Is the pen mightier than the gun? Poet Matt Donovan finds out in “The Dug-up Gun Museum.”
BOA Editions
Nine new books weโre excited to read this fall
As we enter the curl-up-with-a-good-book months, these recommendations are ripe with intrigue, humor, and escape.
Calendar preview: A Season for Change
A big week of events โ from Black Kids Matter to The Suffragist City Parade โ marks a big time for change here in Rochester.
Calendar preview: Spring screening
While we wait for spring, check out this week’s virtual cultural offerings includes gardens tours to theater, poetry readings, and concerts.
The grown-up book fair
Area literary events this fall highlight local writers and bring the world to Rochester.
BOA Editions celebrates 40 years
BOA Editions’ story began much like that of other creative endeavors: When an intrepid individual identified a lack of opportunity, he went out and created it himself. One of the longest running independent presses in the nation, BOA was founded on July 4, 1976 by Al Poulin Jr., who was a Brockport professor at the […]
Metro Ink 9.7.05
Water, water, everywhere… Forty million people a day (maybe you?) drink from them. They’re a full fifth of the planet’s fresh water. Yet in places — consider Charlotte Beach — the Great Lakes are often not even safe to swim in. Now there’s yet another plan afoot to restore them. A year ago, then-EPA Administrator […]






