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Positive Blatherings host Scott Fitzgerald interviews Boa Publisher and Executive Director, Peter Conners, in an episode entitled “The Deadhead Running the Poetry Press That Put Rochester on the Map”. Peter..
Rochester, NY. March 2nd, 2026—Boa Editions is proud to announce that Alejandro Lucero of Baltimore, MD is the winner of the 25th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His winning..
One of my favorite poems ever is Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats.” I love everything about this poem—its simplicity, its wishfulness, and its ability to dive below the depths of..
The first thing I notice about Chaun Ballard’s Second Nature is how formally ambitious it is—the first poem, “A Poem Ending with a Strambotto wherein I Include an Extra Line..
Aracelis Girmay’s Green of All Heads is a truly astounding journey past mortality, to a realm beyond simple grief. In this book, Girmay takes us by the hand and leads..
James Ciano holds an MFA from New York University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California. He has received scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center..
Jennie Malboeuf is the author of jump the gun (BOA Editions, 2025), and God had a body, awarded the 2019 Blue Light Books Prize…
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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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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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Winner of the BOA SHORT FICTION PRIZE Recommended in The Washington Post’s 2017 SUMMER BOOK LIST Gravity Changes is a collection of fantastical, off-beat stories that view the…
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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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The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone is a Midwestern mythology that celebrates facts, fiction,…
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In To Get Here, Wendy Mnookin takes us into a family transformed by the unexpected–a child in danger. Using shifting chronology and different voices,…
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Postcards from the Interior is a collection of postcard poems written from different geographical locations and varied states of heart and mind. The first section,…
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The poems in I Don’t Believe in Ghosts come from Meduza, a collection Zeqo wrote roughly between 1970-1974, that challenged some of the core…
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