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We are thrilled to announce that Chen Chen's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities has been selected as a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. “Celebrating our 30th year of Lambda Literary Award finalists is to recognize that this organization has been at the center of contemporary queer literature for decades,” said Lambda Literary Executive Director Tony Valenzuela. “This year is no different with another stellar list of authors demonstrating through their work that LGBTQ books tell richly textured stories about who we are in all our incredible diversity.” Chen Chen's When...

The Over the Rainbow committee of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association announced last week that Chen Chen's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities has been selected as a top twelve title in their annual Over the Rainbow List for 2018. The Over the Rainbow List includes the committee's top recommendations of books by GLBT authors. George Martinez writes on behalf of the committee: "After much reading and deliberation, we chose 39 titles in the category of literature and 42 in non-fiction to be included in the complete 2018...

Happy Birthday to the great Lucille Clifton! We here at BOA Editions are thrilled to have been her poetry publisher for many years, culminating in last year's publication of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010. A limited edition of the below broadsides were printed (and a handful are still available for sale) in honor of that publication. It feels like a fitting post for Lucille Clifton's birthday. We miss you, Lucille! For information on how to order a copy of this rare broadside, email Jenna Fisher at: fisher@boaeditions.org.

sorrow song for the eyes of the children, the last to melt, the last to vaporize, for the lingering eyes of the children, staring, the eyes of the children of buchenwald, of viet nam and johannesburg, for the eyes of the children of middle passage, for cherokee eyes, ethiopian eyes, russian eyes, american eyes, for all that remains of the children, their eyes, staring at us,      amazed to see the extraordinary evil in ordinary men.   --lucille clifton (1987)

It's been an amazing year for poetry and on top on our list has been the publication of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010. We're thrilled that the book has also been named at the top of Publishers Weekly's list! PW has just announced that The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton is one of their picks for The Best Books of 2012. In their announcement, PW describes the book as "One of the most significant books of poetry to come out in years, this is the life's work of a major poet who wrote with powerful anger about the...