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🖊️ As we approach the first releases of our Fall 2026 season, we're celebrating all the small moments that make 50 years of Boa so special. Across poetry and fiction, from writers to readers, we're so grateful for all we've accomplished so far and that we get to continue building this legacy with you all.

To join the chorus and ensure Boa can continue bringing vital voices to a world of readers for another 50 years, please visit the link in bio and consider contributing to our Raise Your Voice! Capital Campaign. 🧾

We're just ONE MONTH away from the publication date of Jenny Browne's lyrical fifth collection, I Am Trying to Love the Whole World! While we wait, we thought we'd share some other titles that would make a great pair!

In this collection Browne fearlessly holds grief without sentimentality and beauty without denial. For nearly a year, Browne began each poem with the line “I am trying to love the whole world,” letting it guide her through loss, love, and survival.
The result is a striking meditation on human fragility and the sustaining power of art, even as life—and the world around us—can be made and unmade in an instant.

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These graphics don’t begin to capture every theme and idea explored across each collection, but we wanted to offer a small snapshot of what’s to come. 📚

Publication dates are just around the corner! Pre-order your copies today at boaeditions.org.

Submissions for Boa's 26th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize are open now through November 30th! This year, we're delighted to announce acclaimed poet Jennifer Chang as judge. Her books include An Authentic Life, Some Say the Lark, and The History of Anonymity.

On top of being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Chang has received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Library of Virginia Award in Poetry, the Levinson Prize from Poetry, and fellowships from the Elizabeth Murray Artists Residency, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She currently teaches at the University of Texas in Austin.

The winner of the 26th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize will be announced in Spring 2027. Eligibility requirements and submission guidelines can be found on our website at boaeditions.org/submissions.

The Sealey Challenge live and so is our SUMMER SALE! We hope you consider purchasing some Boa books or book bundles for your reading list! Visit us online at boaeditions.org.

Pre-order Naomi Shihab Nye's upcoming release, Sidekick, during our SUMMER SALE while it lasts! Visit boaeditions.org to pre-order today.

“Bone Symphony is a major work which carries into print more than I knew could be carried into print. I am startled, actually, by the immediacy of the voices here and the breathtaking ways that Michelle Phương Hồ works in language to contend with the ongoing catastrophes, as she describes it, of colonialism and imperialist war in Vietnam. Reckoning with what is unutterable, this poet makes a sound that swerves—unruled, capacious. I am breaking into something else to read these paths.” —Aracelis Girmay, author of GREEN OF ALL HEADS

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Medbh McGuckian discusses Jenny Browne's upcoming release, I Am Trying to Love the Whole World:

“Like Emily getting up early to compose verses, like Tennyson mourning Arthur Hallam inordinately, or like someone accidentally telling the truth, we learn here that if you stare at any word long enough it burns. To compose, we learn, is to arrange unequal things, like your laugh and an ambulance, like a thin cardigan of sun, like the varicose afternoons of the horizon herself, like the pained v***a of Killary Harbour.” —Medbh McGuckian, author of The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems

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