Please join us on Friday, February 26th for the 6th High Dawn Reading Series featuring our very own Muriel Leung, who will be reading with Stephon Lawrence. The reading will be held on zoom from 6-7 pm PST / 9-10 EST. Please RSVP here for the zoom link! Hope to see you there!

Nightboat author Jackie Wang reads with Brandon Shimoda virtually at Skylight Books! This event will take place on Crowdcast. Register here to attend live or watch the replay.   March 11, 2021 6 PM PST/9PM EST

6-8 PST, Thursday, March 11, 2021 Please join Open Books and the MFA for Creative Writing and Poetics Cultural Change seminar for a Seattle-area anthology launch of We Want It All: an Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (co-edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel) via Zoom. This reading is open to the public and will be recorded. Please […]

Free, register via Eventbrite here. These events will include live captioning in English. Livestreaming will also occur on Youtube. In the aftermath of a traumatic event(s), how does one shape their practice beyond survival and towards new ways of being? This four-part series will include guests from different artistic disciplines speaking in conversation to examine and unpack what it […]

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 […]

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 […]