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 […]
We hope you can join Nightboat Books on May 6th at 8pm ET for a gathering around CURB by Divya Victor! Readers and performers include editors, elders, family, friends and Divya's poetry community who helped bring CURB to life. RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpceGhpz0rGdMn3I9pvgl3AnxTMK4oSCg0
We hope you can join us on Thursday, May 13th at 6:30pm EDT for our launch of Plastic: An Autobiography by Allison Cobb, who will be joined by CAConrad and Sawako Nakayasu! RSVP here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrduGgrjgoE9azDRbgE3Xy-e25_oNI4nF1
Please join us on Wednesday, May 19 @ 7pm EST at St. Mark's Church! In celebration of her monumental new selection, Jump the Clock, Erica Hunt will be reading with Charles Bernstein, Tonya M. Foster, Sawako Nakayasu, and Simone White. Find more info on The Poetry Project's event page here. Book: https://nightboat.org/book/jump-the-clock/
We hope you can join us Saturday, May 22nd @ 2pm PT/5pm ET! Skylight Books is hosting a *virtual* reading featuring Rosie Stockton (author of Permanent Volta) in conversation with Hannah Black! RSVP here.
