Extra Credit---BOA EVENT

BOA Is Here Virtual Poetry Salon Celebrate National Poetry Month from the comfort of your own living room with BOA's first ever virtual poetry salon! Tune in to hear readings, stories, and more from seven BOA poets with new books from BOA Editions. We hope you'll join us! Event Details Time, Date, Place: 8:00–8:30 PM Eastern, Tuesday, April 28, simultaneous premiere on Facebook and YouTube. Videos will be archived on both platforms for on-demand viewing. Admission: Free, no registration required. Closed captioned. Follow BOA on Facebook to get a reminder or subscribe to our YouTube channel to get a notification when the salon premieres! Featured Poets Diana Marie Delgado is the author of Tracing the Horse (BOA, 2019). Her work is rooted in her experiences growing up Mexican-American, and she is a member of the Canto Mundo and Macondo writing communities. She currently resides in Tucson, where she is the Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona. Deborah Paredez is a poet, performance scholar, and cultural critic whose writing explores the workings of memory, the legacies of war, and feminist elegy. She is the author of Year of the Dog (BOA, 2020). Born and raised in San Antonio, She lives in New York City where she is a professor of creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University. Matt Morton is the author of Improvisation Without Accompaniment (BOA, 2020), which won the 18th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He serves as associate editor for 32 Poems and is a Robert B. Toulouse Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of North Texas. He lives in Dallas, TX. Rick Bursky is the author of Let's Become a Ghost Story (BOA, 2020) and I’m No Longer Troubled By the Extravagance (BOA, 2015). Originally from New York City, Bursky lives in Los Angeles where he works in advertising and teaches poetry in the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program. Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of Rue (BOA, 2020) and the James Laughlin Award-winning The End of Pink (BOA, 2016). After spending many years directing Pleiades Press, she now teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Minnesota and lives with her family in The Twin Cities. John Gallaher is the author of Brand New Spacesuit (BOA, 2020) and In A Landscape (BOA, 2014). He is also the co-author with G.C. Waldrep of Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA, 2011), which was written in collaboration almost entirely through email. He is the co-editor of The Laurel Review and The Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics. He lives in Marysville, Missouri, where he is an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University. Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She is the author of Cyborg Detective (BOA, 2019) and The Book of Goodbyes (BOA, 2013), which won the Isabella Gardner Award and the James Laughlin Award. Weise identifies as a cyborg, and her essays on cyborg identity and disability rights have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. She hosts a series of satirical videos highlighting literary ableism under the persona Tispy Tullivan. Stay tuned to the end of the broadcast for a special treat from BOA's video archives!