Publishing a new collection of literary work that is trauma-themed—even one as deftly executed as One Wild Word Away—is not without risk. The prominence of trauma as an animating force in contemporary literature has divided critics and readers alike. There is ex facie merit in the views expressed on both sides of that debate.
As I searched the wide web many months ago for publishers offering internships near me, I discovered Boa Editions, a nonprofit publisher of poetry and literature currently celebrating fifty years..
Boa is proud to present our roundup of book reviews from Summer 2026. Check out the reviews below to see what people are saying about Boa’s talented authors! Splashed Things..
What’s one thing every reader loves? If you said to get lost in a book with a cozy chair and music to match, we’re on the same page. Introducing a..
Born in Los Ángeles, California, Yaccaira Salvatierra is a poet, translator, and dedicated educator teaching for over 20 years while raising her two sons…
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Welcome Fall Book Bundlers! With this purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's current fall season along with a few…
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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…
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Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters, Jessica Treat's third collection of stories, shows her to be as much a master of the short-short story form…
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August, September, October is a deep, vulnerable meditation on fatherhood, time passing, and survival in a world reshaped by crisis. In two long, diaristic…
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In After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches, renowned poet W.D. Snodgrass offers his frank and evocative essays on his life as a student, lover, son, husband and poet.…
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Translated from the French with an Introduction by Dawn Cornelio, A Matter of Blue has gone through multiple French printings and is noted poet,…
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Signed paperback and hardcover copies available in limited supplies Christopher Kennedy's poetry is funny, deadpan, self-effacing and revelatory in the way of a man…
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Winner of the 2007 Northern California Book Award in Translation Flowers of a Moment, Ko Un's latest treasure trove, is a recital of a…
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