Join us in celebrating the launch of Unsex Me Here by Aurora Mattia at Books Are Magic with Emily Zhou.
"We write to probe and traverse the unknown—the poem a soft, pliable device that Mónica de la Torre and Tonya M. Foster explore through swirling semantic permutations, linguistic turns and leaps positioning the apparatus in closer proximity to the heart. The Poetry Project is thrilled to celebrate the release of their new publications, Pause the […]
“Rats thrive in sewers” Samiya Bashir writes in I Hope This Helps, a new genre-bending book drawing on her 2024 exhibition of the same name at The Africa Center, “so maybe I’m thriving.” Across poetry, essays, music, printmaking, and photography, Bashir reflects on decades of artistic metamorphosis within and beyond the limits of reality, time, […]
When living under a state of permanent crisis, containment is shattered, the self is made brutally porous to air, ashes, and rents too high to afford. Yet our attachment to destruction runs unforgivingly deep. When Dawn Lundy Martin and Rosie Stockton speak of love, they speak of its blooming contradictions. Between sweet surrender and the […]
In celebration of our 20th anniversary year, Nightboat Books is thrilled to collaborate on three upcoming events with Tally Ho! Books in Oakland, California. Thursday, May 15th at 7pm don't miss Laura Moriarty & Eric Sneathen Tally Ho! Books is Oakland’s newest independent bookstore. Their vision: “an uncompromising commitment to labor justice, accessibility, community involvement, […]
Nightboat Books and The David Wojnarowicz Foundation present a reading and celebration of David Wojnarowicz’s Memories That Smell Like Gasoline, the last book he wrote before his AIDS-related death. David Michael Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) came to prominence in New York in the 1980s, part of a cohort of East Village artists including Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Karen […]
Don't miss Samiya Bashir, author of I Hope This Helps, in the Brave, Unbodied Scheme series at McNally Jackson!
Aaron Shurin launches Elixir: New and Selected Poems at Et al., in conversation with Eric Sneathen.
Jzl Jmz launches Local Woman with Callum Angus, author of A Natural History of Transition. Enter: Local Woman, an archetypal figure, fresh from the forest into the streets of Portland, Oregon. She is a Black trans woman, seeking survival and satisfaction, giving seduction, disenfranchisement, and the contradictions of femme womanhood a face, body, and soul. […]
We'll be tabling at the Deep Water Independent Book Fair! The 2nd Annual Book Fair brings together independent presses who play a pivotal role in shaping the current literary landscape. Come browse this year’s selections of recent releases. The exhibiting publishers’ rich catalogs include genre-defying works, celebrated authors, as well as underrepresented writers. Curated by […]
