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[caption id="attachment_83" align="alignleft" width="195" caption="BOA Open House During Holiday Gala"][/caption] This weekend is the big Holiday Gala shindig here at Anderson Alley. All four floors of the building are open and you can browse around, chat with all the artists, listen to live music on every floor, and - of course - get a start on your holiday shopping. BOA will be open both days and all staff and many board members will be here too. As a special bonus, we'll be hosting a brief poetry reading from 7:30-8PM featuring four talented young poets from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)....

For the past 20 years, BOA poet Michael Blumenthal (AND, 2009), has written a "Thanksgiving/Christmas/Chanukah/New Year's poem" which he sends to friends and family. This year, Michael has graciously allowed us to post the poem and share it with all of you - our BOA friends and family. So here is "Be Kind" by Michael Blumenthal. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you from all of us. Be Kind Not merely because Henry James said there were but four rules of life— be kind be kind be kind be kind—but because it’s good for the soul, and, what’s more, for others,...

You ask & we deliver! Fred Courtright of [The Permissions Company] has been handling BOA's permission requests for many years. If you want to [reprint] a BOA poem for an anthology, book, course packet, etc. then you'll eventually talk to Fred. But Fred lives in Pennsylvania and BOA is way over here in Rochester, NY. So, even though he's an indispensable part of our organization, Fred has never actually seen the BOA office! Fred sent a "comment" after one of our recent blog entries asking for photos of the BOA office. It occurred to us that other people might be...

BOA is housed in a big funky building that used to be a shoe factory. Now it's home to some of the most talented artists in Rochester - and to us! Each December, the building holds a Holiday Gala and all the artists throw open their doors to display and sell their work. There is live music, snacks and beverages, and every kind of artwork you can imagine (pottery, sculpture, fine art jewelry, textiles, paintings, photography...).BOA also takes the opportunity to hold an open house during the Holiday Gala. All our books are on display and all the staff and...

BOA authors are everywhere! Bookstores, colleges, arts centers, museums... wherever there's a venue for a literary performance, a BOA author will turn up there (a few have even been known to read in living rooms... and one in particular is quite fond of pool halls). We do our best to track their movements and post them in the Author Appearances page on our website - consider it our BOA GPS. So take a look and see when and where a BOA author is coming to your town. Then go listen to them, meet them, have them sign your books... we...