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Post: Noah Ross on Queer Printed Matter, A History & Archive in the Making
happy publication date to Active Reception! for the nightboat blog, author Noah Ross reflects on the historically significant queer texts that influenced him and the book’s writing. In many […]
Post: Jaye & Santi: a parting conversation
Nightboat Books initiated a new fellowship program in 2020 and was fortunate enough to have two incredible individuals in the position: Jaye Elizabeth Elijah (Spring-Summer) and Santiago Valencia (Fall). They […]
Post: On Emporium: An Interview With Aditi Machado
Aditi Machado’s Emporium is a delectable journey through a modern “silk route” fraught with the consequences of capitalism and globalization, where she unravels and re-entangles the threads of commerce, language, […]
Post: Dear Etel: Sahar Khraibani responds to Shifting the Silence
Etel Adnan’s Shifting the Silence is a meditation on grief, a gentle greeting of death, and an undulating choir of the many lessons and consolations that emerge from the […]
Post: Happy Pub Day to WE WANT IT ALL: an interview with the editors!!!
TODAY IS THE DAY!!! WE WANT IT ALL IS OUT OUT OUT IN THE WORLD!!! We Want It All is an anthology of poems and prose by trans writers […]
Post: Engaging Black Poetics: Authors & Interns Part 2
As a publisher of experimental and genre-bending works, Nightboat is indebted to Black literary and linguistic innovation. Black authors have often been at the forefront of movements that have allowed […]
Post: Echo 3
Resonance* began as a reaction, a response to a global call-to-action, a scrambling to articulate a rapidly changing world. And as we settle into a world in which tumult, turbulence, […]
Post: Engaging Black Poetics: Authors and Interns
Today is Juneteenth. The Civil War had ended years before enslaved people in Texas were notified. With the Black Lives Matter Movement going strong, we acknowledge how much work there […]
Post: Echo 2
An echo is a sound wave a surface reflects. A voice ringing off the walls of a canyon or a cave. How might sound, language, sun, create vibrations similar to […]
Post: Echo 1
We at Nightboat find ourselves reflecting on how in times of crisis, global or not, we turn to the literature of disaster and the disenfranchised. In this language we also […]
Post: people in space by Aldrin Valdez
I’ve been making these small works on paper. A simple way to describe what they depict is: people in space. In each drawing/painting, a figure exists in an ambiguous setting—or […]
Post: Tender Points: An Interview with Amy Berkowitz
Amy Berkowitz’s Tender Points reads as a lyrical essay, with fragments of personal anecdotes, philosophical thought, excerpts from online forums, and as a slow unfolding and investigation into two interconnected traumas. […]