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Intergenre, Essay
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell

Ned Asta

Poetry
SLINGSHOT

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Poetry
HULL

Xandria Phillips

Intergenre, Literature / Queer Studies
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan

Ellis Martin

Zach Ozma

Poetry
A Little More Red Sun on the Human

Gillian Conoley

Poetry
Alisoun Sings

Caroline Bergvall

Essay
Hatred of Translation

Nathanaël

Translation, Poetry
The Next Loves

Stéphane Bouquet

Lindsay Turner

Literature / Queer Studies
Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader

Steve Abbott

Jamie Townsend

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September 3, 2019

2019 Nightboat Poetry Prize!

Starting on September 1st, Nightboat Books invites submissions to the 2019 Nightboat Poetry Prize. The winning poet receives $1,000, a standard royalty contract, and 25 free copies of the published book. Finalists are considered for future publication. Judges:…

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September 25, 2019

SPEECH: Jill Magi on Method

Abu Dhabi-based poet and artist Jill Magi furnishes SPEECH, her new book-length poem published earlier this month, with layered textures of language, subject, and object, calling at the delineations of border and sending her…

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