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For 50 years, BOA Editions has published poets whose work is dynamic, eclectic, and engaged with the pressing complexities of our times. Since its founding in 1976, BOA has published more than 300 books of American poetry, poetry-in-translation, and short fiction, and its list crosses the typical divisions of the contemporary literary world, comprising writers who innovate in a wide range of modes and forms. Among BOA’s initiatives is the Blessing the Boats Selections, named for the work of BOA author Lucille Clifton, a series that brings the vital work of women of color to broader audiences. At this reading, six BOA poets—India Lena González, Keetje Kuipers, Geffrey Davis, Danni Quintos, Danielle Cadena Deulen, and B.K. Fischer—will read selections that represent the scope of BOA’s diversity across identities, cultural backgrounds, aesthetics, and geographical regions.