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Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than thirty volumes including six collections of poetry from BOA Editions: Sidekick (2026), Red Suitcase (1994), Fuel (1998), You & Yours (2005), Transfer (2011), and The Tiny Journalist (2019). She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Witter Bynner Fellow. Her numerous awards include a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, the Patterson Poetry Prize, four Pushcart Prizes, the Robert Creeley Prize the Betty Prize from Poets House for her service to poetry, and the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters. She served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2010–2015, and in May 2019 she was named the 2019–2021 Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.

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Naomi Shihab Nye

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Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than thirty volumes including six collections of poetry from BOA Editions: Sidekick (2026), Red…

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Spring Book Bundle

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Spring Book Bundle

Welcome Spring Book Bundlers! With this one-time purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's spring season. This Spring Book Bundle…

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Boa Book Lovers Subscription

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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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This New and Poisonous Air

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This New and Poisonous Air

She admits she is pleased when the new placard is raised, “Madame Tussaud’s House of Wax.” She stands in the crowd with François at…

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The Committee of Men

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The Committee of Men

James Ciano’s debut collection, The Committee of Men, explores the cycles of violence men inflict on one another and themselves, examining how silence, shame,…

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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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Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience

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Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience

Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience is an anthology comprised of poems by physicians and medical students chronicling their unique, often harrowing…

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Small Gods of Grief

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Small Gods of Grief

Signed copies available in limited supply In Small Gods of Grief, Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with…

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Flowers of a Moment

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Flowers of a Moment

Winner of the 2007 Northern California Book Award in Translation Flowers of a Moment, Ko Un's latest treasure trove, is a recital of a…

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