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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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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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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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This New and Poisonous Air
Fiction · Featured

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
Nonfiction · Featured

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
Poetry · Featured

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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