Eleni Stecopoulos in conversation with Miranda Mellis at City Lights to celebrate the publication of Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing by Eleni Stecopoulos, published by Nightboat Books. Eleni Stecopoulos is a poet, essayist, and critic. A new book of essays, Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing, is out from Nightboat […]
Celebrate the launch of Oliver Baez Bender's Consider the Rooster at The Word Is Change on Friday, November 1. Oliver will be joined by Jenny Johnson, Urayoán Noel, and Yesenia Montilla. "This visionary book of queer ecological thought asks: how can we make a home when home is a harm? In the face of colonialism, capitalism, […]
Celebrate the launch of Funto Omojola's If I Gather Here and Shout at Molasses Books, Tuesday, November 12 at 8PM.
Poets Samiya Bashir and Funto Omojola will read from their work, then join in conversation, on the occasion of Nightboat Books publishing If I Gather Here and Shout, a "deft, musical debut poetry collection about the disabling effects of illness, rupture, and inheritance—informed both by Yoruba divinatory systems and violent Western medical understandings of the […]
Join Nightboat & Friends at the second iteration of the Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. November 29-30, 2024—beginning at 17:00 Palestinian time. YouTube Link From the organizers: "A coalition of independent presses, poets, writers, and translators will hold a 24-hour Global Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity […]
Join us on Thursday, December 5 for the joint launch of If I Gather Here and Shoutby Funto Omojola and PALM WINE by YATTA. This evening will include an improvisational performance by both artists, followed by a conversation with writer and radio host Riel Bellow. RVSP REQUIRED
Join Nightboat this weekend, Dec. 7-8, at Pioneer Works for the fifth edition of Press Play — "a weekend-long fair of books, records, art, ephemera, talks, and workshops. Come for new ways of reading, listening, creating, and complaining about culture." Say hello at Booth #19!
Don't miss the launch for Bianca Rae Messinger's pleasureis amiracle at Word Is Change February 6th at 7pm with readings by Nora Collen Fulton, Mo Zenia, and Shiv Kotecha.
Don't miss the Brooklyn Launch of Material Witness by Aditi Machado! Saturday, March 1st at 8pm at Molasses Books With readings by Jimin Seo and Imani Elizabeth Jackson
“If an utterance is a curve,” Mónica de la Torre writes in “Parable,” the second poem from her new collection Pause the Document, “all of its points are at an equal but growing distance from its focus.” Written amidst the upheavals of the pandemic, the poems in Pause the Document play with language and its […]
