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It's time to announce our newest recipient of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize!

Congratulations to our winner: Alejandro Lucero!
We would also like to congratulate our runners-up: Gerardo Pacheco and Chukwuemeka Nome!

Pre-order on boaeditions.org or...if you'll be at AWP...stop by booth 1163 and grab yourself a copy!

Pre-orders are shipping out!🥳Purchase yourself a copy on our website, OR stop by our booth at AWP. Booth #1163.

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Happy Black History Month! This week our featured book is AT THE GATE: UNCOLLECTED POEMS 1987-2010 by Lucille Clifton, edited by Kazim Ali.

For more on AT THE GATE, check out our blog: www.boaeditions.org/blogs/main

Leigh Lucas’s SPLASHED THINGS, selected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, is out on April 7! Get your copy at boaeditions.org, and swipe for suggestions to read until then!

“Craig Morgan Teicher makes poetry the way William Carlos Williams did, out of his life, his love, and his love of literature, yes. Aware of how the intense now has already turned into the abstracted then." —Bin Ramke, author of Earth on Earth

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Happy Black History Month! This week our featured book is SECOND NATURE by Chaun Ballard.

For more on SECOND NATURE, access our blog at boaeditions.org, or click on the link in our bio!

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Looking for a Valentine's Day listen? 🎧️ 💕 Check out some of our audiobooks at the link below!

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AT THE GATE gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of her life. This incredible collection, edited by Kazim Ali, comes out April 14! Can't wait? Swipe to see some titles you can check out in the meantime!

“Craig Morgan Teicher has picked the bones out of what once was a memoir and used its bones to build a tower so delicate and high and magnificent...” —Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Happily

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Pre-order on boaeditions.org

Leigh Lucas's stunning collection, SPLASHED THINGS, is available for pre-order now on boaeditions.org!

Boa is celebrating Black History Month! Check out these titles by some of our featured Black authors by going to the link in our description. Swipe to see audiobooks, too!

📖 You can read this new exclusive interview with James Ciano, author of THE COMMITTEE OF MEN, on the Boa Blog today (link in bio)!

We are so thrilled that Aracelis Girmay has been selected as a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection for GREEN OF ALL HEADS!

The winner will be announced live at the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony, held at The Town Hall in New York City on March 31, 7:30pm.

Derrick Austin’s new collection THIS ELEGANCE has arrived in our office! How thrilled and eager we are to share it with you soon.🕯️

Signed paperbacks and hardbacks available for a limited time!

Something special is coming very soon. ✨ We’re counting down the days until we can hold SPLASHED THINGS by Leigh Lucas and share this powerful, resonant collection of poems with our readers and the wider world. We can’t wait for you to experience it!

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The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection is given annually to a poet whose distinguished collection of poetry, published in the applicable calendar year, represents a notable and accomplished literary presence. Congratulations to Aracelis Girmay for being longlisted!

We are thrilled to announce this year's selected manuscript for the Blessing the Boats Selections: Jordan E. Franklin's MAKE IT TO THE END (OF THE MOVIE), selected by Evie Shockley!

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LAST CALL to submit your manuscript for consideration for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize! Submittable closes tomorrow- don't wait!

🎯 Prize Details:
- Winning manuscript published by BOA Editions in Spring 2027
- $1,000 honorarium

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