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[caption id="attachment_360" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Santo Domingo Launch of Praises & Offenses"][/caption] BOA translator Judith Kerman just returned from the launch event for Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic held in Santo Domingo. The event featured Kerman alongside Praises & Offenses poets Angela Hernández Núñez and Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo (the third contributor, Aida Cartagena Portalatín, is deceased). Also in attendance were the Cultural Attache of the US Embassy and a literature official from the Ministry of Culture. For Spanish-speakers, there is an extensive article about the event here: TRES POETAS DOMINICANAS Judith Kerman has also agreed to guest-blog...

[caption id="attachment_354" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Lucille Clifton reading at 2007 Dine & Rhyme"][/caption] Each year, BOA hosts an event called Dine & Rhyme in Rochester, NY. It's a fundraising event - but it's also a chance to bring a BOA author to town and gather local BOA supporters all under one "tent." In 2007, Lucille Clifton was our featured BOA author (there was also an outstanding introductory reading by Poulin Prize-winning author Dan Albergotti). We captured the event on video and you can watch the whole thing at the below link. Enjoy! http://boaeditions.org/Video/LucilleCliftonFlash/LucilleClifton.html

[caption id="attachment_350" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Ruth Lilly, 1915-2009"][/caption] BOA extends our sympathies to the family and friends of Ruth Lilly. She was one of the greatest poetry patrons our country has known, and her generosity touched BOA as well as everyone in poetry. In 2007, Lucille Clifton received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious awards given to American poets and one of the largest literary honors for work in the English language. The award was wonderful recognition for Lucille (she was also the first African American woman to receive the honor) and for BOA as well. The...

[caption id="attachment_344" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter Books"][/caption] On December 25th, the New York Times ran an outstanding article on the translation publisher Open Letter Books (how's that for Christmas present?!). Here at BOA, we take pride in our fellow small publishers' successes: we're all in the trenches together, working to bring great literature into the larger cultural discussion. But we took particular pride in this article because Open Letter Books is located right here in Rochester, NY! Here's a little sample from the article: ROCHESTER — The publishing industry is in a tailspin; translated works account...

[caption id="attachment_340" align="alignleft" width="118" caption="The Boatloads"][/caption] BOA is back from holiday break & ready to zoom into the new year! Wonderful to come back to find a sharp review of The Boatloads from Galatea Resurrects: "With an irreverence bordering on blasphemy ('We want to find a higher intent/ a god to damn'), and a connectedness to the natural world rivaling none, Albergotti’s debut is a charged pastiche of imaginative genius, fiercely broken chips of song, and a strange peacefulness borne of surviving a treacherous journey only to find oneself washed up on foreign, or, with any luck, domestic shores." Read...