These short story collections feature voices more concerned with the artfulness of their writing than the twists and turns of plot, and have gone on to bring new and important attention to this underserved literary genre.īOA Editions is the recipient of a 2001 New York State Governor's Arts Award for overall artistic excellence, the only New York State not-for-profit literary publisher to receive such an honor.Ĭreated in the 1970s by artist and professor Mirko Pylyshenko, the BOA Editions logo is a linoleum block print rendering of Orpheus-the greatest poet and musician of Greek mythology-playing his lyre. Initiated in 2007, BOA's American Reader Series has published more than 20 fiction collections. In 2012, BOA published The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton: 1965-2010, the culmination of the revered poet's 40-year career, combining all of Lucille Clifton’s published collections with 69 previously unpublished poems. The Terrible Stories was a finalist for the 1996 National Book Award. Two of her BOA poetry collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 and Next: New Poems, were chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 she was the first author to have two books of poetry chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize within the same year. In 2000, she won the National Book Award for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000. Clifton was awarded the 2010 Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement posthumously from the Poetry Society of America, and was the 2007 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from The Poetry Foundation. Lucille Clifton is another prominent poet on BOA's roster. He went on to publish four more books with BOA, and his poetry is currently taught in many university courses. One year later, BOA published Rose by Li-Young Lee, who at that time was an unknown poet. Yin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985. In 1984, BOA published Carolyn Kizer's Yin, a collection of poems that had been turned down by nearly every major publishing house. The Fuhrer Bunker received tremendous critical attention and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, optioned for the stage by Joseph Papp, and produced by Wynn Handman for The American Place Theater. The first publication bearing the BOA imprint was The Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress by W. Poulin, Jr., BOA has published more than 300 books of American poetry, poetry-in-translation, and short fiction. Founded in 1976 by the late poet, editor, and translator A.
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