Past Events

Join us on Friday, September 17, at 7pm ET for a *virtual* reading by Villainy author Andrea Abi-Karam, NM Esc, Sahar Khraibani, Andrea Lawlor, Eileen Myles, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef. Their second book, Abi-Karam's Villainy answers the call to action for poetry itself to become the radical accomplice it was destined to be, at heart aiming to destroy all levels of hierarchy to establish a participatory, temporary autonomous zone in which the targeted other can thrive. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/andrea-abi-karam-villainy-reading-registration-169536786091 Book: https://nightboat.org/book/villainy/

Please join us on Thursday, September 23, at 7:30pm ET for a *virtual* conversation with Villainy author Andrea Abi-Karam and Randa Jarrar! Abi-Karam's second book, Villainy harnesses street protest as a poetic formation, both embodying direct action and exhibiting the desires that bring queers into public space.   RSVP here: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-andrea-abi-karam-discusses-villainy-randa-jarrar

Please join us on September 29 at 8:00pm ET! In conjunction with the recent publication of CURB, Nightboat author Divya Victor joins Serena Rose Chopra, Kama La Mackerel, Aditi Machado, and Prageeta Sharma for a *virtual* evening of readings and conversation tracing breadths of South Asian diasporic experience. Across a range of inquiries, five poets consider the textual scaffoldings of empire, the human entanglements of production and consumption, and the tenuous, beautiful work of relations to thrive and endure. RSVP: https://www.poetryproject.org/events/south-asian-poets-on-diaspora-kith-with-serena-rose-chopra-kama-la-mackerel-aditi-machado-prageeta-sharma-and-divya-victor. Book: https://nightboat.org/book/curb/.

We hope you can join us Thursday, October 7th at 7:30pm PT/10:30pm ET for a virtual reading featuring Allison Cobb with Clayton Aldern, presented by Town Hall Seattle and Grist!   RSVP here: https://townhallseattle.org/event/allison-cobb-with-clayton-aldern/

Please join us on Saturday, October 16, @ 7:30pm ET for a backyard reading with Hazem Fahmy, Zaina Arafat, Sahar Khraibani, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, and Nightboat author Andrea Abi-Karam. As a creative response to the ongoing political turmoil we keep finding ourselves in, this assemblage of NYC based SWANA writers will convene to deal with the following themes across poetry, prose, lyric, experimental, and hybrid: queerness, desire, grief, placelessness, homes, migration, obsession, addiction, memoriam, resistance, memory, and healing. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/club-lit-backyard-ft-nyc-swana-writers-tickets-184355431057.…

Nightboat Book Launch! A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet’s Novel, edited by Laynie Browne, featuring readings from contributors Traci Brimhall, Lee Ann Brown, Norman Fischer, Sonnet L’Abbé, Cedar Sigo, Brian Teare, and Tyrone Williams. Editor Laynie Browne will host!   RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpf-ypqTojGNArXePq3HVWGidoAQRtdf39

We hope you can join us on Monday, November 22 at 8pm ET for our fall reading, featuring Andrea Abi-Karam, Paolo Javier, Oscar Oswald, Kit Schluter, Olivia Tapiero, and Joey Yearous-Algozin!   RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckfuyuqDspE9dMYhd7-3-IbygF-XZBwRFy