The Poetry Project is proud to join Nightboat in celebrating the republication of Akilah Oliver’s beloved book, the she said dialogues: flesh memory, a collection of poems which – 20 years on – continue to sustain us with new, essential, and prescient force in their investigation of “the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both […]
Poets Erika Meitner (Holy Moly Carry Me), Kiki Petrosino (White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia), and Brian Teare (Doomstead Days) read from their newest collections, highly-acclaimed poetry that speaks to contemporary life, working through history, genealogical roots, environmental crises, loss, and more, finding ways to understand and live and breathe. As part of the all-virtual 2021 Virginia Festival of the […]
Please join us on Tuesday, March 30th at 7pm Eastern as we celebrate the recent releases of four Nightboat titles by Carrie Hunter (Vibratory Milieu), Jackie Wang (The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void), Asiya Wadud (No Knowledge is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body), and Noah Ross (Active Reception)! Find more […]
You don't want to miss this special edition of Gibney’s Living Gallery, celebrating the launch of All the Rage! The event takes place April 9th from 7 PM – 8:00 PM virtually. The featured readers alongside Rosamond S. King are Gabrielle Civil, Purvi Shah, Candace Thompson-Zachery, Cynthia Oliver, Bianca Nedjée, and Tyehimba Jess. RSVP here!
The Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University would like to invite you to join All the Rage: Black Creativity in Pandemic Time on Thursday, April 15th at 5:30pm EST. We will explore how Black queer writers have been able to weave pleasure and joy into not only their […]
Please join Belladonna* on Sunday, April 18th at 3pm ET for a marathon reading and celebration of the recent republication of the she said dialogues: flesh memory on what would have been Akilah Oliver's 60th birthday. With readings by Erica Hunt, Danielle Brazell, Michelle T. Clinton, Kim Oliver, Rachel Zolf, Steven Taylor, Fanny Ferreira, Jennifer Firestone, S*an D. Henry Smith, […]
Nightboat author Rosamond S. King will be reading for Remotely Personal Greetings (the Zoom version of Greetings Readings) on April 22, 2021 at 8:30 PM on Zoom. The link will be sent to Greetings Readings' mailing list--to subscribe, please contact Greetings Readings' hosts.
This evening gives us two writers who take the world on in all its present tumult, and do so with unflinching, open-eyed intensity, engaging in conversation to celebrate the launch of Allison Cobb’s Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat). National Book Award-winning poet Daniel Borzutzky, author of the recent Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, will be part of […]
As Nightboat Books celebrates its 15th anniversary, this reading presents just a few of the books published in 2020 and 2021 that engage nuanced and inventive approaches to crucial contemporary issues. Each of these books implicitly expands the range of approaches to such issues and suggests pertinent and previously unexplored connections among them. The modes […]
Allison Cobb in conversation with Camille Dungy about her book, Plastic: An Autobiography. "Plastic: an Autobiography is a spinning gyre of history, biology, poetry, and chemistry, gathering centripetal force through attention to such particulars as a shard of plastic from WWII found lodged in the belly of an albatross sixty years later. This is a fierce […]
