Interviews
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 […]
Post: An Interview with Aurora Mattia, Author of Unsex Me Here
If Aurora Mattia’s first book, The Fifth Wound, is an autobiography as vision, her latest work Unsex Me Here—which came out this past April—offers itself as an autobiography of vision. […]
Post: An Interview with Aaron Shurin, Author of Elixir
Aaron Shurin’s Elixir: New and Selected Poems, out now from Nightboat—and which follows Unbound and The Blue Absolute—collects his work at the forefront of publishing, politics, and poetics. From the […]
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 […]