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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: Announcing the 2023 Prose Reading Period Selections
This year we received hundreds of submissions to our Prose Reading Period. We are excited to announce that we are accepting two manuscripts for publication! Read more about each 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 […]
Post: An Interview With Jon L Pitt, Translator of Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
Hirmoi Ito is one of Japan’s most prominent contemporary writers, and has been since her debut, Kusaki no sora (translated into English as The Plants and the Sky). Her work […]
Post: An Interview With Douglas A. Martin
Photo Credit: Bobby Abate Happiest of birthdays to one of Nightboat’s own, Douglas A. Martin! To celebrate their 50th, we had a conversation with the renowned poet, novelist, scholar, and […]
Post: An Interview With Brian Teare, Author Of Poem Bitten By A Man
Brian Teare’s Poem Bitten By A Man—published today—collages the work of Agnes Martin, Jasper Johns, and others whose work is part of a broader conversation (on art, affect, and all […]