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Caw by Michael Waters

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. In passionate poems about sin, […]

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Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. Barbara Jane Reyes answers the […]

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Mother Country by Elana Bell

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. For a noontime event, your Zoom link will be sent the day before; for an evening event, between 5:15 pm and one hour before it starts. Admission to Tuesdays with BOA Editions is free, but you're encouraged to consider making […]

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The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone by Michael Martone

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. For a noontime event, your Zoom link will be sent the day before; for an evening event, between 5:15 pm and one hour before it starts. Admission to Tuesdays with BOA Editions is free, but you're encouraged to consider making […]

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Rick Bursky: Let’s Become a Ghost Story

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. TUSEDAYS WITH BOA Rick Bursky will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners. Rick Bursky’s latest poetry collection reaches into the peculiarities of human relationships with emotional accuracy, charm, and a touch of surrealism. In poems […]

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John Gallaher: Brand New Spacesuit

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. TUESDAYS WITH BOA John Gallaher will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners. In Brand New Spacesuit, John Gallaher writes with honesty, humor, and tenderness about caring for his aging parents. These poems offer snapshots of […]

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Matt Morton: Improvisation Without Accompaniment

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. TUESDAYS WITH BOA Matt Morton will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners. Selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 18th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Matt Morton’s debut poetry collection Improvisation Without Accompaniment […]

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Mark Polanzak: The OK End of Funny Town

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. TUESDAYS WITH BOA Mark Polanzak will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners. The stories in Mark Polanzak’s BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning The OK End of Funny Town stitch fantastic situations into the drab fabric of […]

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Kathryn Nuernberger: Rue

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. TUESDAYS WITH BOA Kathryn Nuernberger will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners. In this fiercely feminist ecopoetic collection, Kathryn Nuernberger reclaims love and resilience in an age of cruelty. As the speaker—an artist and intellectual—finds […]

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Deborah Paredez: Year of the Dog

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. TUESDAYS WITH BOA Deborah Paredez will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners. In the tradition of women as the unsung keepers of history, Deborah Paredez’s  second poetry collection tells her story as a Latina daughter […]

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Craig Morgan Teicher: Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. TUESDAYS WITH BOA Craig Morgan Teicher will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners.   Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winning poet (2018) and nationally recognized literary critic Craig Morgan Teicher’s Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey is a […]

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Justin Jannise: How to be Better by Being Worse

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. TUESDAYS WITH BOA Justin Jannise will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners.   Justin Jannise turns the self-help manual on its head in his Poulin Prize-winning debut collection. His poems flout, subvert, question, and ignore […]

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Kendra DeColo: I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. Kendra DeColo will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners.   Kendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as heroic, brutal, and hardcore with poems that interrogate patriarchal narratives about childbirth, postpartum healing, and motherhood through […]

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Rachel Mennies: The Naomi Letters

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. Rachel Mennies will be in conversation with BOA Editions Director of Development and Communications Genevieve Hartman   Buy your books at Ampersand and join the conversation: The Naomi Letters The Glad Hand of God   Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The […]

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E.C. Osondu: Alien Stories

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Scroll down and select “Get Tickets” to receive a Zoom link to this virtual event. E.C. Osondu will be in conversation with BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners.   Check out Alien Stories at Ampersand Books   Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his […]

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Erika Meitner: Useful Junk

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

In this new collection, Meitner explores memory, passion, and the various ways the body sees and is seen. With dauntless vulnerability, she taps into the metaphysical, the ekphrastic, the sensual, and the ordinary moments of life, remaining porous and open to the world, and always returning to the desires rooted deep within the self as […]

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Danni Quintos: Two Brown Dots

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

This debut collection of poems explores what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic, Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky. Quintos teases the line between tokenism and representation, between assimilation and belonging; and offers a potent antidote to the assumption that “American” means “white.” Encompassing a journey from girlhood to motherhood, Two Dots  […]

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Renia White: Casual Conversation

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Renia White’s debut poetry collection strikes up a conversation, considering what’s being said, what isn’t, and where it all comes from. From her vantage point of Black womanhood, she probes the norms and mores of everyday interactions. In observations, insights, and snippets of speech, these poems look to the unspoken thoughts behind our banter, questioning […]

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Heather Sellers: Field Notes from the Flood Zone

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Born and raised in Florida, Heather Sellers grew up in an extraordinarily difficult home. The natural world provided a life-giving respite from domestic violence. Sprung from her daily observation journals, haunted by ghosts from the past, Field Notes from the Flood Zone is an elegy for the two great shaping forces in a life: heartbreaking […]

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Dustin Pearson: A Season in Hell with Rimbaud

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

The poems in Dustin Pearson’s A Season in Hell with Rimbaud form an allegorical travelog chronicling two brothers’ mutual descent into hell. When the older brother runs off, the younger brother begins roaming Hell’s different landscapes in search of him. Pearson leads his speakers on a speculative, epistolary journey through the nether realm. “Pearson is […]

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Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes: Are We Ever Our Own

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Moving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in Are We Ever Our Own trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family. Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. Linked by theme and complex familial […]

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Chen Chen

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Chen Chen will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions. Portrait by Margarita Corporan In his highly anticipated second collection of poems, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what […]

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Cynthia Dewi Oka

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Cynthia Dewi Oka will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions. In her fourth poetry collection, Cynthia Dewi Oka performs a lyric accounting of the anti-Communist genocide of 1965, which, led by the Indonesian military and with American assistance, erased and devastated millions of lives in […]

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Matt Donovan

Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NY, United States

Matt Donovan will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions. The Dug-Up Gun Museum confronts our country’s obsession with guns to explore America’s deep-seated political divisions and issues linked to violence, race, power, and privilege. Taking its title from an actual museum located in Wyoming, this […]

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Craig Morgan Teicher

Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NY, United States

Craig Morgan Teicher will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions. A seminal voice in American prose poetry from the sixties onward, Russell Edson’s (1935-2014) career is surveyed in a single volume edited for our times, presenting a new and contemporary view of a poet of […]

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Luther Hughes

Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NY, United States

Luther Hughes will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions. A Shiver in the Leaves is stunningly cinematic in its layered portrayal of the never-ending dualities of a queer Black poet’s life in the city. Hughes's interrogation of selfhood renders a sharply intimate and viscerally powerful […]

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Alicia Mountain: Four in Hand

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language and white space equally captivate with their sparsity and abundance as Mountain pursues the implications of national political […]

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Margaret Ray: Good Grief, the Ground

Selected by Stephanie Burt as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Good Grief, the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted onto women through personal, political, and national lenses. Moving between adolescence and adulthood, Ray alternates between dark humor and heart-wrenching honesty to explore grief, anxiety, queer longing, girlhood, escape from the […]

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Jessica Q. Stark: Buffalo Girl

Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women’s bodies. Interspersed throughout this hybrid work are a series of collaged photographs featuring Stark’s mother’s black-and-white photography from Vietnam, beautifully and hauntingly layered over various natural landscapes—lush tropical plants, dense forests, pockets of […]

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Mahtem Shiferraw: Nomenclatures of Invisibility

Shiferraw calls us to carve out space for the multitudes of selves we carry when we migrate across boundaries of body, language, and land. With momentum, giving name to everything in her path from the longing that comes with migration to her beloved eucalyptus tree, she blurs physical and temporal borders, paying homage to ancestors […]

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Jeannine Hall Gailey: Flare, Corona

740 University Ave, Rochester, NY, United States

Against a constellation of solar weather events and an evolving pandemic, Flare, Corona paints a self-portrait of the ways in which we prevail and persevere through health adversities while facing an uncertain future. Gailey juxtaposes eclipses and hurricanes with a body’s many medical challenges, including neurological symptoms, highlighting the miraculous while melding the personal with […]

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George Looney: The Visibility of Things Long Submerged

Dripping with Southern gothic flavors, The Visibility of Things Long Submerged gazes at the holy and the obscene while plumbing gritty secrets of the human heart. With swamps, alligators, revival tents, faith healers, sex, death, guilt, sin and snakes, Looney leads us through a dark landscape brimming with the miraculous and the peculiar alike. Densely […]

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India Lena Gonzalez, fox woman get out!

Writers & Books Streaming Event NY, United States

Moving through themes of lineage, twinship, femininity and masculinity, reclamation of Indigeneity, dance, gender roles, and longing, Gonzalez's poems are a crescendo on the page. Part ecstatic elegy, part spell, this is a betwixt poetics, a kaleidoscopic, disruptive, and meditative work. “India Lena González’s debut is made of exhilarating body language. Her serpentine stanzas, upper- […]

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Sean Thomas Dougherty, Death Prefers the Minor Keys

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

In his 20th book, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose sequence reflecting on disability, chronic illness, addiction, survival, love, and parenthood. Death Prefers the Minor Keys is, most of all, a love letter to Dougherty’s wife and a chronicle of her courage and complicity in the face of long-term illness and addiction. Ultimately, […]

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Danielle Cadena Deulen, Matt Donovan & Lindsay Bernal

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Reading & Book Signing Divided into four sections and shaped by female-identified embodiment, Danielle Cadena Deulen’s Desire Museum touches on lost love and friendship, climate crisis, lesbian relationships, and the imprisonment of children at the U.S.-Mexico border. “At once dreamlike and insistently clear(Chelsea Rathburn),” these poems trace the pleasures and pitfalls of sex; the anxieties […]

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Joe Baumann, Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere To Go

Writers & Books Streaming Event NY, United States

Thirteen surreal short stories utilize the strange and the bizarre as a backdrop for explorations of loneliness, queer coming-of-age, self-discovery, and loss. Baumann’s tender vignettes of love, anger, grief, and desire are a stunning ode to the places and people that can give us solace within an absurd and chaotic world. Joe Baumann is the […]

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Willie Lin, Conversation Among Stones

Writers & Books Streaming Event NY, United States

Through fields of wild grass, restless seascapes, and cities tinged with sand, Willie Lin's debut collection of poetry questions what can remain and what must be pared away in our search for truth. Conversation Among Stones speaks both to the inanimate— misremembered histories, photographs, the dead—and to the voices in our daily lives that reverberate […]

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Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Transitory

Writers & Books Streaming Event NY, United States

Epistolary in nature, these commemorative poems  are “gleaned sketches” attempting to reconstruct lives and deaths from the typically scarce information made available on the internet. Seen through the lenses of whiteness and privilege from the last quarter of a lifetime, the poems navigate the desire to be at home in our bodies, to be loved […]

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