Interviews
Post: Tour Dates! A Little More Red Sun on the Human
We’re thrilled to share that Gillian Conoley is going on the road! She will be touring through the fall and into the spring in support of her newest book, A […]
Post: SLINGSHOT: An Interview With Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
At times serrated, at others textured like a bruise, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson’s debut collection SLINGSHOT is resolute in its driving heat while still maintaining Johnson’s sense of humor. The latter of […]
Post: Summer Reading List: Borders
With mass ICE raids of major U.S. cities promised by an ever-intensifying racist administration, major protests at the nations detention centers after reports of astonishingly inhumane conditions and newly […]
Post: Andrew Durbin Remembering Kevin Killian (1952-2019)
Last month, the poetry community lost a dear friend and comrade, an important voice and mentor, with the passing of Kevin Killian, novelist, poet, editor, and reviewer. Killian, along with […]
Post: Sarah Riggs: Five Questions on Etel Adnan’s TIME
This month here at Nightboat we have the pleasure of releasing a new English translation of the beloved and inimitable painter-poet-philosopher Etel Adnan’s “TIME,” orginally written in the French. Born […]
Post: The Faggots & Their Friends: 40 Years Later
In 1977, the radical sounds of a commune near Ithaca, NY resounded from within a little red book: “…there are two important things to remember about the coming revolutions. The […]
Post: “Personal Volcano”: Laura Moriarty Shares From Her Travels
Ahead of the release of the beautiful and devastating Personal Volcano, a collection of ecopoetics that boils form into living igneous before cooling and ultimately erupting again, poet Laura Moriarty […]
Post: “What I Knew”: An Interview With Eleni Sikelianos
Eleni Sikelianos, prolific poet, professor, and author of the new antigrowth epic, What I Knew, was gracious enough to talk with me about the latter’s themes, her travels, the uncapturable, […]
Post: “Action in the Orchards”: Fred Schmalz’s Ekphrasis of Proximity
On his new collection, Action in the Orchards, Fred Schmalz remarks, “…I have resisted the tag ‘ekphrastic’ to describe the poems in the book. Sure, encounters with artworks (sometimes overt, sometimes […]
Post: Chad Sweeney On “Little Million Doors”
Earlier this month, Publishers Weekly said of Chad Sweeney’s stirring new book, Little Million Doors: “Sweeney masters the art of understatement in this book of forthright and delicate poems…What knowledge we […]
Post: jzl jmz’s “The Black Condition ft. Narcissus” Playlist
One of our favorite books this spring at Nightboat is jzl jmz’s The Black Condition ft. Narcissus. By way of the classically fatal beauty Narcissus, jayy has fashioned a collection […]
Post: “Pet Sounds”: An Interview With Stephanie Young
“I wanted to write a love poem that didn’t leave out all the problems, that inhabited this form of address to do other things at the same time: music criticism, […]