Interviews
Post: An Interview with Samiya Bashir, Author of I Hope This Helps
Eight years after Field Theories—Samiya Bashir’s third book, which won the Oregon Book Award for Poetry—comes I Hope This Helps, out now from Nightboat. Bashir’s work, both individual and collaborative, […]
Post: An Interview with Rosie Stockton, Author of Fuel
Roșie Stockton’s Fuel, out now from Nightboat, works towards and against calamity, both personal and political. In poems shaped by psychoanalytic thought, the pandemic, and petrocapitalism—and punctured by The End—Stockton asks […]
Post: An Interview with Jzl Jmz, Author of Local Woman
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 […]
Post: An Interview with Mónica de la Torre, Author of Pause the Document
Pause the Document is a pause, or a complete rupture, in the workings of Mónica de la Torre’s poetic and political work. We’re asked to consider the documentation of our […]
Post: An Interview with Marcus Clayton, Author of ¡PÓNK!
Marcus Clayton makes his debut with ¡PÓNK!, out now from Nightboat, a genre-defiant testimony of Afrolatino professor and guitarist Moose. He emerges from a South Gate stage surrounded by the […]
Post: An Interview with Naima Yael Tokunow, Editor of Permanent Record
Permanent Record: Poetics Towards the Archive is an interrogation of the archive—its forms, failures, and alternative frequencies—featuring contributions from Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, and others. The editor, Naima Yael Tokunow—Nightboat’s inaugural […]
Post: An Interview with Bianca Rae Messinger, Author of pleasureis amiracle
What are the logics of pleasure? Bianca Rae Messinger’s pleasureis amiracle makes, if not an argument, the architecture of one (contoured by her preoccupations—language, sound, the sacred). “I think one […]
Post: Remembering Michael Burkard (1947-2024)
Nightboat Books mourns the passing of our author and founding advisory board member Michael Burkard, who died on December 23, 2024, at the age of 77. Burkard was the author […]
Post: An Interview with Funto Omojola, Author of If I Gather Here and Shout
Funto Omojola’s If I Gather Here and Shout, out this month from Nightboat Books, places Ifá divination practices alongside incantatory prose poems, to interrogate the concept of illness in a […]
Post: An Interview with Eleni Stecopoulos, Author of Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing
Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing—by Eleni Stecopoulos, out now from Nightboat—intervenes in our cultural, historical, and political narratives around healing, which Stecopoulos imagines as a “collective […]
Post: An Interview with Aditi Machado, Author of Material Witness
Aditi Machado’s Material Witness—out today from Nightboat Books—asks the reader to reconsider the material world around them, to reveal the attachments between human and non-human matters. A flame “kisses you […]
Post: An Interview with Nat Raha, Author of apparitions (nines)
Out today from Nightboat Books, Nat Raha’s apparitions (nines) mixes lament with liberatory outcry. Raha’s poems live in the first-person plural, pushing against “authors who could not / conceive us,” […]