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Dear friends, As many of you know, last Friday Nightboat and many literary and arts organizations received news that our 2025 grant from the NEA had been terminated. At the moment, we are uncertain if…

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Jzl Jmz's Local Woman, out now from Nightboat, has been described as "lush, nourishing, [and] celestial." I  would add that it's politically potent (the poems comes form "an anarchist jurisdiction"), and incredibly seductive. In the thick of it is the titular “Local Woman,” an amalgamation of women Jmz embodies. Hers is a womanhood contoured by acrylics, hormones, and the political anxieties of “Amerikka,” in spite of which—or perhaps because of which—she chooses “to see the beauty.” In our conversation below we discuss Local Woman, it's origins, and language—of which Jmz writes, "My language is church meets theater meets Tumblr meets porn category." —Dante…

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