featured

A Matter of Blue

Translated from the French with an Introduction by Dawn Cornelio, A Matter of Blue has gone through multiple French printings and is noted poet,…

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Sleeping with Houdini
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Sleeping with Houdini

Signed copies available in limited supply Nin Andrews starts from the premise that life on Earth is suffering, and that a large part of…

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Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs
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Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs

"The poems in this collection, Miyhar of Damascus, His Songs (Aghânî Mihyâr al-dimashqî,) established a new direction in Arabic poetry, comparable to that series…

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