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Hello readers! Every week, the BOA staff shares one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Mandatory Evacuation by Peter Makuck. Power Outage The room goes dark. Candles become the evening news, three wavering tongues telling about stillness and that bright moon in the window.

Hello readers! Every week, the BOA staff shares one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. For this week's poem, we'd like to share a special thank you to Bill Murray for performing Lucille Clifton's "Blessing the Boats" on CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. blessing the boats (at St. Mary's) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love you back       may you open your eyes to water...

Hello readers! Every week, the BOA staff shares one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Charles Rafferty's new collection The Smoke of Horses—now available in bookstores everywhere and on the BOA Bookstore! Leisure The darkness takes refuge beneath our bed again, and it doesn’t matterthat the sun has risen a minute sooner than it did the day before. Wehave curated a warmth merely by lying here, and we take turns hittingthe snooze button. The dog has not complained. The birds will not diedown. We wait for the eggs to cook themselves. Listen to this...

Hello readers! Every week, the BOA staff shares one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week's poem is from Bruce Beasley's forthcoming collection All Soul Parts Returned—in stores next week or available now from the BOA Bookstore! On Marriage I. Wind's the medium of air. It says what's in the air's stasis we'd never hear. In the sibilation of its leaving it says what air would say (the kinesis of that silence) if stationary atmosphere could scrape, stridulous, itself against its unmoving self. II. Wind's air that sensed a near hollow in the pressure and poured toward...