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By identifying, cultivating, and publishing both new and established poets and selecting authors of unique literary talent, Boa Editions brings high-quality literature to the public.

For Bruce M. Wright—a lawyer, judge, and poet who lived through Jim Crow—words held worldmaking force.

José Emilio Pacheco, one of Mexico’s most celebrated poets, rejected nostalgia even as he remained transfixed by the passage of time.

Foglifter Press centers the stories of those who are multi-marginalized, propelling diverse collective narratives into the future literary history. 

Street portraits and poetry depicting the unfolding nuances of under-heralded people’s veracity and beauty.

Disgusting, isn’t it, how much we want to be loved?

Surely the experience of immigration reinforced my predilections, but some people are simply born looking backward.

Where my ex deemed me unmaternal because of my writing, the opposite is true: I’m no good to anyone if I don’t preserve this one thing for myself.

There’s playfulness and a love of life set against the specter of death. 

Koneski’s contributions as a scholar, linguist, academic, poet, fiction writer, and translator were foundational in the development of Modern Macedonian literature.

The only world he cared for was poetry.

There’s no consistently iambic verse in the May issue, but there is—as always—form. 

Two poetry collections reckon with the grief of losing a mother.

Noemi Press values the daring, nurturing, guerilla, and extra nature of poetry, prioritizing publishing poetry that challenges, teaches, develops, and nourishes.

An interview with Jack White.

Michael Ondaatje is best known as a novelist, but his poems attest to his career-long instinct for invention.  

Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.

Aris Kian utilizes poetry as performance and a tool for community organizing, abolition, and liberation.

On loving poets through decades of poetry and living.