Past Events

We are so excited for Aditi Machado's launch of Emporium (Nightboat Books 2020; winner of the 2019 James Laughlin Award) hosted by Left Bank Books! On Wednesday, October 7th at 8 pm EST / 7 pm CT, Aditi will be reading with Ted Mathys (Gold Cure, Coffee House Press 2020). The event will be streamed on the Left Bank Books facebook live.  Visit their website for more information.

We hope you can join us in celebrating Kazim Ali's new book The Voice of Sheila Chandra (Alice James Books, 2020) with Nightboat authors Gillian Conoley (A Little More Red Sun on the Human, 2019) and Brian Teare (Doomstead Days, 2019).  The event will take place Wednesday, October 7th at 10 pm EST/7 pm PST over zoom. You can find more information here.      

This week, Nightboat author Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué (Oil & Candle, 2016) will be reading with Angel Dominguez, Brian Kim Stefans, CAConrad, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Prageeta Sharma, and Subhaga Crystal Bacon! The event features these 7 poets for $7 and is hosted by Innisfree bookshop and collective.aporia.  Join us on October 16th at 9pm EST!  RSVP here! zoom link will be sent to those who register.

We are so excited to tune into the latest installment of the City Planning Poetics* series (hosted by the Kelly Writers House) for a conversation between Nightboat author Jill Magi (Speech, 2019 and Labor, 2014) and academic Akira Drake Rodriguez! The event will take place Tuesday, October 20th at 6 pm EST on Youtube live!  *Curated by Davy Knittle, City Planning Poetics is a semesterly series that pus poets in conversation with planners, designers, planning historians, and others working in…

We hope you can join us this Thursday, November 19th at 7pm Eastern for a launch of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics edited by Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel, hosted by Topos Bookstore! Here is the lineup: Anaïs Duplan Zavé Martohardjono xtian w V Conaty Cyrée Jarelle Johnson Charles Theonia & co-editors Andrea Abi-Karam + Kay Gabriel RSVP & save the link to join here!

Please join us for a reading to celebrate the lives and work of contributors Sylvia Rivera, Leslie Feinberg, Bryn Kelly, and Lou Sullivan to "We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics." This event will include readings by Gaines Parker, Ellis Martin & Zach Ozma, Ariel Goldberg, Sasha Wortzel's film "This is an Address," Robert Giard's photos of Leslie Feinberg & Minnie Bruce Pratt, and reading of Leslie Feinberg's "Letter To Theresa." Register here for the event. Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel…

We hope you can join us on December 12th at 6pm Pacific! Erica Hunt will deliver The Poetry Center's annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, in its 35th iteration since the inaugural talk in 1985. She will be joined by emcee Tonya M. Foster. Click here for more information & stay tuned for the registration link!

On December 13th a 3PM EST with Innisfree Workshop Series: We will hear readings from: CAConrad, Callie Gardner, Caspar Heinemann, Ian Khara Ellasante, Jaime Townsend, Jimmy Cooper, Jo Barchi & Clara Zornado, José Diaz, Levi Bentley, Nat Raha, Rachel Franklin Wood, and Raquel Salas Rivera. Hosted by the co-editors. RSVP here!