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Brand New Spacesuit (2020) John Gallaher	In a Landscape (2014) John Gallaher
Nomina (2008) Karen Volkman	The Orchard (2004) Brigit Pegeen Kelly

 

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BOA Editions General Catalogue
 

2021
Tenderness, by Derrick Austin
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World, by Kendra DeColo
How to Be Better by Being Worse, by Justin Jannise
The Naomi Letters, by Rachel Mennies
Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey, by Craig Morgan Teicher

2020
Mother Country, by Elana Bell
Let's Become a Ghost Story, by Rick Bursky
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton, by Lucille Clifton
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton, by Lucille Clifton
Brand New Spacesuit, by John Gallaher
Improvisation Without Accompaniment, by Matt Morton
Rue, by Kathryn Nuernberger
Year of the Dog, by Deborah Paredez
The OK End of Funny Town, by Mark Polanzak
Letters to a Young Brown Girl, by Barbara Jane Reyes
Caw, by Michael Waters

2019
The Human Half, by Deborah Brown
Night Angler, by Geffrey Davis
Tracing the Horse, by Diana Marie Delgado
Documents, by Jan-Henry Gray
All Its Charms, by Keetje Kuipers
The Tiny Journalist, by Naomi Shihab Nye
On the Shores of Welcome Home, by Bruce Weigl
Cyborg Detective, by Jillian Weise

2018
Rail, by Kai Carlson-Wee
Cenzontle, by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
The Second O of the Sorrow, by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Clues from the Animal Kingdom, by Christopher Kennedy
In Country, by Hugh Martin
Holy Moly Carry Me, by Erika Meitner
Dresses from the Old Country, by Laura Read

2017
Bye-Bye Land, by Christian Barter
All Souls Returned, by Bruce Beasley
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, by Chen Chen
Lighthouse for the Drowning, by Jawdat Fakhreddine
Sky Country, by Christine Kitano
The Smoke of Horses, by Charles Rafferty
The Living Theatre, by Bianca Tarozzi
The Trembling Answers, by Craig Morgan Teicher

2016
Trouble the Water, by Derrick Austin
This Number Does Not Exist, by Mangalesh Dabral
The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech, by Stephen Dobyns
The Black Maria, by Aracelis Girmay
Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin, by Janice N. Harrington
Mandatory Evacuation, by Peter Makuck
The End of Pink, by Kathryn Nuernberger
Seed in Snow, by Knuts Skujenieks
Whereso, by Karen Volkman
Celestial Joyride, by Michael Waters

2015
Why God Is Woman, by Nin Andrews
Shame | Shame, by Devin Becker
Fanny Says, by Nickole Brown
I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance, by Rick Bursky
Antidote for the Night, by Marsha de la O
Beautiful Wall, by Ray Gonzalez
Testament, by G. C. Waldrep

2014
Revising the Storm, by Geffrey Davis
All You Ask for Is Longing: New and Selected Poems, by Sean Thomas Dougherty
In a Landscape, by John Gallaher
The Chair, by Richard Garcia
The Keys to the Jail, by Keetje Kuipers
Copia, by Erika Meitner

2013
No Need of Sympathy, by Fleda Brown
Birth Marks, by Jim Daniels
Refuge, by Adrie Kusserow
The Stick Soldiers, by Hugh Martin
There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat a Stick With, by Michael Teig
The Book of Goodbyes, by Jillian Weise

2012
Theophobia, by Bruce Beasley
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, by Lucille Clifton
True Faith, by Ira Sadoff
To Keep Love Blurry, by Craig Morgan Teicher
Litany for the City, by Ryan Teitman

2011
Walking the Dog's Shadow, by Deborah Brown
Kingdom Animalia, by Aracelis Girmay
The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home, by Janice N. Harrington
Ennui Prophet, by Christopher Kennedy
Transfer, by Naomi Shihab Nye
Gospel Night, by Michael Waters

2010
Burning of the Three Fires, by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Chaos Is the New Class, by Wyn Cooper
Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line, by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Beautiful in the Mouth, by Keetje Kuipers
Long Lens: New and Selected Poems, by Peter Makuck
Diwata, by Barbara Jane Reyes
Cradle Book, by Craig Morgan Teicher

2009
And, by Michael Blumenthal
Sharp Stars, by Sharon Bryan
Cool Auditor, by Ray Gonzalez
Awayward, by Jennifer Kronovet
Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone, by Matthew Shenoda
Struggling Times, by Louis Simpson
Carpathia, by Cecilia Woloch

2008
The Boatloads, by Dan Albergotti
The Fortieth Day, by Kazim Ali
Voices, by Lucille Clifton
The Heaven-Sent Leaf, by Katy Lederer
The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, by Wendy Mnookin
Elephants & Butterflies, by Alan Michael Parker
Nomina, by Karen Volkman

2007
Sleeping with Houdini, by Nin Andrews
Broken Hallelujahs, by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, by Janice N. Harrington
Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death, by Christopher Kennedy
Slope of the Everlasting Child, by Laurie Kutchins
Disclamour, by G. C. Waldrep

2006
The Burning of Troy, by Richard Foerster
The Persistence of Objects, by Richard Garcia
Splendor, by Steve Kronen
Woman Crossing a Field, by Deena Linett
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems, by W. D. Snodgrass
Darling Vulgarity, by Michael Waters

2005
Postcards from the Interior, by Wyn Cooper
The Rooster's Wife, by Russell Edson
Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems, by Ray Gonzalez
Falling to Earth, by Tom Hansen
Off-Season in the Promised Land, by Peter Makuck
The Hoopoe's Crown, by Jacqueline Osherow
You and Yours, by Naomi Shihab Nye
American Children, by Jim Simmerman
The Eclipses, by David Woo

2004
Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey, by Crystal Bacon
Curious Conduct, by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Mercy, by Lucille Clifton
Desire Lines : new and selected poems, by Lola Haskins
Bright Hunger, by Mark Irwin
The Orchard, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Model Homes, by Wayne Koestenbaum
Angels for the Burning, by David Mura
Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey, by Barton Sutter

2003
Life Watch, by Willis Barnstone
Precipitates, by Debra Kang Dean
Is, by Wayne Dodd
Love Song with Motor Vehicles, by Alan Michael Parker
The Owner of the House : new collected poems, 1940-2001, by Louis Simpson
Big Back Yard, by Michael Teig
Late, by Cecilia Woloch

2002
Mules of Love, by Ellen Bass
Double Going, by Richard Foerster
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande, by Ray Gonzalez
Dumb Luck, by Sam Hamill
Hunting Down the Monk, by Adrie Kusserow
What He Took, by Wendy Mnookin
The Guests at the Gate, by Anthony Piccione

2001
Small Gods of Grief, by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Walking Light, by Stephen Dunn
Rancho Notorious, by Richard Garcia
An Unkindness of Ravens, by Meg Kearney
Book of My Nights, by Li-Young Lee
Rare Earths, by Deena Linett
Jam, by Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
Selected Poems, by A. Poulin, Jr.
Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies, by Charles Harper Webb

2000
Tell Me, by Kim Addonizio
Blessing the Boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000, by Lucille Clifton
White City, by Mark Irwin
Laugh at the End of the World : collected comic poems, 1969-1999, by Bill Knott
Smoke, by Dorianne Laux
The Daughters of Discordia, by Suzanne Owens
Parthenopi : new & selected poems, by Michael Waters

1999
Dusty Angel, by Michael Blumenthal
Cabato Sentora, by Ray Gonzalez
Living is What I Wanted : last poems, by David Ignatow
Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems, by David Ignatow
To Get Here, by Wendy Mnookin
The Vandals, by Alan Michael Parker
We Didn't Come Here for This: A Memoir in Poetry, by William Patrick
The Tiger Iris, by Joan Swift
Meteorology, by Alpay Ulku

1998
News of Home, by Debra Kang Dean
Trillium, by Richard Foerster
Gratitude, by Sam Hamill
Diana, Charles, & the Queen, by William Heyen
Plus Shipping, by Bob Hicok
At My Ease : uncollected poems of the fifties and sixties, by David Ignatow
Fuel, by Naomi Shihab Nye

1997
Jimmy & Rita, by Kim Addonizio
Holes the Crickets Have Eaten in Blankets : a sequence of poems, by Robert Bly
Radiography, by Bruce Bond
The Hour between Dog and Wolf, by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
The Night Path, by Laurie Kutchins
Against Distance, by Peter Makuck
Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum, by Michael Waters

1996
Shattering Air, by David Biespiel
The Terrible Stories, by Lucille Clifton
I Have Tasted the Apple, by Mary Crow
The Heat of Arrivals, by Ray Gonzalez
Crazy Horse in Stillness, by William Heyen
Quick, Now, Always, by Mark Irwin
Signatures, by Joseph Stroud

1995
Song, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Bruise Theory, by Natalie Kenvin
The Quicken Tree, by Bill Knott
These Upraised Hands, by William Patrick
For the Kingdom, by Anthony Piccione

1994
The Philosopher's Club, by Kim Addonizio
Day Has No Equal but Night, by Anne Hebert
What We Carry, by Dorianne Laux
Bell 8, by Rick Lyon
Red Suitcase, by Naomi Shihab Nye

1993
Gratitude to Old Teachers, by Robert Bly
Wordworks, by Richard Kostelanetz
Each in His Season, by W. D. Snodgrass
The Book of Names : new and selected poems, by Barton Sutter

1992
Hurricane Walk, by Diann Blakely
Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard, by Gerald Costanzo
Shenandoah, by Delmore Schwartz

1991
Quilting : poems, 1987-1990, by Lucille Clifton

1990
The Collected Poems of Isabella Gardner, by Isabella Gardner
Awake, by Dorianne Laux
The City in Which I Love You, by Li-Young Lee
The Sunken Lightship, by Peter Makuck

1989
Borders, by Mary Crow
Genesis, by Emanuel di Pasquale
John Logan, the collected poems, by John Logan
Roxa, by William Patrick

1987
Good Woman : poems and a memoir, 1969-1980, by Lucille Clifton
Next, by Lucille Clifton
Hyam Plutzik: The Collected Poems, by Hyam Plutzik

1986
Beings and Things on Their Own, by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
Rose, by Li-Young Lee
Seeing It Was So, by Anthony Piccione
Duhamel, by William Tremblay

1984
Yin, by Carolyn Kizer
Yin, by Carolyn Kizer

1983
People Live Here: Selected Poems, by Louis Simpson

1982
Where We Live, by Peter Makuck
Whomp and Moonshiver, by Thomas B. Whitbread

1979
Survivors, by Richard Eberhart
Eggs in the Lake, by Daniela Gioseffi
The Bridge of Change, by John Logan
Living with Distance, by Ralph J. Mills, Jr.
Armidale, by Louis Simpson
Not Just Any Death, by Michael Waters

1978
The Bridge of Change, by John Logan

1977
Along the Dark Shore, by Edward Byrne
Anchor Dragging, by Anthony Piccione
She, by M. L. Rosenthal
The Fuehrer Bunker : the complete cycle, by W. D. Snodgrass
Cedarhome, by Barton Sutter
Beast is a Wolf with Brown Fire, by Barry Wallenstein

BOA Editions's books have won the following awards:

2020
Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
Tenderness, by Derrick Austin
 

2019
Winner of Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award
Cenzontle, by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
 
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Improvisation Without Accompaniment, by Matt Morton
 
Winner of Housatonic Book Awards
The Second O of the Sorrow, by Sean Thomas Dougherty
 
Winner of Helen C. Smith Memorial Award
The Tiny Journalist, by Naomi Shihab Nye
 
Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
On the Shores of Welcome Home, by Bruce Weigl
 
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
How to Be Better by Being Worse, by Justin Jannise
 

2018
Winner of Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, by Chen Chen
 
Winner of James Laughlin Award
Night Angler, by Geffrey Davis
 
Winner of Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Trembling Answers, by Craig Morgan Teicher
 
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Documents, by Jan-Henry Gray
 

2017
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Cenzontle, by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
 
Winner of Poets & Writers Debut Poets
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, by Chen Chen
 
Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
Bye-Bye Land, by Christian Barter
 

2016
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, by Chen Chen
 

2015
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Trouble the Water, by Derrick Austin
 
Winner of James Laughlin Award
The End of Pink, by Kathryn Nuernberger
 
Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
Antidote for the Night, by Marsha de la O
 

2014
Winner of Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award
Birth Marks, by Jim Daniels
 
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Shame | Shame, by Devin Becker
 

2013
Winner of James Laughlin Award
The Book of Goodbyes, by Jillian Weise
 
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Revising the Storm, by Geffrey Davis
 
Winner of Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, by Lucille Clifton
 
Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
The Book of Goodbyes, by Jillian Weise
 

2012
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
The Stick Soldiers, by Hugh Martin
 

2011
Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
Kingdom Animalia, by Aracelis Girmay
 
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Litany for the City, by Ryan Teitman
 
Winner of Poets & Writers Debut Poets
Walking the Dog's Shadow, by Deborah Brown
 

2010
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Walking the Dog's Shadow, by Deborah Brown
 
Winner of Poets & Writers Debut Poets
Beautiful in the Mouth, by Keetje Kuipers
 

2009
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Beautiful in the Mouth, by Keetje Kuipers
 
Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
Sharp Stars, by Sharon Bryan
 

2008
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Awayward, by Jennifer Kronovet
 
Winner of Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, by Janice N. Harrington
 
Winner of Poets & Writers Debut Poets
The Boatloads, by Dan Albergotti
 

2007
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
The Boatloads, by Dan Albergotti
 

2006
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, by Janice N. Harrington
 

2005
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Falling to Earth, by Tom Hansen
 

2004
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
The Eclipses, by David Woo
 

2003
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey, by Crystal Bacon
 
Winner of Lambda Literary Awards
Mules of Love, by Ellen Bass
 

2002
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Big Back Yard, by Michael Teig
 
Winner of William Carlos Williams Award
Book of My Nights, by Li-Young Lee
 

2001
Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Hunting Down the Monk, by Adrie Kusserow
 

2000
Winner of National Book Award
Blessing the Boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000, by Lucille Clifton
 

1999
Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
Dusty Angel, by Michael Blumenthal
 

1997
Winner of Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
The Night Path, by Laurie Kutchins
 

1994
Winner of James Laughlin Award
Song, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
 
Winner of Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award
The Philosopher's Club, by Kim Addonizio
 

1990
Winner of James Laughlin Award
The City in Which I Love You, by Li-Young Lee
 

1985
Winner of Pulitzer Prize
Yin, by Carolyn Kizer
 

1982
Winner of Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Bridge of Change, by John Logan
 

Winner of Angles of Ascent (W. W. Norton, 2013)
Blessing the Boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000, by Lucille Clifton
 
Winner of Angles of Ascent (W. W. Norton, 2013)
Blessing the Boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000, by Lucille Clifton
 
Winner of Angles of Ascent (W. W. Norton, 2013)
Blessing the Boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000, by Lucille Clifton