Lina Bergamini
Post: Announcing Nightboat’s 2023 Poetry Prize Winners!
Announcing the Winners of the Nightboat Poetry Prize! This year we received over 950 submissions to our annual poetry prize. We are excited to announce that the Nightboat editors have chosen three manuscripts for publication in 2025 […]
Post: Azad Ashim Sharma Tour to Celebrate Boiled Owls
03/28/24 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 5-6.30 PM Memorial Union Room. 242. With Jacqueline Balderrama, Cecilia Savala, and in conversation with Susan Nguyen 03/30/24 BROOKLYN, NYC, 7-9 PM Word Is Change Bookstore. […]
Post: An Interview with Hannah Levene, author of Greasepaint
Below is a conversation between Dante Silva and Hannah Levene to discuss Hannah’s dazzling debut novel Greasepaint. Greasepaint is the portrait of a community staged in a never ending Friday […]
Post: Nightboat at AWP 2024
We’re delighted to announce that we will be returning to AWP this February! We hope you will join us at these offsite events or visit our booth #1516 to get […]
Post: An Interview With Benjamin Friedlander, Co-Editor of Nice: Collected Poems
David Melnick (1938-2022) is remembered as one of the outstanding provocateurs of twentieth-century poetry, a poet “suffocated by meaning,” one who read in glittering platform heels with a glass of […]
Post: Announcing the 2023 Prose Reading Period Selections
This year we received hundreds of submissions to our Prose Reading Period. We are excited to announce that we are accepting two manuscripts for publication! Read more about each of […]
Post: An Interview With Chris Daniels, Translator of One Impossible Step
“My most childish dream is to be translated,” wrote Orides Fontela (b. 1940 in São João da Boa Vista, in the interior of São Paulo). “It’s completely silly, of course. […]
Post: Nightboat signs on to PACBI
Joining with many other poetry and arts organizations, Nightboat Books is signing on to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). This means we will not collaborate […]
Post: An Interview with Jasmine Gibson, Author of A Beauty Has Come
Jasmine Gibson and I first met and collaborated on a performance project in 2019. Since then, we’ve read together, celebrated and dreamed together. From stages to zoom rooms, I’ve had […]
Post: An Interview With Jon L Pitt, Translator of Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
Hirmoi Ito is one of Japan’s most prominent contemporary writers, and has been since her debut, Kusaki no sora (translated into English as The Plants and the Sky). Her work […]
Post: An Interview With Douglas A. Martin
Photo Credit: Bobby Abate Happiest of birthdays to one of Nightboat’s own, Douglas A. Martin! To celebrate their 50th, we had a conversation with the renowned poet, novelist, scholar, and […]
Post: An Interview With Brian Teare, Author Of Poem Bitten By A Man
Brian Teare’s Poem Bitten By A Man—published today—collages the work of Agnes Martin, Jasper Johns, and others whose work is part of a broader conversation (on art, affect, and all […]