Interviews
Post: An Interview with Antonio Ochoa, Author of Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo
Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo is Antonio Ochoa’s first bilingual collection, a work that moves in spirals of “oscillation between hemispheres,” between poetry and prose, between Spanish […]
Post: An Interview with imogen smith, Author of raw & zero
imogen smith’s evanescent second collection raw & zero enters the world “in an epoch of pandemic, genocide, mass war, poverty, corruption, & environmental destruction,” yet “in the center there is […]
Post: An Interview with Tisa Bryant, Author of Residual
In Residual, Tisa Bryant weaves together memories, scenes from the life of her late mother, and her own research into the lives of other Black women writers and artists into […]
Post: An Interview with Yongyu Chen, Author of Perennial Counterpart
In Perennial Counterpart, Yongyu Chen’s debut poetry collection, reading, like friendship, is “a way of life.” With an elliptical, contemplative voice and a scholar’s critical disposition, Chen attends to all […]
Post: An Interview with Soham Patel, Author of The Daughter Industry
Soham Patel’s The Daughter Industry is at once an imagined performance, hauntological confession, and polyvocal chorus. The cast of “players” includes Sasmita (“limber, gender-fluid, jesterlike”), Sajani (a “venerated femme mother”), […]
Post: An Interview with Noa Micaela Fields, Author of E
In E, Noa Micaela Fields takes on Louis Zukofsky’s monumental long poem “A,” placing it in the register of the trans-autobiographical. Working in, and against, the tradition of homophonic translation, […]
Post: An Interview with Charlie Porter, Author of Nova Scotia House
Nova Scotia House, Charlie Porter’s first novel, is at once a political manifesto, a portal into the (not so distant) past, and the profoundly moving portrait of a relationship, and […]
Post: An Interview with Sophia Dahlin, Author of Glove Money
Sophia Dahlin’s new book, Glove Money, out today from Nightboat, is a collection of love poems that originates from the dating show of your own design: “I felt that dating […]
Post: An Interview with Kay Gabriel, Author of Perverts
What makes a pervert? What unmakes one? “I want people to notice the libidinal charge of the term,” Kay Gabriel writes. “Which, of course, means that it’s fun to say, […]
Post: An Interview with Edward Salem, Author of Monk Fruit
Monk Fruit, Edward Salem’s debut, is out now from Nightboat—published poignantly, as he remarks, on Refaat al-Areer’s birthday. The poems, written from a Palestinian-American perspective, move between absurdist images, memories, […]
Post: An Interview with Miranda Mellis, Author of Crocosmia
Miranda Mellis’ Crocosmia, out now from Nightboat, starts at the “end,” a concept she troubles (the “end,” of course, continues to happen). The novel recounts the protagonist’s childhood during the […]
Post: An Interview with Laura Moriarty, Author of Which Walks
Laura Moriarty’s Which Walks, out now from Nightboat, confronts aging and its discontents with the old adage, “If you leave off you are lost.” Walking, and “witchiness” (“I’ve hosted a […]