Interviews
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, […]
Post: “Doomstead Days”: An Interview with Brian Teare
Brian Teare’s new collection Doomstead Days figures itself an oblong baritone shape, a cargo ship of poems and various other fuels barrelling towards us. Opening with the […]
Post: Kathleen Fraser (1935-2019)
Kathleen Fraser, beloved poet, essayist, and professor of writing at San Francisco State University, died on February 5, 2019, in Emeryville, California, of natural causes. Known for her remarkable body of […]