Boa mourns the recent passing of James Long “Kip” Hale. A writer and longtime Boa supporter, Kip served as a founding member of Boa’s National Advisory Committee and served in that capacity for many years. Our heartfelt sympathies go out to Kip’s family and friends.
Naomi Shihab Nye on Sidekick How did writing this book help you survive? Reading and writing is a steadying force. When faced with overwhelming grief (genocide, loss of a child) which..
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..
Jennie Malboeuf is the author of jump the gun (BOA Editions, 2025), and God had a body, awarded the 2019 Blue Light Books Prize…
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Welcome Spring Book Bundlers! With this one-time purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's spring season. This Spring Book Bundle…
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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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Winner of the BOA SHORT FICTION PRIZE Recommended in The Washington Post’s 2017 SUMMER BOOK LIST Gravity Changes is a collection of fantastical, off-beat stories that view the…
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Michelle Phương Hồ’s Bone Symphony mines the wreckage of colonialism and imperialist warfare in Vietnam and attempts to reassemble the bones. Told in three movements…
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The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone is a Midwestern mythology that celebrates facts, fiction,…
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In To Get Here, Wendy Mnookin takes us into a family transformed by the unexpected–a child in danger. Using shifting chronology and different voices,…
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Postcards from the Interior is a collection of postcard poems written from different geographical locations and varied states of heart and mind. The first section,…
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The poems in I Don’t Believe in Ghosts come from Meduza, a collection Zeqo wrote roughly between 1970-1974, that challenged some of the core…
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