Interviews
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. […]
Post: Grabeland: An Interview with eteam
For a book whose title invokes a function (grabeland means “land for digging”), eteam’s art novel reads like a travelogue, touring the inner exiles of its characters as they test […]
Post: The Making of SPEECH: Reflections on Abu Dhabi, Walking, Weaving, and Poetry
By Jill Magi I live in a high rise building in Abu Dhabi called Sama Tower; sama means “sky” or “heavens” in Arabic. From my writing desk I look down […]
Post: A Little More Red Sun on the Human: Gillian Conoley on Her New and Selected Works
Here at Nightboat we have the pleasure of sharing with you all A Little More Red Sun on the Human, a collection of new and selected poems from Gillian Conoley. […]
Post: The Language of Alisoun: In Conversation with Caroline Bergvall
“The pleasure that people feel about that character, Alisoun, the Wife of Bath, is tied in with her voice, the way she speaks and fights, she just marches on with […]
Post: HULL: An Interview With Xandria Phillips
Someone recently asked me about contemporary queer poets that I would recommend—a considerably hefty question to ask a person, since there are just so many great queer folks truly spearheading […]
Post: We Both Laughed in Pleasure: An Interview With Zach Ozma & Ellis Martin
The product of years of research and collaboration, We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan is the first ever collection of journal entries from the late trans […]
Post: SPEECH: Jill Magi on Method
Abu Dhabi-based poet and artist Jill Magi furnishes SPEECH, her new book-length poem published earlier this month, with layered textures of language, subject, and object, calling at the delineations of […]