Interviews
Post: An Interview With Dawn Lundy Martin, Author of Instructions for The Lovers
“What is the opposite of devastation?” Dawn Lundy Martin asks in Instructions for The Lovers (out now from Nightboat). Her answers are both thorough and tender, having been conceived through […]
Post: An Interview with Julian Carter, Author of Dances of Time and Tenderness
Dances of Time and Tenderness—by Julian Carter, out today from Nightboat—is concerned with what Carter terms “the trans promise: what we do with our bodies changes worlds.” It’s an amalgamation […]
Post: An Interview with Lauren Cook, Author of Sex Goblin
A boy makes a suit out of fur for the first day of high school. An adult softball player is considered “lesbian royalty.” A woman is surgically attached to her […]
Post: An Interview with Johannes Göransson, Translator of Lonespeech
Lonespeech is a writing through (or into, around, against) the correspondence between poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, the two of whom had an infamously fraught relationship to language. Jäderlund […]
Post: An Interview with Joyelle McSweeney, Author of Death Styles
There’s an arbitrary, arguably American distinction between style and survival. Joyelle McSweeney’s Death Styles—out today from Nightboat—makes the argument that the two are inseparable. The poems craft a portrait of loss and livelihood, […]
Post: An Interview with Azad Ashim Sharma, Author of Boiled Owls
Boiled Owls—by Azad Ashim Sharma, out today from Nightboat Books—interrogates our narratives of addiction and recovery, as it imagines other possibilities for life and collectivity. What would it mean to […]
Post: An Interview with Laura Henriksen, Author of Laura’s Desires
“What do you want?” is a difficult question to answer. Laura’s Desires—by Laura Henriksen, out today from Nightboat—makes a rigorous attempt. What comes forth is an appropriately playful, phantasmagoric set […]
Post: An Interview with Nora Treatbaby, Author of Our Air
Adelita Husni-Bey describes Our Air—out today from Nightboat—as “Delphic, ecstatic, erotic, mystical, riotous, erudite.” I would only add the word hilarious. Nora Treatbaby is our lodestar in a strange, hellish landscape, […]
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: 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: 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: 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 […]