BOA Blog

[caption id="attachment_444" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Ángela Hernández Núñez. BOA poet."][/caption] On their website, the online journal Molossus describes itself as: "an online broadside of world literature. We publish original interviews, reviews, essays, reportage, & more. We reprint selected work, too. We publish interviews & reviews on a weekly basis, with a commitment to contributing toward the transatlantic and English-language diaspora dialogue. We are especially keen to review literature in translation & book arts editions of contemporary literature." Molossus has reviewed some BOA books in the past and we're thrilled that they picked up on our newest translation, Praises & Offenses: Three...

[caption id="attachment_369" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Naomi Shihab Nye. BOA Poet."][/caption] The "Poetry Everywhere" series features short poetry films of poets reading their own work, animated interpretations of much-loved poems, and celebrities reading personal favorites. The videos are produced by WGBH and David Grubin Productions, filmmaker Leita Luchetti, and student filmmakers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's docUWM media center. They are housed online at the Poetry Foundation's website: www.poetryfoundation.org Here's a wonderful short film featuring BOA poet Naomi Shihab Nye and highlighting her poem "One Boy Told Me". Watch the film here: [Naomi Shihab Nye Video]

[caption id="attachment_433" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Approx likeness of BOA copier. "][/caption] Like most organizations we at BOA rely heavily on our photocopier for our day-to-day operations. We love our photocopier and treat it with the utmost respect and reverence it deserves. We are constantly stroking its ego, telling it how much it means to us and that we could not possibly survive without it. We thought we had a “mutual understanding” that we were in an exclusive relationship. Our copier, it turns out, has other ideas. For reasons unbeknownst to us, it wants out. It has shut down and refuses to...

[caption id="attachment_428" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Matthew Shenoda. BOA poet."][/caption] BOA poet Matthew Shenoda (Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone) also serves as CalArts' first Assistant Provost for Equity and Diversity. A major position with a big mission. To kick off Black History Month, Matthew wrote a blog for CalArts and based it around BOA poet (and newest Frost Medal Award winner) Lucille Clifton and her poem "jasper texas 1998" which appeared in Lucille's National Book Award winning collection, Blessing the Boats. Read Matthew's entry here [What Black History Month Means to me]

[caption id="attachment_424" align="alignleft" width="194" caption="Peter Makuck. BOA Poet."][/caption] We always knew that BOA poet Peter Makuck was a major outdoorsman. His forthcoming collection, Long Lens: New & Selected Poems, includes poems about scuba diving, skiing, fishing, jogging... all sorts of good, healthy, outdoorsy activities. But muskrat trapping? That was a new one to us! Read the fascinating interview with Peter Makuck posted at the Sewanee website and find out why Peter's son called him a "psycho" and why Ted Kooser told Peter he was lucky to have grown up when he did. And, of course, get the lowdown on the...